JP6509579B2 - Small animal cage - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cage for housing small animals such as rabbits.

  As a cage for accommodating small animals such as rabbits, double beds are used in which the baby is placed on the floor of the cage body to keep the floor clean and relieve the burden on the animals (patented Reference 1).

  Also, as a toilet to be placed in a cage, there is a toilet in which a rattan is loaded into a bottomed container having an open upper surface and divided into upper and lower chambers, and a water absorbing sheet and sand are put into the lower chamber and used. When a small animal is placed on the rat and excreted, the excrement is dropped to the lower chamber and absorbed into a sheet or sand (see Patent Document 2).

Utility model registration No. 3075146 JP, 2014-195429, A

  Both the cage and the toilet have a double structure, and when used in combination, put the toilet on the cage of the cage. A step occurs between the cage child and the toilet child, but the small animal jumps into the toilet. However, when exercise capacity of small animals is decreased due to aging etc., they dislike steps and stop using the toilet.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-described technical background, the present invention provides a small animal cage in which the level difference between the floor of the cage body and the toilet is reduced.

  That is, this invention has a structure as described in following [1]-[5].

[1] A cage body for housing small animals, a double bottomed toilet in which a water-permeable bottom plate is attached to a bottomed container having an open upper surface and a double bottom, and installed in the cage body to form a double floor And a water-permeable floor plate having a notch corresponding to the flat shape of the toilet,
The small animal cage characterized in that the toilet is fitted into a cutout of a water-permeable floor plate.

  [2] The small animal cage according to the preceding paragraph 1, wherein the bottomed container of the toilet has a side wall higher than the water-permeable bottom plate, and at least a part of the side wall facing the notch of the water-permeable floor plate is formed low.

  [3] The small animal cage as recited in the aforementioned Item 1 or 2, wherein the toilet has a triangular planar shape, and the water-permeable floor plate has a notch at a corner.

  [4] A cage main body for housing a small animal, and a water-permeable floor plate mounted in the cage main body to form a double floor, and having a notch for fitting the toilet according to the flat shape of the toilet A small animal cage characterized by having.

  [5] The cage for small animals as recited in the aforementioned Item 4, wherein the notch is a triangle formed at the corner of the water-permeable floor plate.

  In the small animal cage described in the above-mentioned [1], the cage body is formed into a double floor by mounting a water-permeable floor plate, and the toilet is formed into a double bottom by mounting a water-permeable bottom plate to a bottomed container . And by inserting and installing the toilet in the notch provided in the water-permeable floor plate which becomes the upper floor of the double floor, the difference in level generated between the water-permeable floor plate of the cage body and the water-permeable bottom plate of the toilet is eliminated Or can be smaller. Therefore, the burden of moving small animals between the water-permeable floor plate and the toilet can be reduced.

  In the small animal cage described in the above [2], the side wall of the bottomed container of the toilet is higher than the water-permeable floor plate to prevent the spatter of excrement, and the side wall facing the notch portion of the water-permeable floor plate Is formed so low that the side walls do not become an obstacle during movement.

  In the small animal cage described in the above [3], since the flat shape of the toilet is triangular, the water-permeable floor plate may be cut off at a corner at an angle, and the edge of the notch can be shortened as much as possible. , The shape can be simplified, and the water-permeable floor plate becomes difficult to bend.

  In the small animal cage according to the above [4], the cage body is formed into a double bed by the installation of the water-permeable floor plate, and the shape of the notch is formed in the notch portion provided in the water-permeable floor plate which becomes the upper floor of the double floor. The flat shape toilet corresponding to can be fitted. The fitted toilet can lower the toilet than placing it on a water-permeable floor plate.

  In the small animal cage described in the above [5], since the notch of the water-permeable floor plate is a triangle or a quadrangle formed at the corner, the edge of the notch becomes as short as possible, and the shape can be simplified. The aqueous floor board becomes difficult to bend.

It is a perspective view showing one embodiment of a cage for small animals concerning the present invention. It is an exploded perspective view of a cage body. It is a perspective view of a toilet. It is a top view of a water-permeable floor board. It is a perspective view of a locking member. It is a perspective view which shows the connection state of a surrounding wall panel and a water-permeable floor board. It is principal part sectional drawing which shows the positional relationship of a water-permeable floor board and a toilet. It is a perspective view which shows the method of fixing a toilet to a cage body.

  1 to 8 show an embodiment of the small animal cage of the present invention.

The small animal cage 1 includes a cage body 10, a toilet 40 and a water-permeable floor plate 60. This small animal cage 1 is used for breeding rabbits.
[Cage body]
As shown in FIG. 2, the cage body 10 is configured by the tray 11, the peripheral wall panel 20, the top panel 30, and members attached to these.

