JP2005204674A - Shutter structure of cage for capturing animal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shutter structure for capturing animals and of opening/shutting the aperture of a cage, prevented from opening even when the cage body is turned over after capturing an animal. <P>SOLUTION: A shutter 45 is guided freely slidably up and down by sliding elements 44 whose lower ends are externally fitted on guide cylinders 41 stood at both sides of an opening 2 and whose upper end is internally fitted thereto, on a stay 58 stood at the center upper side of the opening 2, a rocking metal fitting 61, which engages, at the descending end, the upper end element of a shutter 45 on a forked part 62, is pivoted with a horizontal axis parallel in width direction to be freely reversibly suspended, a fixing means for a rocking metal fitting 61 is set at the lower side of the stay, and a hanging means hanging the upper end element at the rising end of the shutter 45 is set at the upper side of the stay. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

The present invention belongs to the field of animal capture, and relates to a door structure for a cage mainly for capturing bears.

  In the drop-type door proposed in the prior art of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-275545, a guide member that guides the door up and down is provided upright above the upper frame body of the cage main body. Then, it may be deformed by receiving an external force at the time of rollover or the closed state of the door may become incomplete due to the rollover.

Problems to be solved by the invention

  In view of the above, the present invention attempts to prevent the opening / closing door that opens and closes the opening of the cage from being opened even after the animal is caught and the main body rolls over.

Means for solving the problem

The opening / closing door structure of the animal capture cage according to the present invention is an animal provided with an opening / closing door that is closed in conjunction with a guide bait housed in an opening of a rectangular parallelepiped main body elongated in the front-rear direction. In the door structure of the capture cage of
The open / close door is slidably guided up and down by a slider in which the lower end is externally fitted and the upper end is fitted in a guide tube detachably provided on both sides of the opening, and is erected above the center of the opening. To the support post, a lock fitting that locks the upper end member at the lower end of the door at the lower fork is pivotally supported by a horizontal axis parallel to the width direction so that the lock fitting can be fixed. The means is provided below the support column, and a suspension unit is provided above the support column to suspend the upper end member at the rising end of the door.

  As for the relationship between the guide cylinder and the slider for slidably guiding the dropping door, the hollow pipe or the like is selected from those having a solid rod.

