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US 10,791,703 B2Granted
Wall element for an animal cage
AssigneeBrueggli
InventorsMarco Stoffel, Benjamin Bachmann, Arno Lenzi, Nico Spinelli, Remo Sommer
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Abstract
The invention relates to a wall element (6) for an animal cage (1), particularly for a dog cage, particularly for housing an animal in the luggage compartment of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle. According to the invention, the wall element (6) comprises at least one elastically compressible cavity in order to increase the level of safety of said animal cage (1) in the event of a crash.
Claims18
An animal cage comprising:
- four extruded profiles on a cage wall which form a rectangle and include a horizontal extruded profile and an upright extruded profile;
- a longitudinal groove on each of the tour extruded profiles;
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- a wall element for improving crash safety, which is rectangular, is fitted between the four extruded profiles and comprises side edges and at least one elastically compressible cavity configured to increase a crash safety of the animal cage,
- wherein:
- a) each of the side edges of the wall element forms a tongue of a tongue-and-groove connection with the longitudinal groove of a corresponding one of the four extruded profiles;
- b) a metal insert is arranged at an end of the horizontal extruded profile for connection to the upright extruded profile;
- c) the metal insert has three tines which project substantially parallel to one another from the metal insert;
- d) a central tine of the three tines engages axially in a cavity of the horizontal extruded profile;
- e) two outer tines of the three tines engage axially in two opposite longitudinal grooves of the horizontal extruded profile;
- and
- f) the metal insert is connected to the upright extruded profile adjacent thereto.
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