WO1999015005A1 - Animal carrier - Google Patents
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- WO1999015005A1 WO1999015005A1 PCT/US1997/016900 US9716900W WO9915005A1 WO 1999015005 A1 WO1999015005 A1 WO 1999015005A1 US 9716900 W US9716900 W US 9716900W WO 9915005 A1 WO9915005 A1 WO 9915005A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
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- A01K1/02—Pigsties; Dog-kennels; Rabbit-hutches or the like
- A01K1/0236—Transport boxes, bags, cages, baskets, harnesses for animals; Fittings therefor
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- This invention relates to housings for pets. More particularly, the invention relates to collapsible pet housings which can be manually gripped and easily transported or stored when the housings are not in use.
- the pet housings now in use are generally permanent structures. This makes it difficult for the pet housings to be transported. For example, when a family moves from one location to another, the pet housings cannot be disassembled at the home being vacated and re-assembled at the home being newly occupied. The pet housing thus has to be shipped in its assembled state so that it occupies a considerable amount of space in the van transporting the owners' possessions from the previously occupied home to the newly occupied home.
- Patent 3,048,147 issued to J.D. McKean on August 7, 1962, for "Portable Collapsible Shipping Kennel for Animals discloses an expansible and collapsible housing for pets.
- the kennel lacks certain features which would cause the kennel to be adopted by pet owners.
- the kennel does not provide a satisfactory arrangement for maintaining the kennel in an expanded relationship or for maintaining the kennel in a collapsed relationship.
- the kennel also provide an arrangement for easily the kennel from an expanded relationship to a collapsed relationship and vice versa.
- This invention provides a pet housing which can be easily expanded to hold a pet or easily collapsed to the size of a suitcase. When collapsed, the pet housing can be easily transported, particularly since it has a relatively light weight. The pet housing can also be manually transported when expanded even when the pet is inside the housing.
- the invention also provides a pet housing which can be maintained in the expanded state or in the collapsed state.
- the pet housing can be manufactured at a relatively low cost so that it is competitive with the fixedly constructed dog houses now on the market.
- the pet housing of this invention is sturdy when expanded so that it gives the dog confidence when the dog is in the pet housing.
- a pet housing expansible to hold a pet and collapsible to suitcase size for manual transport includes a pair of platforms and first and second pairs of spaced walls.
- the walls in the first pair e.g. front and rear walls
- the walls in the second pair are pivotable toward an individual one of the platforms with such platform as a fulcrum to collapse the housing and toward the other platform when the housing is expanded.
- detents on opposite sides of the hinge on the first pair of walls releasably engage to maintain the housing collapsed.
- a manually grippable handle on both of the platforms provides for a transport of the collapsed housing. With the walls in the first pair expanded, detents on the walls in the first and second pairs of housings releasably engage to maintain the expanded housing enclosure.
- a second handle on one of the platforms is manually grippable to provide for the housing transport in the expanded relationship.
- Third detents provide for a releasable closing and opening, preferably on a vertical axis, of a door in one of the second pair of walls.
- Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of a person manually carrying a pet housing of this invention with the pet housing in an expanded relationship;
- Figure 2 is a schematic perspective view of a person manually carrying the pet housing shown in Figure 1 with the pet housing in a collapsed relationship;
- Figure 3 is a schematic perspective view of the pet housing in the expanded relationship with the hand of a person manually pivoting one of the side walls in the housing upwardly as one of the steps in collapsing the housing;
- Figure 4 is a schematic perspective view of the pet housing and shows the housing in a partially collapsed relationship and shows the hand of a person further collapsing the housing;
- Figure 5 is a front elevational view of the housing in the expanded relationship and shows a hinged arrangement for providing for a collapse or expansion of the front wall of the housing and additionally shows schematically how the side walls are pivoted upwardly as a step in collapsing the housing;
- Figure 6 is a side elevational view of the housing in the expanded relationship and schematically shows the pivotal movements of the upper and lower halves of the front and rear walls about the hinges as a fulcrum to collapse the housing;
- Figure 7 is a side elevational view of the housing in a collapsed relationship
- Figure 8 is an enlarged fragmentary top plan view of the housing and shows, in solid lines, handles attached to the top platform of the housing for a manual gripping to transport the housing respectively in either a collapsed or an expanded relationship and additionally shows, in broken lines, handles attached to the platform of the housing when the housing has an increased size;
- Figure 9 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 9-9 of Figure 5 and shows a detent arrangement, in an unlocked relationship, on the upper half of the front wall for locking the upper and lower halves of the front wall when the housing is in a collapsed disposition;
- Figure 9A is a sectional view also taken substantially on the line 9-9 of Figure 5 and shows the detent arrangement of Figure 9A in the locking relationship when the housing is in a collapsed disposition;
- Figure 10 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 10-10 of Figure 7 and shows the disposition of the side walls relative to the front wall and the top platform when the housing is in a collapsed relationship
- Figure 11 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 11-11 of Figure 5 and shows the relative disposition of detents on the front wall and a side wall when the detents are disposed in relative positions to releasably fix the side walls to the front wall;
- Figure 11 A is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 11-11 of Figure 5 and shows the relative disposition of the front wall and a side wall when the detents are displaced from the relative positions releasably fixing the side wall to the front wall;
- Figure 12 is a perspective view of the housing in the expanded relationship and of a door in one of the side walls with the door in an open position relative to such side wall; and Figure 13 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevational view of a detent arrangement for releasably locking the door to the side wall.
