Patent ID: 6092488
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A collapsible animal security shipping kennel comprising:two opposite side walls, each of said side walls having two pivotally joined segments, said walls being movable from a vertically erect position to a lower horizontally fully collapsed position;a top surface pivotally connected to said two side walls adjacent two opposite edges of the top surface;a bottom surface pivotally connected to said two side walls adjacent two opposite edges of the bottom surface;said top surface having opposite ends with a through surface slot located adjacent each of the opposite ends of the top surface;each of said two opposite side walls having two vertically disposable tracks located on opposite sides of said side walls, one of said tracks being alignable with each of said slots in the top surface when said side walls are in an erected position;each of said tracks having vertically orientable slots adapted to engage edges of an inserted end support wall; anda first end support wall and a second end support wall, each of said first and second end support walls being located on opposite sides of said top surface and slidably receivable into the slots in the top surface when said side walls are not in their fully collapsed position, whereby said inserted end support walls be adapted to vertically support the two side walls in an erected position.