DE1210238B - Combined bird and bat nesting box - Google Patents

Description

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

GERMAN

PATENT OFFICE

EDITORIAL

Int. CL:

AOIk

German class: 45 h -31/14

Number: 1 210 238

File number: H52218III / 45h

Filing date: April 1, 1964

Opening day: February 3, 1966

The invention relates to a combined bird and bat nesting box.

Bird nest boxes are known in various designs and are usually made of wood manufactured. They are either cylindrical or square in shape and are partially used for hanging or for attachment to a tree or the like.

Most of these known bird nest boxes have the disadvantage that they have an entrance hole are designed that either for smaller birds, such as. B. titmice, or for larger birds such as Starlings, it is thought that the boxes are used according to the presence of the birds. That but is particularly disadvantageous if, for example, the boxes with an entrance hole for larger birds from smaller birds are occupied because this creates the risk that the smaller birds themselves in the The breeding season will be driven away by the larger birds.

In order to remedy this disadvantage, it has become known to have bird nest boxes with adjustable entrance holes to train. For this purpose, it has been provided that the diameter of the entrance hole by a Specify a special socket that is either screwed into a hole that serves as the largest entrance hole or is used with a snug fit. However, this configuration requires a certain amount of stock to be kept on sockets that can easily be lost.

In another known design, a kind of screen made of metal is provided for the entrance hole, one of which is horizontal and at right angles to the front wall of the box. Depending on the species of bird the different panels can now be folded down and thus the size of the entrance hole to be determined.

Even this training could not be satisfactory, especially since all known bird nest boxes are only for Birds are trained. The invention is therefore based on the object to provide a nest box that has a very wide range of uses, is provided with adjustable entrance holes and also an entrance hole for bats.

This object is achieved according to the invention in that in the box housing of the removable Roof made of one with several holes of different diameters for the bird entrance hole Use used and can be determined with the roof via a plug and that below the Bird entrance hole in the box housing an entrance hole for a bat is provided through the can be locked in the manner of a bayonet lock in the box housing insertable bottom.

Combined bird and
Bat nest box

Applicant:

Heinrich Hohmann,

Breitenbach via Bebra, Hersfelder Str. 44

Named as inventor:

Heinrich Hohmann, Breitenbach about Bebra

It has proven advantageous to use the bottom with a raised cylinder section as a closure to train for the bat entrance hole.

The box can according to the invention made of wood and / or plastic or hardboard or made of another equivalent material. The shape of the box can be cylindrical or also be polygonal.

Further properties and advantages of the invention can be found in the description in conjunction with FIG Drawing of an embodiment.

F i g. 1 is a front view of a bird incubator;

F i g. 2 is a section along the line II-II of FIG Fig.l;

Fi g. 3 is a view of the flight hole insert;

F i g. Figure 4 is a section on the line IV-IV of Figure 3;

F i g. 5 shows the bottom insert from the side, and

F i g. 6 is a top plan view of the bottom insert.

As shown in FIG. 2, the bird incubator consists of a housing 1, which in the exemplary embodiment is cylindrical and contains a bore 2, the entrance hole, in the upper half, the removable roof 3, an insert 4 in the area of the bore 2 and a floor insert 5.

The housing 1 has an elongated cutout 6 below the bore 2, which acts as an entrance hole for Bats can be used.

The entrance hole insert 4 is adapted to the internal shape of the housing 1 and has a plurality of bores 7 different diameters. The insert 4 rests on projections or lugs 8, and on his

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The upper circumference is provided with incisions 9 into which the corresponding pegs 10 of the roof 3 snap.

The lower edge of the housing 1 is provided with inwardly protruding lugs 11, over which the cutouts 12 of the floor insert are pushed. When inserted, the base insert 5 abuts against further lugs 13 in the interior of the housing 1, - see above. that said bottom insert 5 _{bayonet-style:} is used, wherein the 'up superior Tiilwänd 17 either the entrance hole 6 for -.Fledermäuse completes (. F i g 2) or releases it, for which purpose then the bottom insert 5 prior to insertion by 180 ° with respect to Representation according to FIG. 2 is rotated.

The removable roof 3 is through, a. Plug. 14, through matching holes 15 and 16 is inserted into the housing 1 or the roof insert 3, held in its position. By, the intervention the pin 10 of the roof insert 3 in the incisions 9 of the entrance hole insert 4 is also the insert 4 in its set ao Held in position so that an automatic shift. · Of the insert is prevented. . ,

To clean the box after the birds are nesting, the bottom insert 5 is removed and cleaned without having to remove the box itself. A thorough cleaning is essential but because of the easy: dismantling of the box, with no nails, screws or the like removed ■ will need, extremely easily possible. "

Claims (2)

Patent claims: 1. bird incubator, characterized in that the box consists of a housing ^ (1) with an: adjustable insert (4) for 'das FJugloch_ (2), ..; a removable roof '(3) and a removable bottom insert (5). ■ 2. bird incubator according to claim 1, characterized characterized in that the insert (4) for the entrance hole (2) with several bores (7) different Diameter is provided. 3. bird incubator according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the housing (1) below the entrance hole (2) has a cutout (6) for an entrance hole of a bat. 4. bird incubator according to claim 1 to 3, characterized in that the entrance hole (6) for a bat can be locked through the bottom insert (5) of the box. 5. bird incubator .nach claim 1 to 4, characterized in that the housing (1) and its inserts (2, "4,5) made of wood and / or plastic or made of hardboard or other equivalent material. Considered publications:
German Patent No. 1013112;
German utility model No. 1845 646;
USA. Patent Memorandum No. 1166100. . 1 sheet of drawings 609 503/13 1.66 © Bundesdruckerei Berlin