- a pet housing generally indicated at 10 is provided with an expanded relationship (Figure 1) to hold a pet such as a dog and with a collapsed relationship (Figure 2) to facilitate the manual transport of the housing.
- the housing 10 includes a top platform 12, a bottom platform 14, a front wall 16, a rear wall 18, a wall 20 on the left side and a wall 22 on the right side.
- the platforms 12 and 14 and the walls 16, 18, 20 and 22 have rectangular configurations to define, in the expanded disposition of the housing 10, a space defined by six (6) peripheries of rectangular configuration.
- the platforms 12 and 14 and the walls 16, 18, 20 and 22 may be formed from a suitable material such as a thermosetting plastic or a thermoplastic material or from a suitable material such as aluminum.
- the platforms 12 and 14 may preferably be formed from a solid material.
- Each of the front and rear walls 16 and 18 may be provided with spaced ribs 24 extending from one of the wall extremities to a hinge 26.
- Each of the hinges 26 extends along the length of the associated wall at an intermediate position between the top and bottom of the wall.
- the upper and lower portions of each of the front and rear walls 16 and 18 are pivotable relative to each other on the hinge 26 as a fulcrum.
- the pivotal relationship for the front wall 16 is facilitated by a pivot pin 27 disposed on the top platform 12 and a pivot pin 29 disposed on the bottom platform 14.
- a similar pivotal arrangement is provided for the rear wall 18.
- a handle 30 ( Figures 1, 3 and 8) may be provided on the top platform 12 at a centrally disposed position on the flat surface at the top of the platform 12.
- the handle 30 is disposed in a recess 32 in the top platform so that it will be substantially flush with the surface of the platform when not in use.
- the handle 30 is retained within a retainer 34 for pivotable movement relative to the retainer and the surface of the platform 12 when the housing 12 is to be lifted and transported in the expanded relationship of the housing 10 as shown in Figure 1.
- a handle 36 ( Figures 2 and 8) is also preferably disposed on one of the side surfaces of the top platform 12 at an intermediate position on such surface.
- the handle 36 is adapted to be manually gripped to provide for a manual transport of the housing 10 with the housing collapsed as shown in Figure 2.
- a pair of handles 38 (shown in broken lines in Figure 8) may be disposed at spaced positions on the side surface of the top platform 12. In this way, the handles may be gripped by two (2) people and manually transported by these people.
- Each of the side walls 20 and 22 may preferably be formed from a grated material defined by a plurality of horizontally and vertically spaced wires. The grated material helps to decrease the weight of the housing 10 and to provide for air circulation through the housing 10.
- Each of the side walls 20 and 22 may be pivotably coupled to the bottom of the top platform 12 for pivotal movement on a horizontal axis defined by the bottom of the top platform.
- the side walls 20 and 22 are disposed in vertically hanging relationship from the top platform 12 when the housing 12 is in its expanded relationship. This is shown in Figure 1 for the right side wall 22.
- the side walls 20 and 22 are pivotable upwardly to positions below the top platform 12 as shown schematically in Figure 3 and as shown in Figure 10.
- the pivotable movements upwardly of the side walls 20 and 22 are indicated by arcuately curved arrows 40 in Figure 5.
