Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Often portable – small capacity – roofed housing structure
Patent
1995-06-12
1997-09-23
Price, Thomas
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Often portable, small capacity, roofed housing structure
A01K 103
Patent
active
056693311
ABSTRACT:
A pet housing expansible to hold a pet and collapsible to suitcase size for manual transport includes a pair of platforms and first and second pairs of spaced walls. The walls in the first pair (e.g. front and rear walls) are pivotably attached at opposite ends to the platforms and are hinged at intermediate positions for collapse and expansion. The walls in the second pair (e.g. side walls) are pivotable toward an individual one of the platforms with the platform as a fulcrum to collapse the housing and toward the other platform to expand the housing. In the collapsed housing disposition, detents on opposite sides of the hinge on the first pair of walls releasably engage to maintain the housing collapsed. A manually grippable handle on one of the platforms provides for a transport of the collapsed housing. With the walls in the first pair expanded, detents on the walls in the first and second pairs of housings releasably engage to maintain the expanded housing enclosure. A second handle on one of the platforms is manually grippable to provide for the housing transport in the expanded relationship. Third detents provide for a releasable closing and opening, preferably on a vertical axis, of a door in one of the second pair of walls. The walls in the first and second pairs are preferably formed from gratings of spaced wires to minimize weight and to provide a circulation of air through the housing from the atmosphere in the expanded housing.
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Price Thomas
Roston Ellsworth R.
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