Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Birdhouse
Patent
1997-03-14
1998-04-21
Price, Thomas
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Birdhouse
A01K 3100, A01K 3900
Patent
active
057407622
ABSTRACT:
A multi-compartment bird shelter that may be assembled with a minimum of mechanical fasteners and which may be assembled as a multi-tiered structure is disclosed. The shelter is supported, by a support flange, on a vertical pole and includes a plurality of individual compartment modules that are pie shaped with vertical divergingly spaced walls and a bottom surface. A spacer element place coaxially over the pole is larger than the pole so as to define a gap between the pole and the spacer element. The spacer element rests upon the support flange, and individual compartment modules are coupled to the pole by inserting a hook structure of the module into the gap defined between the pole and the spacer element. A plurality of like sized and shaped modules are arranged around the pole in side-by-side fashion and are similarly coupled to the pole so as to define a tier of compartments. Subsequent tiers of compartments may be similarly assembled atop existing tiers. A roof structure is place over the topmost tier with the pole extending through a hole in the center of the roof. The roof structure secures the shelter in place and is itself held in place with a removable clamp that is attached to the pole above the roof. According to one feature of the disclosed shelter, individual compartment modules may be converted between a bird house configuration and a bird feeder configuration by coupling appropriate front panels to the front of the compartment module.
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patent: 3295498 (1967-01-01), Brown
patent: 3496913 (1970-02-01), Vail
patent: 3804066 (1974-04-01), Lowe
patent: 4632061 (1986-12-01), Tucker et al.
Price Thomas
Stamina Products Inc.
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