  The tray 11 is a shallow type having a rectangular bottom surface 12, and an entrance 14 is formed at the center of the front side wall 13 by cutting a part of the side wall to lower the side wall height. 15 is a left side wall, 16 is a right side wall, and 17 is a rear side wall.

  The peripheral wall panel 20 is formed in a rectangular shape in plan view by circumferentially connecting a front panel 21, a left panel 22, a right panel 23 and a rear panel 24 made of wire. Adjacent panels are foldably connected to each other so that the left panel 22 and the right panel 23 can be folded at the center into valley folds, and the peripheral wall panel 20 is folded by folding the above-mentioned portions. be able to. A door 25 is provided on the front panel 21, and a clasp 26 for securing the peripheral wall panel 20 to the tray 11 is detachably attached to a central lower portion of the left panel 22 and the right panel 23. The clasp 26 has two hooks 26 a that lock to the peripheral wall panel 20 and claws 26 b that lock to the tray 11. Further, a protrusion 27 (see FIG. 6) for receiving the water-permeable floor plate 60 thereon is projected inward at the lower end of the peripheral wall panel 20, and the reverse L for locking the top panel 30 at the upper end. The hooks 28 in the shape of a letter are projected outward. The projections 27 are provided at a total of five places: right and left sides of the door 25 of the front panel 21, near the front of the left panel 22, near the front of the right panel 23, and the center of the rear panel 24. The hooks 28 are provided at two places each of the front panel 21, the left panel 22, the right panel 23, and the rear panel 24, and are provided at eight places in total. Furthermore, legs 29 are provided in a manner of vertically projecting from the lower end of the front panel 21 and the lower end of the rear panel 24. The legs 29 are provided at the left and right ends of the front panel 21 and at the left and right ends of the rear panel 24, and are provided at the four corners of the rectangular peripheral wall panel 20.

The top panel 30 is made of a wire and is detachably attached to the peripheral wall panel 20 by locking the outer edge wire 31 to the hooks 28 of the peripheral wall panel 20.
[toilet]
As shown in FIG. 3, the toilet 40 is composed of a bottomed container 41 made of resin and a water-permeable bottom plate 50 on which small animals get on and excrete.

  The bottomed container 41 has a side wall rising from a bottom surface 42 of a right-angled isosceles triangle, and an upper surface is opened. Of the three side walls rising from the bottom surface 42, the side wall 43 rising from the oblique side is partially cut away at the center to form locking portions 44, and grooves 44a are formed at both left and right ends of the locking portion 44. It is done. On the other hand, the two side walls 45 and 46 rising from the isosceles side of the bottom surface 42 gradually become higher from the height of the side wall 43 on the oblique side toward the apex angle side, and the side wall of the portion facing the side wall 43 is formed high. Prevent the spatter of excrement. Furthermore, a hook 47 for connecting the toilet 40 to the cage body 10 is attached to the center of the upper edge of the side walls 45 and 46.

  The water-permeable bottom plate 50 is composed of a wire panel of a right-angled isosceles triangle corresponding to the bottom surface 42 of the bottomed container 41. Further, a hook 51 projecting downward is extended at the center of the oblique side of the water-permeable bottom plate 50, and legs 52 are provided at three locations on the back surface.

The water-permeable bottom plate 50 hooks the hook 51 into the groove 44 a of the locking portion 44 of the bottomed container 41, and the leg 52 is grounded to the bottom surface 42 and mounted on the bottomed container 41. By the attachment of the water-permeable bottom plate 50, the top opening of the bottomed container 41 is closed so as to allow water flow, and the height of the legs 52 is accommodated between the bottom surface 42 of the bottomed container 41 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50. Form a double bottom with space for The bottom of the bottomed container is the bottom of the double bottom, and the water-permeable bottom plate 50 is the top. Sand and sheets are laid on the bottom surface 42 of the bottomed container 41 which is the lower bottom, and when small animals excrete on the water-permeable bottom plate 50, the excrement drops down from the gap of the wire and is absorbed in the sand or sheets.
[Water permeable floor board]
As shown in FIG. 4, the water-permeable floor plate 60 is made of a wire mesh panel, and has a rectangular isosceles triangle cutout 61 corresponding to the planar shape of the toilet 40 at one corner of the rectangle. Moreover, the convex part 62 engaged with the surrounding wall panel 20 is provided in the one side of the said water-permeable floor board 60. As shown in FIG. In the water-permeable floor plate 60 of the example of illustration, the convex part 62 is formed in the short side in which the notch part 61 is not formed.
[Assembly of cage]
The small animal cage 1 described above is assembled by the following procedure.

