Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Often portable – small capacity – roofed housing structure
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-15
2001-02-06
Carone, Michael J. (Department: 3643)
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Often portable, small capacity, roofed housing structure
C119S501000, C119S161000, C312S285000, C312S265600, C312S237000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06182612
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to cat cabinets and houses and more particularly pertains to a new cat cabinet for providing a location for a cat to go for various reasons including to hide, to eat and to use a litter box.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of cat cabinets and houses is known in the prior art. More specifically, cat cabinets and houses heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,544,958; U.S. Pat. No. 5,769,026; U.S. Pat. No. 5,050,536; U.S. Pat. No. 5,738,040; U.S. Pat. No. 4,021,975; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,872,832.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new cat cabinet. The inventive device includes a housing with an open top, a bottom panel and a perimeter side wall upwardly extending around the bottom panel. The perimeter side wall includes a spaced apart pair of end panels, and a spaced apart pair of side panels extending between the end panels. A top panel substantially covers the open top of the housing. A shelf is disposed in the housing and spaced above the bottom panel. A first of the side panels has a plurality of access doors pivotally coupled thereto to provide access into the housing through the first side panel. The perimeter side wall also has a plurality of removable punchouts which form corresponding passage holes through the perimeter side wall when separated from the perimeter side wall.
In these respects, the cat cabinet according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a location for a cat to go for various reasons including to hide, to eat and to use a litter box.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of cat cabinets and houses now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new cat cabinet construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a location for a cat to go for various reasons including to hide, to eat and to use a litter box.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new cat cabinet apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the cat cabinets and houses mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new cat cabinet which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art cat cabinets and houses, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a housing with an open top, a bottom panel and a perimeter side wall upwardly extending around the bottom panel. The perimeter side wall includes a spaced apart pair of end panels, and a spaced apart pair of side panels extending between the end panels. A top panel substantially covers the open top of the housing. A shelf is disposed in the housing and spaced above the bottom panel. A first of the side panels has a plurality of access doors pivotally coupled thereto to provide access into the housing through the first side panel. The perimeter side wall also has a plurality of removable punchouts which form corresponding passage holes through the perimeter side wall when separated from the perimeter side wall.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new cat cabinet apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the cat cabinets and houses mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new cat cabinet which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art cat cabinets and houses, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new cat cabinet which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new cat cabinet which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new cat cabinet which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such cat cabinet economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cat cabinet which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new cat cabinet for providing a location for a cat to go for various reasons including to hide, to eat and to use a litter box.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cat cabinet which includes a housing with an open top, a bottom panel and a perimeter side wall upwardly extending around the bottom panel. The perimeter side wall includes a spaced apart pair of end panels, and a spaced apart pair of side panels extending between the end panels. A top panel substantially covers the open top of the housing. A shelf is disposed in the housing and spaced above the bottom panel. A first of the side panels has a plurality of access doors pivotally coupled thereto to provide access into the housing through the first side panel. The perimeter side wall also has a plurality of removable punchouts which form corresponding passage holes through the perimeter side wall when separated from the perimeter side wall.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new cat cabinet that may have wheels to permit rolling to different locations.
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Bergin James S.
Carone Michael J.
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