Collapsible container for housing and carriage of pets
OwnerDelena K. Bishop, Janet Vetalyinventors
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Abstract
A somewhat curvilinear, four-sided pyramidal container is disclosed for housing and carriage of small household pets. The container provides a flexible fabric cover which defines optionally coverable mesh windows and an optionally coverable openable access door structure. The container carries a rigid bottom insert and is supported by a rod frame having a square, releasably intrerconnected bottom element formed of four interconnected semi-rigid rods and two arched, resiliently deformable support rods extending upwardly between opposed corners of the structure, all said rods carried in loops defined on the inner surface of the cover. The support rods are selectively removable to allow assembly and collapse of the structure for storage.
Claims6
A container for housing, confining and carrying small domestic pets comprising, in combination:
- a flexible pyramidally shaped peripheral cover having a bottom, similar upstanding sides and an apex portion, one of said sides defining an access orifice having an openable closure door, said cover having
- a plurality of inwardly extending frame rod loops carried in spaced relationship along each pyramidal edge, with at least one frame loop at the bottom of each pyramidal side edge, and
- strap means in the apex portion of said cover and extending therefrom to aid carriage;
- a planar rigid bottom element of peripheral size and configuration similar to the bottom element of the peripheral cover, said rigid bottom element carried immediately upwardly adjacent the peripheral cover bottom;
- a frame structure having four elongate flexible bottom rods extending through frame rod loops defined at the edges between the bottom and sides of the peripheral cover, said bottom rods releasably joined by corner connectors in planar array substantially similar to the periphery of the rigid bottom element and two elongate arched rods extending, through the frame rod loops defined at the edges between peripheral cover sides, diagonally from one bottom corner to an opposite corner.
A collapsible container for housing, confinement and transport of small domestic pets comprising, in combination:
- a flexible fabric peripheral cover having a square bottom and four similar triangular sides forming an enclosed four-sided pyramidal structure with upstanding apex,
- a first of said triangular sides defining an access orifice covered by a closure door vertically divided into two similar portions releasably joinable along adjacent vertical edges, each of said closure door portions carried by adjacent edges of the peripheral cover defining the access orifice, except at a bottom of the access orifice,
- at least another of said triangular sides defining a window orifice covered by a mesh element therein and having an associated openable cover, carried by the peripheral cover adjacent the window orifice, and
- each of the edges between triangular sides defining plural spaced frame rod loops extending inwardly into a chamber defined by the peripheral cover, each of said frame rod loops defining a channel to supportably receive a frame rod, and
- strap means carried in two adjacent side seams adjacent the peripheral cover apex with a loop handle extending outwardly from the peripheral cover and strap ends extending inwardly from said cover to define a frame loop support at each end immediately adjacent the inner surface of the peripheral cover;
- a rigid bottom plate having peripheral configuration similar to the square bottom of the peripheral cover, said bottom plate carried on an inner surface of the square bottom of the peripheral cover;
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- a frame to support the peripheral cover in a erected pyramidal shape, said frame having
- four resiliently deformable elongate bottom support rods carried in frame rod loops along each edge between each side element and the bottom element, adjacent ends of said bottom support rods releasably interconnected by connecting elements and said rods having a length to form a configuration substantially coincident with the periphery of the rigid bottom plate, and
- two resiliently deformable elongate arched support rods carried in the frame rod loops along each of seams diagonally extending from one pyramidal corner to the apex and thence to the opposite corner to support the peripheral cover in an erected pyramidal configuration.
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