  The peripheral wall panel 20 is spread and made into a circumferential shape, the water-permeable floor plate 60 is inserted from the top surface side, and the convex portion 62 of the water-permeable floor plate 60 is inserted into the gap between the longitudinal wires of the left panel 22 or the right panel 23 Place 60 on protrusion 27. While the floor made of the water-permeable floor plate 60 is formed at the lower end of the peripheral wall panel 20 by the mounting of the water-permeable floor plate 60, the peripheral wall panel 20 prevents the bending of the connecting portion of adjacent panels and forms a rectangular peripheral wall Can be held. Although the water-permeable floor plate 60 can be mounted in any direction without distinction between upper and lower sides and right and left directions, it is general to install the toilet 40 at a position away from the door 25 of the front panel 21. The water-permeable floor plate 60 is mounted so that the notch 61 comes to the back right corner.

  Further, if necessary, the water-permeable floor plate 60 is fastened to the peripheral wall panel 20 using a clasp 70 shown in FIG. The clasp 70 folds one wire into two at the center and aligns and cuts the two cut ends to give an elastic force, and bends the fold mountain side substantially at right angles to hold the hook 71 The hook 72 is formed by curling the two cut ends. As shown in FIG. 6, the hooks 72 of the clasps 70 are hooked to the wires of the water-based floor plate 60, and are rotated to lock the latch 71 to the outer surface of the peripheral wall panel 20. The hooking member 70 can be used where the periphery of the water-permeable floor plate 60 is in contact with the peripheral wall panel 20, that is, anywhere except the notch 61. In FIG. 6, six clasps 70 are used.

  The assembled peripheral wall panel 20 is placed on the tray 11, and the legs 29 of the peripheral wall panel 20 are grounded to the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11. Thus, a double floor is formed in the cage body 10 with the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11 as the lower floor and the water-permeable floor plate 60 as the upper floor. Further, the hook 26a of the clasp 26 is locked to the left side panel 22 and the right side panel 23, and the claw 26b is hooked to the tray 11 to fasten the peripheral wall panel 20 to the tray 11. The water-permeable floor plate 60 is an upper floor of the double floor, and a notch 61 is provided at a corner thereof, so that a recess is formed in which the notch 61 has an opening shape. The shape of the opening of the recess is a right-angled isosceles triangle corresponding to the planar shape of the toilet 40, and the depth is the height of the leg 29 of the peripheral wall panel 20. The circumferential wall panel 20 is erected on two equal sides of the three sides of the opening of the recess, and the edge of the notch 61 exists on the oblique side.

  The toilet 40 is fitted into the recess formed by the notch 61 of the water-permeable floor plate 60, and the toilet 40 is placed on the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11. The toilet 40 placed on the tray 12 is in a state of being loosely restrained by the peripheral panel 20 and the edge of the notch 61, so that the toilet 40 can be prevented from falling due to the movement of a small animal. In addition, if necessary, positional deviation can be prevented by fixing the toilet 40 to the cage main body 10 by using the hooks 47 of the bottomed container 41 and using various connectors. 8 is an example in which the toilet 40 is fixed using the pin 55 with a ring, by locking the pin 55 passed through the ridge 47 of the bottomed container 41 to the outside of the lateral wire 56 of the peripheral wall panel 20. It is fixed to the peripheral wall panel 20. The pin 55 can be prevented from being lost by being connected to the ring 55 a at the chain 57 to the peripheral wall panel 20.

  The water-permeable floor plate 60 is fastened to the peripheral wall panel 20 with a clasp 70. And if the toilet 40 is fixed to the surrounding wall panel 20 as mentioned above, if the surrounding wall panel 20 which removed the clasp 26 and separated it is removed from the tray 11, the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the toilet 40 will be together from the tray 11. Since it comes off, the tray 11 can be cleaned easily. Further, since the bottom surface of the peripheral wall panel 20 is closed by the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the toilet 40, the peripheral wall panel 20 can be removed while accommodating the small animal.

  The floor of the cage body 10 and the bottom of the toilet 40 both have a double structure. As described above, by providing the cutout portion 61 in the water-permeable floor plate 60 and directly placing the toilet 40 on the bottom surface of the tray 11, the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water-permeable floor plate 60 are placed. The difference in height between the toilet 40 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50 can be reduced. By reducing the level difference between the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50, it is possible to reduce the burden on the small animal moving between the water-permeable floor plate 60 of the cage body 10 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50 of the toilet 40. . As a result, even a small animal whose exercise capacity has been reduced due to aging or the like will use the toilet 40.

