Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Often portable – small capacity – roofed housing structure
Patent
1996-04-26
1998-03-17
Hirsch, Paul J.
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Often portable, small capacity, roofed housing structure
119497, 119501, A01K 100
Patent
active
057275017
ABSTRACT:
A dog house apparatus includes a four-cornered base unit, a plurality of walls supported by the base unit, and a roof supported by the walls. An entrance opening is located in one of the walls. The entrance opening includes a bottommost aperture portion, a far lateral aperture portion, a topmost aperture portion, and a near lateral aperture portion. The wall which includes the entrance opening includes a near wall half and a far wall half. The entrance opening is entirely included in the near wall half. The bottommost aperture portion of the entrance opening is spaced above the base unit by a vertical offset distance. An overhead entrance cover is connected to the entrance-including wall at a location on the wall above the topmost aperture portion of the entrance opening. The overhead entrance cover slopes downward and away from the entrance opening. A pair of lateral entrance covers are connected to the entrance-containing wall adjacent to the entrance opening. The base unit includes a plurality of wall connectors. Each of the walls includes one or more base connectors which are selectively engageable with and disengageable from the wall connectors. A quantity of floor covering material can be placed on top of the base unit, and the floor covering material has a maximum floor covering thickness which is smaller than the vertical offset distance of the entrance opening from the base unit. The walls slope away from the roof towards the base unit.
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