Poultry housing system connector
AssigneeFarmer Automatic GmbH & Co KG
InventorsArno Winter, Henrik Frahling
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Abstract
A cage connector for connecting two mesh panels of a poultry cage. The connector includes two elongated members which are hingedly connected together and which are releasably fastenable to each other, so that mesh parts from each panel are connected by placing the parts between the members and fastening the members to each other. At least one member has a tab which projects transversely to the longitudinal axis of the member in the same plane, or a plane parallel to the surface of the plane of the member.
Claims13
A cage system for animal housing having an opening for entry and exit from the cage system, said opening defined by a frame having two opposing vertical pillars and said opening comprising a door wherein the door comprises at least two mesh panels which extend across the opening between the vertical pillars, said panels forming a surface having a vertical plane covering at least part of the opening when the door is in a closed position and which are moved into a horizontal plane when the door is in an opened position,
- wherein the at least two panels are connected by a cage connector, wherein said connector comprises:
- two elongated members which are hingedly connected and releasably fastenable to each other, so that mesh parts from each panel are connected by placing the parts between the members and fastening the members to each other, wherein at least one member has a tab which projects transversely to the longitudinal axis of the member;
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- wherein the tab of the cage connector abuts at least one vertical pillar when the door is in the closed position to prevent opening of the door by a panel being pushed outwards from inside the cage system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.