  When the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50 are at the same height in the assembled state, the obstacle due to the step is completely eliminated. However, the present invention does not require that the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50 have the same height, and the distance from the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11 to the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water permeability from the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11 The distance to the bottom plate 50 is not limited. No matter how these distances are set, if the cage body 10 has a double floor structure, and the cutout portion 61 is provided in the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the toilet 40 is placed directly on the cage body 10 Because it becomes smaller, the burden on small animals is reduced.

  The toilet 40 can be made smaller from the difference in height between the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water-permeable bottom plate 50 if it is fitted into the notch portion 61 of the water-permeable floor plate 60. You may install in the state. As a method of installing the toilet 40 in a state of being floated up from the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11, a method of suspending the bottomed container 41 at the edge of the peripheral wall panel 20 or the notch portion 61 and suspending it There is a method of providing a convex portion for receiving the Further, the water-permeable floor plate 60 is attached to the peripheral wall panel 20, and the peripheral wall panel 20 is connected to the side surface of the tray to connect the tray 11 and the peripheral wall panel 20 in a manner not to ground the peripheral wall panel itself to the bottom surface 12 of the tray 11. If this is adopted, a cage body provided with a pullout-type tray from which the bottom can be pulled out can be used.

  Moreover, in order to prevent the spatter of the excrement, it is preferable that the side walls 43, 45 and 46 of the bottomed container 41 of the toilet 40 be higher than the water-permeable bottom plate. However, if the side wall is made high, the side wall becomes an obstacle to the entrance and exit of the toilet 40 even if the step between the water-permeable floor plate 60 and the water-permeable floor plate 50 of the toilet 40 is eliminated. In the illustrated toilet 40, the two side walls 45, 46 of the three side walls 43, 45, 46 of the bottomed container 41 are made sufficiently high to prevent spattering of excrement and the notch of the water-permeable floor plate 60 The side wall 43 facing the portion 61 is lowered so as not to be an obstacle to entering and exiting the toilet 40. Although the side wall 43 is entirely formed lower than the other side walls 45 and 46, only a part of the side wall 43 may be formed lower.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications are possible.

  The plane shape of the toilet is not limited to a triangle, and may be a polygon having a quadrangle or more, a circle, or the like. Also, the position to put the toilet is not limited. However, since the shape of the toilet is reflected in the shape of the notch of the water-permeable floor plate, it is possible to recommend a triangle which can simplify the shape of the notch. In the case of a triangle, since two sides are along the peripheral wall panel, it is possible to cut off the corner of the water-permeable floor plate diagonally. In addition, the edge of the cutout facing the toilet can not be connected to the peripheral wall of the cage body, so the water-permeable floor plate is easily bent, but from the viewpoint of shortening the edge as much as possible and making it difficult to bend. It is preferable to place a triangular toilet in the corner of the cage body. Although the planar shape of the cage body is not limited to a rectangular shape, a rectangular (including square) cage is often used, so that a combination of a rectangular cage and a right triangle toilet can be recommended.

  Also, the water-permeable floor plate, which is the upper floor of the double floor, may be located at a higher position than the lower floor of the cage main body, and the height and the method of forming the double floor structure do not matter. Another method of forming a double floor is to attach the legs to a water-permeable floor plate and to ground the legs to the floor of the cage body.

  The water-permeable floor plate is not limited to the mesh panel. As another water-permeable floor board, a bamboo leaf and a punching metal can be exemplified in which a plurality of flat plates are lined up little by little.

  The present invention can be used as a cage for small animals such as rabbits.

1 small animal cage 10 cage main body 11 tray 12 bottom surface 20 peripheral wall panel 29 legs 30 ceiling panel 40 toilet 41 bottomed container 42 bottom surface 43 side wall 45, 46 side wall 50 water-permeable bottom plate 51 hook 52 legs 60 water-permeable floor plate 61 notch 62 convex Part 70 clasp

Claims (2)

A cage body for housing small animals, a double bottomed toilet with a water-permeable bottom plate attached to a bottomed container with an open upper surface, and a double floor formed in the cage body to form a double floor And a water-permeable floor plate having a cutout corresponding to a planar shape;
The bottomed container of the toilet has a side wall higher than the water-permeable bottom plate, and at least a part of the side wall facing the notch of the water-permeable floor plate is formed low.
The small animal cage according to claim 1, wherein the toilet is fitted in the cutout portion of the water-permeable floor plate, and the water-permeable bottom plate has the same height as the water-permeable floor plate of the double floor . The small animal cage according to claim 1, wherein the toilet has a triangular planar shape, and the water-permeable floor plate has a notch at a corner.

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