A Cage or Crate for Transporting Live Birds.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1899-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1899
AAL KITIATION.
A Cage or Crate for Transporting Live Birds.
I, HENRY GASPARD FIENT, of 6, Railway Approach, London Bridge, S.E.,
Pigeon and Quail Importer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
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This invention relates to cages or crates for the transport of live birds in large
quantities for import, export, and market purposes and it has for its object to
facilitate the transport of the birds, the tending, feeding, and cleaning of the
birds during transport, and the dismounting of the cage or crate for storage,
cleaning, and transport in small bulk as returned empty" package.
The cage or crate preferably comprises two or more storeys and is constructed
of four side frames united as hereafter described so as to facilitate the erection
and dismounting of the cage or crate, the top and bottom being closed by cross
laths separately dismountable. Each side frame is a grated structure, composed
of top, bottom, and intermediate cross bars bored transversely in the vertical
direction at suitable intervals for the passage of withies forming gratings and
uniting the cross bars at proper intervals, these side frames being either dismount-
able each as a whole or capable of being readily taken entirely to pieces. The cross
bars are also bored horizontally and transversely at suitable intervals for the
reception of similar withies which are supported in position and braced by
passing through corresponding holes bored in cross laths nailed at their ends to
the cross members of the side frames. The front frame has grated doors formed,
like ordinary birdcage doors, of horizontal members and vertical withies, the
doors being hinged at one side on one of the withies of the main frame and
secured at the other side by a sliding withy or otherwise.
The four frames are assembled for erection of the crate with the ends of the
cross members of the one frame lying across the adjacent ends of the cross
members of the adjacent side frames the ends crossing above and below one
another and being bored with vertically aligning holes to receive slidable withies
passing from top to bottom so as to unite the four side frames at the corners
of the crate. The cross laths of the top, bottom, and intermediate horizontal
frames are fixed to the cross members of two opposite side frames and the withies
which complete the horizontal frames are passed through the holes in the cross
members of the other two side frames and through the holes in the cross laths.
Upon the bottom and intermediate frames, rush mats are placed to prevent injury
o the birds by their feet passing through the gratings, or otherwise.
By removing the corner withies and unfixing the cross slats of the top, bottom,
nd intermediate frames, the four side frames may be readily pulled apart and
e superposed flatwise for storage or transport, the horizontal frames being either
tored in the flat or pulled to pieces.
Dated this 19th
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A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.

page_text: -A Cage or Crate for Transporting Live Birds.
I, HENRY GASPARD FIENT, of 6, Railway Approach, London Bridge, S.E.,
Pigeon and Quail Importer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:
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This invention relates to cages or crates for the transport of live birds in large
quantities for import, export, and market purposes and it has for its object to
facilitate the. transport of the birds, the tending, feeding, and cleaning of the
birds during transit, and the dismounting of the cage or crate for storage, clean-
ing, and transport in small bulk as a returned empty" package.
The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawing
which represents a perspective view of a two-storeyed cage or crate constructed
in accordance with the invention.
The cage or crate preferably comprises two or more storeys (a two-storeyed
cage being illustrated) and is constructed of four side frames united as hereafter
described so as to facilitate the erection and dismounting of the cage or crate,
the top and bottom being closed by cross bars separately dismountable. Each
front and back frame is a grated structure composed of top, bottom, and inter-
mediate cross bars A B C bored transversely in the vertical direction at suitable
intervals for the passage of withies forming gratings and uniting the cross
bars at proper intervals. The two side frames are formed of similar cross
bars A, B, C, and withies a', all four frames being either dismountable each
as a whole or capable of being readily taken entirely to pieces by drawing the
withies out of the bars. The cross bars A B C of the front, and back frames
are also bored transversely at suitable intervals for the reception of similar
horizontal withies d which are supported in position and braced by passing
through corresponding holes bored in cross bars D nailed or otherwise secured at
their ends to the cross members A¹, B, C, of the side frames. Any one or more
of the frames would have grated doors formed, like ordinary birdcage doors, of
horizontal members E and vertical withies e, the doors being hinged at one
side on one of the withies a of the main frame and secured at the other side
by a sliding withy a² acting as a bolt, the fastening being in any case made secure
preferably by tying with wired string sealed with a leaden seal.
The four side frames are assembled for erection of the crate with the ends
of the cross members A B C of the one frame lying across the adjacent ends of
the cross members A, B, C, of the adjacent side frames, the relative arrange-
ment of the bars A B C of the front and back frames, of the bars A¹, B, C, of
the side frames, and of the bars D of the horizontal frames, being preferably as
shewn. That is to say the ends of the top and bottom bars A, B, of the side
frames are embraced between the ends of the corresponding bars A B of the
front and back frames, the intermediate bars C of the side frames being in
such relation to the corresponding bars C of the main frames that the cross
bars fixed upon the intermediate bars C will be at the same level as the bars C
in order that the withies d may pass through bars C and D as described and
form an intermediate horizontal frame or floor for the upper storey of the cage.
Similarly as regards the members of the bottom and top frames, but it will be
evident that the relative arrangement of the adjacent crossed ends of the members
of the one and the other frame may be varied without affecting the connection
of the four side frames. This connection is effected by means of slidable
withies passed through vertically aligning holes bored in the overlapping

page_text: crossed ends of the bars of the front, back, and side frames, the withies a³ extend-
ing from top to bottom so as to unite the four side frames at the corners of the
crate. The cross bars D of the top, bottom, and intermediate horizontal frames
are fixed to the cross members A', B, C, of the two side frames and the withies d
which complete the horizontal frames are passed through the horizontal holes in
the cross members A B C of the front and back frames and through holes in
the cross bars D themselves. Upon the bottom and intermediate frames, rush
mats (not shewn) are placed, to prevent injury to the birds by their feet passing
through the gratings or otherwise.
By removing the corner withies a and unfixing the cross bars D of the top,
bottom, and intermediate frames, the four side frames may be readily pulled
apart from each other and from the horizontal frames and the whole may be
superposed flatwise for storage or transport, or the horizontal frames formed of
the bars D and withies & may be pulled to pieces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The herein described cage or crate for the purpose specified, the same being
constructed so as to admit of being readily erected or dismounted substantially
as herein described and illustrated in the drawings.
2. A cage or crate for the purpose specified whereof each of the four side
frames is composed of horizontal main cross members traversed by vertical
members, the four sides being assembled so that the ends of corresponding cross
members of adjacent sides lie across each other and being united by rods traversing
the overlapping ends of the cross members substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
3. A cage or crate for the purpose specified constituted of side frames con-
tructed and united as described, in combination with horizontal frames formed
of cross bars fixed to the cross members of two opposite side frames and of
vithies or rods passing through the said cross bars and the corresponding cross
members of the other two side frames substantially as specified.
Dated this 28th day of July 1899.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London. `