Referring to FIG. 1, a vertically falling type animal trapping cage structure a (hereinafter simply referred to as a door structure a) according to the present invention will be described. A rectangular frame 3 slightly higher than the height of the cage main body 1 is joined to the opening 2 provided in the front portion of the cage main body 1, and the upper part is connected to the upper end of the opening 2 on both inner sides of the rectangular frame 3. The upper and lower two-stage support plates 40 are laterally arranged, and guide tubes 41 made of pipes are detachably fitted in insertion holes provided in the support plates 40, and the lower ends of both guide tubes 41 are connected to the rectangular frame 3. While being seated on the lower inner surface, a guide hole having the same diameter as the inner diameter of the guide tube 41 is provided through the upper end, and as shown in FIG. 2, positioning is performed by a presser foot 42 fixed to the outer side of the rectangular frame 3. Each is inserted into the guide tube 41 from the guide hole of the presser foot 42, and the height is higher than the height of the guide tube 41. A slider 44 made of a round bar (or a round pipe) having a suspension seat 43 larger in diameter than the guide hole at the top is guided slidably between the guide cylinders 41, 41. The open / close door 45 that closes the opening 2 is joined to a lower frame 46 and an upper frame 47 by a plurality of vertical iron bars 48 at a required pitch, and two upper and lower portions of the iron bar 48 are joined by a cross beam 49. The lower frame 46 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the ring portions 50 formed on the left and right sides are fitted on the left and right guide cylinders 41, and the upper frame 47 is inserted into the guide seat 51 projecting to the left and right to insert the slider 44 into the guide hole. A horizontal U-shaped receiving seat 52 is erected in the vicinity of the guide hole of each guide seat 51, and a horizontal mounting seat 53 and an upper end vertically from the outer end of the mounting seat 53 are provided on each receiving seat 52. The vertical part 54 is bent at the required height, and the upper part of the vertical part 54 is bent outwardly at a right angle. Attached to the retaining portion stopper fitting 56 of the mounting seat 53 made of 55. missing, the center of the upper frame 47 formed by upright wire latch 57.
“And the support 58 that is joined to the upper surface of the cage body 1 in cooperation with the rectangular frame 3 is provided with support seats 59 projecting left and right above the top of the rectangular frame 3, and bolts 60 are attached to the support seats 59. The upper part of the lock fitting 61 in the shape of the left side view is pivotally supported so as to be able to hang down, and as shown in FIG. 47, and as a fixing means below the support column 58, a receiving metal 63 is inserted in the center from the front surface of the support column 58 at a required position. 6 is inserted into the shaft portion 65 of the fixing bracket 64 shown in FIG. 6, and a collar portion 67 provided at the tip of the handle portion 66 joined to the upper end of the shaft portion 65 in a substantially T shape is a V-shape of the lock fitting 61. Are engaged with the upper horizontal member 69 to join the two side members 68, and the lock fitting 61 is prevented from flickering and opened. The door 45 is strictly prevented from being opened. Furthermore, the clasp 70 is formed on the front surface of the upper frame 72 of the rectangular frame 3 and the through hole 71 of the clasp 70 protruding to the outside of the right side member 68 of the lock fitting 61. If the lock is applied to the through-hole of the receiver 73 that hangs down at a position where it overlaps, further prevention of opening can be achieved. In addition, a semi-ring-shaped receiving member 74 projecting to the upper right side of the support column 58 has a substantially S-shaped hanging tool 75 attached to the upper flange portion 76 and a lower recess portion 77 having a wire. The upper frame 47 is engaged at the rising end of the door 45 shown by the phantom line in FIG. 1A when linked to the guide bait 38, and the door 45 is suspended by the hanging tool 75 even if the wire 38 is disconnected. Suspended by. When the setting of the wire 38 is completed, the recess 77 is removed from the upper frame 47.
The lock fitting 61 will be described with reference to FIG. 5. The side members 68 arranged on the left and right sides with a width that can be engaged with the support seats 59 projecting on both sides of the column 58 are bent upward in an arc shape. In addition, the facing width is widened slightly, the two are joined by a transverse member 69 at the intermediate portion and the bending start end, and further, the required length from the lower end is between the intermediate portion and the lower end of the bending portion. The reinforcing members 78 are joined to each other, and a bifurcated portion 62 is formed between the protruding portion and the bent portion of the reinforcing member 78, and both lateral members 69, 69 are formed on the upper surfaces of the side members 68. A weight 79 is joined between the two, a mounting seat 81 which is circumscribed on the support seat 59 of the support column 58 and is penetrated by a bolt hole 80 through which the bolt 60 is inserted is joined to the outside of the right side member 68. Is formed by laterally providing a stopper 70 provided with a through-hole 71 in the middle portion.
As shown in FIG. 4A, the lock fitting 61 formed in this manner supports a bolt 60 that rotatably joins the support seat 59 and the mounting seat 81 in a state where the opening / closing door 45 closes the opening 2. The shaft hangs down and the upper frame 47 of the door 45 is restrained by the bifurcated portion 62 to prevent the opening. Further, the hook portion 67 of the handle portion 66 is engaged with the horizontal member 69 while the shaft portion 65 of the fixing bracket 64 is inserted into the insertion hole of the receiving metal 63 protruding from the support column 58, and the hanging state of the lock fitting 61 is changed. Fix it. When the opening / closing door 45 is lifted to open the opening 2 to capture an animal such as a bear, the lock fitting 61 is inverted upward about the support shaft of the bolt 60 as shown in FIG. At this time, until the link between the wire 38 that lifts the door 45 and the guide bait (not shown) is completed, the shaft portion 65 of the fixing bracket 64 is locked to the bifurcated portion 62 on the back surface of the support column 58 and is described above. In this way, the upper frame 47 of the door 45 is suspended by the suspending tool 75 attached to the side surface of the support column 58.