- the upward pivotal movements of the walls 20 and 22 constitute one of the steps in changing the configuration of the housing 10 from the expanded relationship shown in Figure 1 to the collapsed relationship shown in Figure 2.
- the walls 20 and 22 may have a releasably fixed relationship to the front and rear walls 16 and 18.
- FIG. 11 This is shown schematically in Figures 11 and 11A.
- the wall 22 has a detent 42 which is movable from the unlocked position shown in Figure 11 A to the locked position shown in Figure 11.
- the front wall 16 may be movable from the decoupled position shown in Figure 11 A to the position shown in Figure 11 as the front wall is expanded from the partially collapsed position shown in Figure 11A to the expanded position shown in Figure 11.
- the detent 42 frictionally engages a detent 44 on the front wall 16. Since the engagement between the detents 42 and 44 is frictional, the relationship between the detents 42 and 44 can be changed from that shown in Figure 11 to that shown in Figure 11 A by manually exerting a force against the wall 22 to pivot the wall upwardly.
- a similar arrangement of detents may be provided between the wall 22 and the rear wall 18 and between the wall 20 and each of the wall 16 and 18.
- One or both of the side walls 20 and 22 may include a door 50.
- the door 50 is shown as being included in the wall 22.
- the door 50 may be pivotable relative to the wall 22 between open ( Figure 12) and closed ( Figure 1) positions on a pivotable axis. This axis may preferably extend in a vertical direction as shown at 51 in Figure 12.
- the door 50 may normally be in the closed position as a result of the extension of fingers 52 ( Figure 12) into sockets 54 in the wall 22.
- the door 50 may be moved pivotally to the open position as by rotating a knob 56, the rotation causing the fingers 52 to retract from the sockets 54. This releases the door 50 to be opened.
- the pet When the door 50 is opened, the pet may enter into the housing 10 or exit from the housing.
- Detents 60 ( Figures 1, 9 and 9A) and 62 are provided on the platforms 12 and 14 and 16 respectively above and below the hinges 26.
- the detents 60 and 62 may be provided at positions near the opposite longitudinal ends of each of the platforms 12 and 14.
- the detents 60 may be pivotable on pins 66 to engage the detents 62 when the platforms 12 and 14 are in their collapsed relationship.
- Figure 9 shows the detents 60 in an unlocked relationship relative to the detents 62 before the upper and lower portions of each of the platforms 12 and 14 have been collapsed against each other.
- Figure 9 A shows the upper and lower portions of the platform 12 collapsed against each other.
- Figure 9A additionally shows the detent 60 in broken lines before the detent has been moved pivotally on the pin 66 to engage the detent 62.
- Figure 9A additionally shows the detent 60 in solid lines with the detent extended over the detent 62 to lock the platform 12 in the collapsed relationship of the housing 10.
- the pet housing 10 described above and shown in the drawings has certain important advantages. It provides a sturdy and light-weight construction in the expanded relationship of the housing. In this expanded relationship, the walls 20 and 22 are disposed in releasably fixed disposition relative to the walls 16 and 18 as a result of the operation of the detents 42 and 44 in maintaining the housing 10 in the expanded relationship. Furthermore, in this expanded relationship, the door 50 may be opened as a result of the operation of the fingers 52, the socket 54 and the knob 56 to provide for the entrance of the pet into the expanded housing 10 or the exit of the pet from the expanded housing.
- the housing can be transported in the expanded relationship by manually grasping the handle 30. The pet housing can be changed relatively easily from the expanded relationship shown in Figure 1 to the collapsed relationship shown in Figure 2.
- the housing has the configuration of a suitcase so that it can be easily transported by manually grasping the handle 36 for a relatively small housing or the handles 38 for a relatively large housing.
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US08/489,559 US5669331A (en) | 1995-06-12 | 1995-06-12 | Animal carrier |
CA002303415A CA2303415C (en) | 1997-09-22 | 1997-09-22 | Animal carrier |
DE69737268T DE69737268D1 (en) | 1997-09-22 | 1997-09-22 | CONTAINER FOR TRANSPORTING ANIMALS |
AU44934/97A AU4493497A (en) | 1997-09-22 | 1997-09-22 | Animal carrier |
PCT/US1997/016900 WO1999015005A1 (en) | 1995-06-12 | 1997-09-22 | Animal carrier |
EP97943465A EP1018864B1 (en) | 1995-06-12 | 1997-09-22 | Animal carrier |
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