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US 6,832,580 B2Granted
Modular cage
AssigneeMarchioro S.p.A. Stampaggio Materie Plastiche
InventorDomenico Marchioro
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Abstract
A modular cage comprising first and second profiled elements connected by interlocking corner joints for reversible joining so as to constitute a supporting frame and grille-like wall elements connected to the frame to constitute the cage, with the corner joints comprising each a corner body from which tangs extend monolithically and at right angles, the tangs being provided with reversible locking devices which enter corresponding first longitudinally elongated seats formed in the profiled elements.
Claims13
A modular cage, comprising:
- corner joints having a corner body and at least three tangs that
- protrude at right angles from said corner body;
- reversible locking devices provided at said tangs;
- first profiled elements, comprising first seats which have surfaces thereof shaped complementary to the tangs, said tangs being insertable with said reversible locking devices in said first seats for interlocking;
- second profiled elements comprising first seats which have surfaces thereof shaped complementary to the tangs, said tangs being insertable with said reversible locking devices in said first seats for interlocking;
- grill-like wall elements;
- additional supporting seats provided both at said first and second profiled elements;
- said grill-like wall elements being removably accommodated and retained in said additional supporting seats and said first and second profiled elements being removably connected to each other and interlocked by way of said corner joints so as to form a supporting frame on which said grill-like wall elements are removably supported so as to form said cage;
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- auxiliary connection components, each one of said corner bodies of said corner joints being provided with a dead hole for accommodating a respective one of said auxiliary connecting components.
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A modular cage, comprising:
- corner joints having a corner body and at least three tangs that protrude at right angles from said corner body;
- reversible locking devices provided at said tangs;
- first profiled elements, comprising first seats which have surfaces thereof shaped complementary to the tangs, said tangs being insertable with said reversible locking devices in said first seats for interlocking;
- second profiled elements comprising first seats which have surfaces thereof shaped complementary to the tangs, said tangs being insertable with said reversible locking devices in said first seats for interlocking;
- grill-like wall elements;
- additional supporting seats provided both at said first and second profiled elements;
- said grill-like wall elements being removably accommodated and retained in said additional supporting seats and said first and second profiled elements being removably connected to each other and interlocked by way of said corner joints so as to form a supporting frame on which said grill-like wall elements are removably supported so as to form said cage;
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- first and second contoured end plugs which are provided with respective tangs, said second profiled elements comprising respective third seats in which said tangs of said contoured end plugs are inserted and locked.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.