Patent ID: 9339006
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: A01K

Claim Text:
1. A pet kennel assembly particularly configured to constrain a pet's access to a home indoor area while simultaneously providing egress from a pet kennel, via a pet door extending through a home wall, to a home outdoor area, the pet kennel assembly comprising: a multi-sided pet kennel housing, forming a pet enclosure when fully deployed, including a bottom panel, a top panel and a plurality of side panels extending therebetween, a first side panel generally bounded by home wall-facing edges of a pair of opposite second and third side panels, said top panel and said bottom panel of said pet kennel housing, said first side panel being selectively movable between a fully-closed position adjacent to said home wall-facing edges of said pet kennel housing and a fully-opened position displaced away from said home wall-facing edges of said pet kennel housing, wherein when said first side panel is in said fully-opened position said home wall-facing edges of said of said pet kennel housing define a home wall-facing open side of said pet kennel housing; and a pet kennel housing-to-home wall attachment sub-assembly, comprising: wherein, with said first side panel in said fully opened position being displaced away from said home wall-facing edges of said pet kennel housing, and said first and second attachment structures secured to one another, said home wall-facing edges of said pet kennel housing generally butt up against an interior surface of said home wall about said pet door to constrain the pet within said kennel housing on the interior of the home while enabling egress from the kennel housing, through the pet door, to a home exterior area.