Bird cage

A bird cage comprising:

• a movable carriage having a set of carriage corner posts,
• an enclosure having spaced apart bar-formed walls connected by a set of enclosure corner posts carried on said carriage corner posts,
• a bottom tray slidably carried by said carriage below a bottom wall of said enclosure walls,
• a seed deflection screen including a pair of side panels having fastening elements respectively fitting in openings in said carriage corner posts to proximately align a bottom edge of each said side panel with a respective sidewall of said bottom tray and locate said side panels in an upward and outward extending position on opposite sides of said cage, and a front and a rear panel having end flanges respectively fitting in channels on ends of said side panels to proximately align a bottom edge of said front panel and said rear panel respectively with a front wall and a rear wall of said bottom tray and locate said front and rear panel in said upward and outward extending position,
• said enclosure posts having top ends extending above a top wall of said enclosure walls,
• a pair of frame members carried by said enclosure corner post top ends,
• a removable top tray carried by said enclosure above said enclosure top wall, and
• a playground unit carried by said top frame members above said top tray,
• wherein said screen panels deflect debris and the like from birds in said enclosure into said bottom tray and droppings from birds using said playground unit collect in said top tray.

A cage comprising:

• a movable carriage having a set of corner posts maintained in a spaced relationship by stretchers extending between said posts,
• an enclosure having a set of corner posts releasably carried by said carriage posts, said enclosure posts maintained in a spaced relationship by bar-formed walls defining an interior of said enclosure,
• a playground unit carried by said enclosure above a top wall of said enclosure walls,
• a top tray removably carried by said enclosure above said top wall and below said playground unit,
• seed cup holders having upper ends releasably carried by enclosure bars of sidewalls of said enclosure walls to fit in openings in said sidewalls,
• a door fitting in an opening of a front wall of said enclosure walls, said door having a set of spaced apart sleeves pivotally carried by a vertical side enclosure bar of said front wall and maintained in a fixed vertical location by front wall side spacer bars attached to said front wall side enclosure bar, latching means to maintain said door in a closed position and provide ready release of said door to an open position, and locking means to provide selective release of said door from said closed position,
• a bottom tray removably carried by said carriage below a bottom wall of said enclosure walls, and
• a seed deflection screen carried by said carriage, said screen including a pair of side panels having fastening elements inserted in openings in said carriage posts to locate said side panels in respective alignment with said enclosure sidewalls, locate said side panels in an upward and outward extending position, and locate bottom edges of said side panels in proximate alignment with respective sidewalls of said bottom tray, a front panel having respective end flanges fitting in a channel on an end of each said side panel to locate said front panel in said upward and outward extending position and locate a bottom edge of said front panel in proximate alignment with a front wall of said bottom tray, and a back panel having respective end flanges fitting in a channel on an opposite end of each said side panel to locate said back panel in said upward and outward extending position, and locate a bottom edge of said back panel in proximate alignment with a rear wall of said bottom tray, and
• a bottom wall of said enclosure walls, said bottom wall including a removable bar-formed frame located above a top edge of said screen front panel,
• wherein said top tray, said bottom tray, said screen panels, and said bottom wall frame may be readily disassembled from said cage for cleaning and then reassembled thereto.

A cage particularly adapted for bird habitation, said cage comprising:

• an enclosure,
• a removable container carried by said cage below a bar formed bottom wall of said enclosure,
• a first side panel of a seed deflection screen extending about said enclosure, said first side panel joined to a first side of said cage by a first quick-release slip connection that independently supports said first side panel in an upward and outwardly extending position and locates a bottom edge of said first side panel to direct debris striking said first side panel into said container,
• a second side panel of said seed deflection screen joined to a second side of said cage by a second quick-release slip connection that independently supports said second side panel in an upward and outwardly extending position and locates a bottom edge of said second side panel to direct debris striking said second side panel into said container, and
• a front and a rear panel of said seed deflection screen, said front and rear panels positioned respectively between respective ends of said side panels, and said front and rear panels having respective ends joined to said side panel ends by quick-release interlocking connections that independently support said front and rear panel in said upward and outwardly extending position and locate bottom edges of said front and rear panels to direct debris striking said front and rear panels into said container,
• wherein during cleaning of said cage integrity of said enclosure is uninterrupted during removal of said container, and cleaning of said cage is facilitated by independent support of said deflection screen side panels through said quick-release slip connections and by independent support of said front and rear panels through said quick-release interlocking connections that allow individual panel removal and reattachment.