Patent ID: 7174853

Claim:
A portable alley way with collapsible crowding tub comprising: a fifth wheel gooseneck; an elongate alley way having opposed first and second sides with a top and a bottom and an opening at a first end and an opening at a second end; a collapsible crowding tub having an opening communicating with the opening at the second end of the alley way; the collapsible crowding tub comprising: a top brace extending from the top of the second end of the alley way to the fifth wheel gooseneck; a plurality of curved panels; means for releasibly connecting the curved panels together end-to-end in a substantially semi-circular pattern surrounding the fifth wheel hitch in equidistant and spaced-apart relation thereto and means for connecting an end curved panel to the first side of the alley way adjacent the opening at the second end of the alley way; an extension panel having one end connected to the second side of the alley way adjacent the opening at the second end of the alley way and having a second end connected to the fifth wheel gooseneck; a plurality of rod brace members, each rod brace member extending from the fifth wheel gooseneck to one of the curved panels; a gate having one end pivotally attached to the fifth wheel gooseneck; the gate having a length slightly less then the spaced apart distance of the curved panels from the fifth wheel gooseneck whereby the gate may swing in an arc within the semi-circular pattern of the curved panels; and means for latching the gate to a selected curved panel.