Cat scratching post
AssigneeLawrence Peska Associates, Inc.
InventorA. Donald Mullin
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Abstract
A cat scratching post for cats and kittens to scratch and to climb, so that they avoid climbing and tearing furniture. It includes a supporting frame and a main climbing and scratching body portion normally held at an angle to the vertical wall of a room so that the cat or kitten can easily climb it, the body portion being formed of a main backing plate in the form of a wide channel, with a series of vertically stacked corrugated cardboard sheets extending out of the channel and secured adhesively or otherwise therein, so that the cats can climb up and scratch the stacked corrugated cardboard sheets.
Claims8
A cat scratching post device comprising a main backing plate, a plurality of stacked, planar climbing sheets disposed on said main backing plate and extending outwardly therefrom and support means, said support means comprising a wall plate secured to said main backing plate, bottom flange bracket means carried by said wall plate for extending outwardly from a room wall, and upper wall engaging means carried by said wall plate at its upper end portion for engaging the upper portion of said wall plate directly to said room wall, and bottom flange bracket means constraining said wall plate into an angular deviation relative to the verticality of said room wall, whereby said main climbing and scratching means is supported in an inclined disposition out of the vertical for facilitating scratching and climbing thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.