Patent ID: 8733294
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An animal pen door of an animal pen, the animal pen having a first side wall adjacent and perpendicular to an access wall and a second side wall spaced from the first side wall and adjacent and perpendicular to the access wall, the animal pen door comprising: an access door hinged to the access wall at a vertical first post having a top and a bottom and closing against a vertical second post having a top and a bottom; wherein the first post is supported at its top not by a door lintel extending between the first post and the second post but by a first diagonal brace member extending between the top of the first post and the top of its adjacent first side wall; and wherein the second post is supported either by being located at a junction between the access wall and an adjacent side wall or by a second diagonal brace member extending between the top of the second post and the top of its adjacent second side wall.