Patent ID: 6923143

Claim:
A base assembly for a bird cage comprising, a base and a removable tray slidable on and off the base, said base having an upwardly extending side wall and said tray having an upwardly extending side wall, said side walls together encircling the tray and base when the tray is fully disposed on the base, a guard attached to the base and registering with the side walls of the tray and base, said tray being removable from the base assembly without moving the guard or base and said guard is a baffle for deflecting bird waste into the tray; a grill disposed on the tray and movable with the tray in and out of the base; and means are provided on the tray and base causing the tray to drop closer to the bottom wall of the base when the tray is partially withdrawn from the base enabling the grill to be removed from the tray without fully removing the tray from the base.