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US 7,174,851 B2Granted
Animal display and habitat assembly
AssigneeNorth America Pet Products
InventorsRonald K. Bonner, Eric R. Knudsen
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Abstract
An animal display and habitat assembly having a number of modular animal display units coupled together to enclose a common access area, each of the display units including an outwardly facing display frame with a viewing section between opposing upright members and laterally disposed transition members that include first sections coupled to the upright members and second sections projecting inwardly from their respective first sections to provide a pair of door jambs across which an access door may enclose a display compartment or may be opened into the common access area.
Claims22
An animal display and habitat assembly comprising:
- a ring of access doors surrounding a common access area;
- a plurality of individual display panels, each display panel including a pair of opposing upright members and a window disposed therebetween for viewing through said display panel;
- a plurality of individual transition panels, each transition panel including a connecting member having a first end and an opposing second end;
- a framework defined by alternating individual of said display panels and individual said transition panels and removably coupling said panels together defining an outwardly facing faceted structure concentrically arranged about said ring of access doors;
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- a plurality of divider panels, each said divider panel being connected at one end to an intermediate point of a selected transition panel and at an opposing end to one side of a selected access door with adjacent said access doors having at least one side coupled to a common divider panel with each said access door cooperating with a pair of transition panels and an opposing display panel to define a display compartment.
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An animal display and habitat assembly comprising:
- a frame defining a viewing section between a pair of opposing upright frame members;
- a first transition member including a first section coupled to one of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a first doorjamb;
- a second transition member including a first section coupled to the other of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a second doorjamb;
- an access door coupled to one of said door jambs and, when in a closed position, projecting to the other of said door jambs to cooperate with said frame and said transition members to define a first modular display unit with a display compartment and an outwardly facing viewing section;
- at least one other modular display unit coupled to said first modular display unit with said modular display units forming an inner perimeter of access doors defining and substantially enclosing a common access area with each said display compartment being directly accessible from said common access area through an access door corresponding to an individual said display compartment;
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- at least one transition member includes a T-shaped frame wherein the first section meets the second section at a right angle.
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An animal display and habitat assembly comprising:
- a frame defining a viewing section between a pair of opposing upright frame members;
- a first transition member including a first section coupled to one of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a first doorjamb;
- a second transition member including a first section coupled to the other of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a second door jamb;
- an access door coupled to one of said door jambs and, when in a closed position, projecting to the other of said door jambs to cooperate with said frame and said transition members to define a first modular display unit with a display compartment and an outwardly facing viewing section;
- at least one other modular display unit coupled to said first modular display unit with said modular display units forming an inner perimeter of access doors defining and substantially enclosing a common access area with each said display compartment being directly accessible from said common access area through an access door corresponding to an individual said display compartment;
- at least one anchor flange projecting inwardly toward said common access area from said frame;
- at least one angled flange projecting inwardly from an end of said first section of one of said transition members toward said common access area and abutting said at least one anchor flange;
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- a fastener removably coupling said anchor flange to said angled flange and joining said one of said transition members with said frame.
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An animal display and habitat assembly comprising:
- a frame defining a viewing section between a pair of opposing upright frame members;
- a first transition member including a first section coupled to one of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a first doorjamb;
- a second transition member including a first section coupled to the other of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a second door jamb;
- an access door coupled to one of said door jambs and, when in a closed position, projecting to the other of said door jambs to cooperate with said frame and said transition members to define a first modular display unit with a display compartment and an outwardly facing viewing section;
- at least one other modular display unit coupled to said first modular display unit with said modular display units forming an inner perimeter of access doors defining and substantially enclosing a common access area with each said display compartment being directly accessible from said common access area through an access door corresponding to an individual said display compartment;
- said frame of said first modular display unit includes a first upright member coupled to a left side transition member and a second upright member coupled to a right side transition member with each of said transition members defining a lateral side support compartment adjacent said display compartment;
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- said display compartment is four-sided and said lateral side support compartments are three-sided.
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An animal display and habitat assembly comprising:
- a frame defining a viewing section between a pair of opposing upright frame members;
- a first transition member including a first section coupled to one of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a first doorjamb;
- a second transition member including a first section coupled to the other of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a second door jamb;
- an access door coupled to one of said door jambs and, when in a closed position, projecting to the other of said door jambs to cooperate with said frame and said transition members to define a first modular display unit with a display compartment and an outwardly facing viewing section;
- at least one other modular display unit coupled to said first modular display unit with said modular display units forming an inner perimeter of access doors defining and substantially enclosing a common access area with each said display compartment being directly accessible from said common access area through an access door corresponding to an individual said display compartment;
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- least one said transition member includes a first L-shaped frame with a first divider leg and a second L-shaped frame with a second divider leg with respective said divider legs connected together back to back with a gap therebetween to form a T-shaped transition member.
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An animal display and habitat assembly comprising:
- a frame defining a viewing section between a pair of opposing upright frame members;
- a first transition member including a first section coupled to one of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a first doorjamb;
- a second transition member including a first section coupled to the other of said upright frame members and a second section projecting inwardly from said first section and terminating in a second door jamb;
- an access door coupled to one of said door jambs and, when in a closed position, projecting to the other of said door jambs to cooperate with said frame and said transition members to define a first modular display unit with a display compartment and an outwardly facing viewing section;
- at least one other modular display unit coupled to said first modular display unit with said modular display units forming an inner perimeter of access doors defining and substantially enclosing a common access area with each said display compartment being directly accessible from said common access area through an access door corresponding to an individual said display compartment;
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- at least one of said modular display units includes a first compartment panel connected between one of said upright frame members and said first doorjamb and a second compartment panel connected between the other of said upright frame members and said second doorjamb with said compartment panels, said access door, and said frame cooperating to define a rectangular display compartment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.