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US 5,937,792 AGranted
Pet shelter construction
OwnerLee D. Madridinventor
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Abstract
A pet shelter construction 10 including a floor unit 11 having a solar heat reservoir 22 raised above the ground by runner elements 24 and supporting a concrete floor pad 20 which in turn supports an enclosure unit 12 having an enlarged window 38 formed in the southern wall panel 30 of the enclosure unit 12 for receiving solar energy and a moveable roof unit 13 dimensioned to selectively overlie the southern 30 and northern 31 wall panels of the enclosure unit 12 to vary the amount of solar energy transmitted through the enlarged window 38.
Claims6
A pet shelter comprising:
- a raised floor unit including a concrete pad operatively associated with a plurality of runner elements for raising the concrete floor pad above the level of the ground;
- an enclosure unit resting on the floor unit and including an enlarged rectangular front wall panel, a smaller rectangular rear wall panel, and a pair of opposed side wall panels having rearwardly angled tops wherein the upper portion of the side wall panels are provided with tracks and wherein one of the side wall panels is provided with a pet access door;
- a moveable roof unit including an elongated roof member which is dimensioned to overlie all of said wall panels and selectively extend substantially beyond the front and rear wall panels respectively, wherein said roof member is slidably disposed on said tracks for moving the roof member from a substantially overhanging relationship relative to the front wall panel and to the rear wall panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.