A Combined Travelling Box and Show Bench for Dogs and other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 30th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Travelling Box and Show Bench for Dogs and other
Animals.
We, BARNARD BISHOP AND BARNARDS LIMITED of Norfolk Iron Works in
the City of Norwich in the County of Norfolk, Manufacturers of Horticultural
Appliances and JOHN WESTACOTT of the same address do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of this invention is to construct a travelling box or similar appliance,
wholly or partly of wood, wicker-work or other suitable material for the purpose of
conveying dogs or other animals from place to place, which travelling box may also
be used for the purpose of a show bench or receptacle for the exhibiting of the said
dogs or other animals, thereby lessening the expense of such exhibition and
removing the liability of such dogs or other animals to contract distemper or other
infectious disease from the use of the common show benches usually provided at
public exhibitions.
For this purpose we provide a box or other appliance constructed with the
necessary ventilation to ensure a supply of air to the animal during a journey.
When required for exhibition purposes, the upper side or lid of this box is folded
back, lying flat against the back portion of the same.
The front of the box we prefer to make in the form of double doors which fold
or slide against the sides or bottom of the box, in which form it is suitable for use
as a show bench for exhibition purposes.
Folding legs for supporting the above may be added if required.
By slight modifications our invention may be made applicable for the conveyance
and exhibition of poultry. Discons & other birds.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Travelling Box and Show Bench for Dogs and other
Animals.
We, BARNARD, BISHOP AND BARNARDS LIMITED of Norfolk Iron Works in
the City of Norwich in the County of Norfolk and JoпN WESTACOTT of the
same address Manufacturers of Horticultural Appliances, 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 construct a travelling box or similar appliance,
wholly or partly of wood, wickerwork or other suitable material for the purpose of
conveying dogs, rabbits, poultry or other animals from place to place, which
travelling box may also be used for the purpose of a show bench or receptacle for
the exhibition of the said animals, thereby lessening the expense of such exhibition
and removing the liability of such animals to contract distemper or other infectious
disease from the use of the common show benches usually provided at public
exhibitions.

page_text: When required for dogs we provide for this purpose a box or other appliance
constructed with the necessary ventilation to ensure a supply of air to the animal
during a journey. When required for exhibition purposes the upper side or lid of
this box is folded back flat against the back portion of the same. The front of the
box we prefer to make in the form of double doors which fold or slide against the
side of the box, or the entire front may be made to fold against the bottom of
the box in which form it is suitable for use as a show bench for exhibition
purposes.
Figure 1 shews the box when closed for travelling and Figure 2 when opened for
use at exhibition.
Arrangements for ventilating are shewn at a, the iron bars preventing the box
being so placed when travelling that the supply of air may be cut off. These iron
bars are also of use as handles by which the box may be lifted and can be made to
fold down as legs to support the box if required.
If required for the conveyance and exhibition of rabbits or poultry pigeons and
other birds it would be constructed of lighter materials than shewn in accompanying
drawings. It would also be necessary to cover the portions exposed by opening the
top and front, with wire lattice or netting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we hereby declare that
what we claim is :-
To construct a travelling box for dogs, rabbits, poultry and other animals which
may also be used for a show bench or pen for the exhibiting of the same,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of April 1891.