Improvements in Bird and other Cages to Render the same Portable.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 12th July 1890-Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bird and other Cages to Render the same
Portable.
I, HARRY HOUGH, of 12 Hollydale Road, Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to render bird and other cages portable, the invention
being specially adapted for parrot and other large cages which occupy considerable
space when packed for transportation.
In the case of circular or other cages of a curved shape, I divide the cage vertically
into two halves or approximately so, and provide the horizontal bars with lugs fitting
into tubular recesses in the contiguous horizontal bars. To secure these I fit the seed
and water troughs with projecting lugs which pass over the adjacent vertical bars of
the two halves and a pin is passed through holes in the lugs aforesaid, thus securing
the two vertical halves to each other and the troughs to the cage. The cage is also
secured by the bell or dome at the top and by the base tray or bottom of the cagè
which is preferably made so that it may be taken entirely away from the sides of the
cage and can be packed separately and may if desired be hinged so as to be folded
over on itself or may be made in sections to be taken apart when required for better
packing. The two halves of the cage will easily nest one in the other.
With square, rectangular, or similar angle shaped cages, I prefer to hinge the
corners and sides so that they may fold up flat, longitudinally, diagonally, or trans-
versely as required. When opened out they are secured in position by a rigid top
and base.
Dated this Lith dox of Tenne 1900
CASTLE
SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bird and other Cages to Render the same
Portable.
I, HARRY HOUGH, of 12 Hollydale Road, Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Clerk,
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 make bird and other cages portable, the invention
being specially adapted for parrot and other large cages which occupy considerable
space when packed for transportation.
The invention will be well understood with the aid of the accompanying drawings
which are furnished as illustrations.
Figures 1 to 9 shew the details of a circular parrot cage and Figure 10 shews a
perspective view of the same fitted together ready for the bird.
In the case of circular or other cages of a curved shape I divide the cage vertically
into two halves or approximately so, (one half shewn in Figure 1) and provide the
horizontal bars A with lugs, pins, or hooks B at one end and with corresponding
recesses Cat the other end, so that when the two halves or parts of the cage are fitted
together the lugs, pins, or hooks B on one half or part take into recesses C on the
contiguous horizontal bars A of the other half or part. In Figure 1, I have shewn

page_text: the top horizontal bar furnished with a hook and the other horizontal bars with loops
in place of lugs, but this is a mere detail, the recesses C in the other half or part of
the cage being male so as to take the hook and loops. In Figure 8 I have shewn a
broken section of the two parts or halves of the cage fitted together looking from the
inside of the cage and shewing four adjacent wires two of each half or part of the cage.
In this Figure the hook and lugs or loops B on the half or part on the right hand side
are in position in their respective recesses in the contiguous horizontal bars of the
half or part on the left hand side. The end wire D of each half is turned at right
angles at E and soldered, brazed, or otherwise affixed to the next wire F, so as to
leave a rectangular aperture G through which the seed or water trough is inserted.
To cah of the said end wires D I also rigidly affix a short wire H turned outside the
cage into a loop or eye J at right angles to the plane of the wire D. The two loops
or eyes J are arranged so as to lie one above the other. when the two halves of the
cago are fitted together. Enlarged views of these loops or eyes are shewn in side
elevation and plan in Figure 9.
Figures 5, 6 and 7 shew respectively front and back elevation and plan of one of
the troughs. To cover the aperture G in the cage, the trough is attached to a back-
plate furnished with slot or opening L through which the loops or eyes J pass.. The
two loops or eyes J are secured to each other, and the trough is secured to the cage
by means of the catch-piece M sliding vertically in a staple N fixed to the outside of
the back-plate K. This catch-piece M is preferably turned up at the end as shewn
at m so as to form a spring to prevent the catch working out of the loops or eyes J.
On to the side of the back-plate K is rigidly affixed a short tube O which fits over
a pin affixed to the side of the cage or to one of the wires thereof, so as to form a
hinge or pivot to allow the trough to be turned outwards when the catch M is
withdrawn from the eyes J, whereby the trough may be replenished when required,
without the necessity of entirely removing it from the cage.
Figure 2 shews the bell provided with a central spindle P threaded at its lower
end. When the two halves of the cage are together, the two bosses R to which the
ends of all the wires are affixed, are so arranged that one lies beneath the other,
and each is provided with a central hole Q through which the spindle P is passed.
The ring S is suspended from a swivel nut T which is screwed over the threaded end
of the spindle P, thus securing the cage at the top, and at the same time, securing
the bell and ring to the cage. Figure 3 shews the perch, and Figure 4 the bottom
of the cage. The cage is secured to the bottom by means of two or more catch-
pieces U on the bottom sliding into staples V on the cage.
In Figures 11 and 12 I have shewn a square parrot cage divided vertically across
its diagonal. It is similar to the circular cage described with reference to Figures 1
to 10 except that one end of each section is provided with hooks B which overlap
the contiguous horizontal bars of the other section and thus secure the two sections
together.
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Figure 13 shews a front elevation of a waggon cage for small birds with a
semicircular or arched top W hinged to one of the longitudinal sides, or it may be
removeable therefrom and secured to the other longitudinal side X by the sliding
catch and staple Y. Figures 14 to 18 are diagrammatic views of this cage. The
ends ware hinged to the sides X in any well-known manner such for example as a
wire on the side passing through a tube on the end or vice versa.
The centre of the wires w² of the ends are also similarly hinged so that each
end will fold inwards or outwards as required. Figure 14 shews an end view of the
cage, fully open, Figure 15 shews it partially closed, and Figure 16 shews it closed
entirely. Figure 17 is a plan of Figure 15 with the top W removed, and Figure 18
is a similar plan of Figure 16. All these Figures shew the ends folding inwards
and I prefer this as they then fit within the hinged top W as shown in Figure 16,
but the ends may if desired be made to fold outwards or diagonally. In place of
hinging the central wires w² of the ends, I may hinge the central wires of the
sides in which case the sides of the cage may be folded transversely inwards or

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outwards as desired, the top being of course secured to one of the ends or removeable.
The body of the ". waggon cage shewn in Figures 13 to 18 is secured to the
bottom by a sliding catch and staple.
I am aware that, to render bird and other cages portable, it has been already
proposed to divide them vertically into two sections, by providing them with remove-
able wires on opposite sides, but the trouble and time required in threading these
wires in their proper position when putting the cage together again is against this
mode of construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what. I
claim is
(1) In bird and other cages, the sides of which are made in two vertical sections,
the means for fastening herein shewn and described consisting of hooks, loops, or
lugs B, and corresponding recesses C, eyes or loops J lying one beneath the other
through which the catch M on the back of the trough is passed, thus securing the two
sections together, and the trough to the sides of the cage, substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
(2) The modification of my invention shewn in Figures 11 and 12, wherein the
two vertical sections of a square or angle shaped cage are secured by the hooks B
taking over the ends of the contiguous horizontal bars A, substantially as shewn and
described.
(3) A portable cage wherein the sides and ends are hinged or pivotted together,
the central wires of the sides or ends being also hinged so that they may be folded
over on themselves outwards or inwards, substantially as described and shewn in
Figures 13 to 18.
(4) My improvements in bird and other cages, substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of July 1890.
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.