An Improved Pen for Housing Birds and other Animals for Travelling and Exhibition Purposes
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pen for Housing Birds and other Animals for
Travelling and Exhibition Purposes.
I ARTHUR GARDINER of St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, in the County of
Norfolk Tobacconist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be. as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a safe and comfortable pen for birds
and other animals, for transit and exhibition purposes, by which means, the present
necessity of handling the birds or other animals by removing them from one cage
or pen to another is avoided.
In carrying out my invention, I form a strong square metal frame, two sides and
the bottom of the frame being preferably covered with wood, millboard or other
suitable material, whilst the front, top and back are covered with wire of suitable
thickness.
Underneath the floor of the pen, a metal rod moving in two grooves, is hinged or
otherwise fixed to a shutter, consisting of three separate parts held together by
means of hinges. Part one of said shutter covering the back of the pen, part two,
the top and part three the front. For travelling purposes, these shutters are folded
over the pen and cover the back, top and front entirely. Part three has at its
bottom a locking device.
When the birds or other animals are to be exhibited, the shutters are folded
together and pushed into a chamber formed by the floor and the bottom of the pen.
A little wooden door hinged to the floor of the pen conceals the shutters, when
folded up.
The two wooden sides are provided with handles, cut into said sides and covered
(inside) with wire or other suitable material, allowing the air to have access to the
pen, when the shutters are down.
To save small pens as much as possible from wear & tear, I provide the shutters
with metal edges.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pen for Housing Birds and other Animals for
Travelling and Exhibition Purposes.
I, ARTHUR GARDINER of St. Benedict's Street Norwich in the County of
Norfolk Tobacconist 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a safe and comfortable pen for birds
and other animals for transit and exhibition purposes by which means the present
necessity of handling the birds or other animals by removing them from one cage or
pen to another is avoided.
I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying illustrative
drawings.
Figure 1 shews a perspective view of my improved pen with the shutter down.
ready for travelling.
Fig. 2 shews a perspective of same with the shutter half unfolded and

page_text: Fig. 3 shews a perspective view of same with the shutter folded underneath the
floor of the pen.
Like letters refer to like parts on all the drawings.
In carrying out my invention I form a strong square metal frame a two sides
and the bottom of the frame being covered with wood-millboard or other suitable
material, whilst the front top and back are covered with wire of suitable thickness
and strength; the front having a shifting door for the entrance and exit of
animals.
Underneath the floor f of the pen, a metal rod », moving in two grooves g hinged
or otherwise fixed to a shutter consisting of three separate parts S', S", S held
together by means of hinges, covering the pen in the manner shewn in the accom-
panying drawings. For travelling purposes these shutters are folded over the pen
as shown in Fig. 1 when they cover the back top and front entirely. S has, at
its bottom a locking device l.
When the birds, or other animals, are to be exhibited, the shutters are folded
together (as indicated in Fig. 2) and pushed into a chamber formed by the floor f
and the bottom of the pen.
A little wooden door hinged to the bottom of the pen conceals the shutter when
folded up it is held by two suitable hooks h.
The two wooden sides are provided with perforated handles p cut into said sides,
allowing the air to have access to the pen when enclosed by the shutters, the handles
as shown on the accompanying drawings have the further advantage of necessitating
a straight lifting up of the pens, thus saving the animals from getting knocked
about.
In the smaller pens I provide the shutters with metal edges.
Where it is desired to disinfect the pens and provide for proper cleanliness I have
a perforated floor and underneath it, made to slide in and out easily a suitable
metal tray 1.
This tray may be filled with sawdust or other suitable material mixed with a
disinfectant.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is:
Improvements in peus for housing birds and other animals for travelling and
exhibition purposes, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the
annexed illustrative drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1891.
ARTHUR GARDINER.