Pigeon cage assembly

A fully automatic cage assembly for pigeons and the like, comprising a plurality of stalls in stacked relationship arranged in a plurality of vertical rows, a unitary front door panel means slidably mounted vertically, one of said door panel means for each of said vertical rows for covering said plurality of stalls in a vertical row, a back for covering the rear of said cage assembly, a plurality of stops, one for each stall, fastened securely to said front door panel means, extending inwardly from said front door panel means, and electrically controlled arresting means at the bottom of each vertical column of stalls, operated at timed intervals so that said door panel means will be intermittently lowered to expose at least one stall at a time in a said vertical row, at timed intervals, said arresting means being in the form of an electro-magnetic solenoid at the bottom of each vertical column of stalls, each having an armature which normally extends outwardly in the path of the stops projecting in the stalls, and whereby, when energized, the armature is withdrawn to allow one stop at each solenoid energization to move downwardly past the end of the armature, means which immediately urges the said armature back out to the stop position as soon as the stop drops past the end of the armature, the said strip again being arrested as the next higher stop drops down to hit the solenoid armature a uniform time interval between each solenoid energization creating separate openings of each stall.