As shown in FIG. 4 (b), the door structure “a” thus constructed is a roller 39 that lifts the lock fitting 61 in the inverted state and holds the posture with the fixing fitting 64, and is pivotally supported on the upper part of the column 58. When the wire 38 guided by the wire is engaged with the wire latch 57 erected on the upper frame 47 of the door 45 and the door 45 is lifted, both ends of the lower frame 46 are guided by the guide tube 41, and the upper frame Both ends of 47 are guided by the slider 44 in the guide seat 51, and when the guide seat 51 comes into contact with the suspension seat 43 at the top of the slider 44, the slider 44 moves up together with the slider 44. The slider 44 is guided to the inner periphery of the opening 41, but at the upper end of the opening, the slider 44 is engaged with the guide cylinder 41 by a required length (the length by which the guide seat 51 is guided by the slider 44). Thus, the door 45 is held by the guide tube 41 in a stable state.
Then, when the other end of the wire 38 is linked to the guide bait (not shown), the hanging tool 75 is removed from the door 45, the fixing metal 64 is removed from the lock metal 61, and the preparation for capture is completed. To do.
When an animal such as a bear activates the guide bait and releases the wire 38, the door 45 falls by its own weight, and when the upper frame 47 passes the lock fitting 61 in the inverted posture, the lock fitting 61 causes the bolt 60 to be pulled by the weight 79. The door 45 is pivoted forward about the center to be in a suspended state, thereby preventing the opening / closing door 45 from being opened.
Further, as shown in FIG. 1A, when the cage main body 1 is installed on an inclined ground, the vertical members 82 at the front and rear ends of the left and right sides of the cage main body 1 and the one end of the vertical member 82 are horizontally arranged. A horizontal member 83 that is joined, and a roll prevention metal fitting 84 that is formed by penetrating a plurality of bolt insertion holes (not shown) through the members 82 and 83 are joined to the main body 1 through the bolt insertion holes. Even if the captured bear becomes violent, it will not roll over.
When the captured animal is taken out or when the cage main body 1 is used as a breeding cage, if the retaining bracket 56 and the presser foot 42 are removed on either side of the guide tube 41 of the door structure b, it slides from the guide tube 41. If the child 44 can be extracted and the guide tube 41 is extracted from the upper and lower support plates 40 in this state, the open / close door 45 can be opened and closed as a single hinged door with the other guide tube 41 as a support shaft.

The invention's effect

  According to the present invention, since the opening / closing door after the animal is captured constrains the upper end member of the opening / closing door at the bifurcated portion of the lock fitting, the opening / closing door is prevented from being opened, and even if it rolls over, Opening is prevented in the same manner as described above.

  BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is explanatory drawing of the door structure b for the capture cage of this invention animal, (a) is a front view, (b) is a right view of (a).   The partial cross-sectional view of the door 45 of FIG.   The cross-sectional view of the lower part of the door 45 of FIG.   FIGS. 1A and 1B are diagrams for explaining the operation of the lock fitting 61 in FIG. 1, in which FIG. 1A shows a state in which it is fixed by a fixing fitting 64 in a hanging posture, and FIG. 1B shows a state in which the posture is held by a fixing fitting 64 in an inverted posture. .   The perspective view of the lock metal fitting 61 of FIG.   FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the fixing bracket 64 of FIG. 1.

Explanation of symbols

40 Support plate 41 Guide tube 42 Presser foot 43 Suspended lower seat 44 Slider 45 Opening door 46 Lower frame 47 Upper frame 48 Iron bar 49 Cross beam 50 Ring portion 51 Guide seat 52 Receiving seat 53 Mounting seat 54 Vertical portion 55 Retaining portion 56 Retaining metal fitting 57 Wire latch 58 Post 59 Support seat 60 Bolt 61 Lock metal fitting 62 Fork part 63 Receiving metal 64 Fixing metal fitting 65 Shaft part 66 Handle part 67 Gutter part 68 Side member 69 Horizontal member 70 Clasp 71 Through-hole 72 Upper frame 73 Receptacle 74 Receptacle 75 Suspension tool 76 Hang part 77 Recess 78 Reinforcement member 79 Weight 80 Bolt hole 81 Mounting seat 82 Vertical member 83 Horizontal member 84 Roll-over prevention fitting a Opening / closing door structure for catching animals

Claims (1)

In the opening / closing door structure of the animal's catch cage provided with an opening / closing door that is closed in conjunction with the guide bait housed inside, at the opening of the cage body that is long in the front-rear direction,
The open / close door is slidably guided up and down by a slider in which a lower end is externally fitted and a top end is fitted in a guide tube detachably provided on both sides of the opening, and stands up above the center of the opening. On the support column, a lock fitting that locks the upper end member at the lower end of the door at the lower end of the lower end is pivotally supported by a horizontal axis parallel to the width direction so that the lock fitting can be reversibly fixed. An opening / closing door structure for an animal catching cage, in which a fixing means is provided below the support column, and a suspension means is provided above the support column to suspend an upper end member at the rising end of the switch door.

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