Animal furniture
AssigneeAlliance Pet Supply Company Limited
InventorIvy Y. C. Lee
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Abstract
Bird cage furniture comprises a number of interconnecting parts including ladder sections 10 and 11, apertured nodal bodies 12, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 19, linking members 20, feet 22, 23, 24 and 25, and a feeding trough 26. The parts are readily assembled into the configuration shown, or other configurations, by entering and gripping ends of the ladder sections, the linking members and tops of the feet into different apertures in the bodies 12 to 19. The feet 22 and 23 have their bases gripped between adjacent wires of a wire mesh wall of a cage. The furniture can be readily disassembled for removing its parts from the cage, for cleaning and so on.
Claims8
Animal furniture for a wire mesh animal cage comprising a plurality of interconnecting parts, including
- ladder sections each having sides which extend beyond rungs of the ladder sections,
- a plurality of nodal bodies each of which includes a plurality of apertures, at least one of said apertures being adapted to receive a portion of one of the sides of the ladder sections,
- rigid link members which fit into other of said apertures of the nodal bodies to hold the nodal bodies together, and
- feet which connect to the nodal bodies, in which the interconnecting parts are arranged to be readily and differently assembled to form chosen configurations for use in the cage.
Apparatus for use within a mesh animal cage, said apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of anchor elements each including cage engagement means for releasably attaching said anchor elements to the mesh cage;
- a plurality of nodal bodies each including attachment means for releasably attaching said nodal body to an anchor element in one of a plurality of possible respective orientations;
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- a plurality of elongated members each including nodal body attachment means on at least one end thereof for releasably attaching said elongated member to said attachment means of a nodal body in one of a plurality of possible respective orientations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.