Animal cage and support apparatus

• US 3,225,738 A
• Filed: 10/07/1963
• Issued: 12/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Luis A. Palencia
• Original Assignee: Luis A. Palencia
• Inventors: Palencia, Luis A.
• Application Number:
  US04/314,332
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• US Class Current: 119/455
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 1/031 Cages for laboratory animals; Cages for measuring metabolism of animals

Claims

1. AN ASSEMBLY OF ANIMAL CAGES COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A CAGE SUPPORT MEANS, A PLURALITY OF CONTIGUOUS SUPERIMPOSED ANIMAL CAGE UNITS EACH HAVING AN INTERCONNECTED GENERALLY RECTANGULAR CSAGE BODY, EACH SAID CAGE BODY HAVING SPACED ENGAGING MEANS FORMED ON A WALL THEREOF WHICH ARE IN DETACHABLE ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID CAGE SUPPORT MEANS, SAID CAGE SUPPORT MEANS HAVING A LOWER CAGE SUPPORTING FRAME WHICH RECEIVES A FIRST CAGE THEREON AND HAVING FIXEDLY SECURED TO ONE SIDE OF THE SUPPORTING FRAME TWO SPACED VERTICALLY EXTENDING CAGE SUPPORT BARS, EACH SAID CAGE SUPPORT BARS HAVING A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY ALIGNED CAGE SUPPORT ELEMENTS AT SPACED POINTS ALONG THE LENGTH THEREOF WHICH ARE DISPOSED OPPOSITE CAGE SUPPORT ELEMENTS ON AN ADJACENT CAGE SUPPORT BAR, AND EACH PAIR OF OPPOSITELY DISPOSED CAGE SUPPORT ELEMENTS BEING IN DETACHABLE SUPPORTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SAID SPACED ENGAGING MEANS FORMED ON A WALL OF EACH OF SAID CAGE BODIES, SAID CAGE SUPPORT ELEMENTS BEING VERTICALLY SPACED APART A DISTANCE EQUAL TO THE OVERALL VERTICAL HEIGHT OF EACH CAGE;

WHEREBY A PLURALITY OF ANIMAL CAGES CAN BE MAINTAINED ASSEMBLIED AS A UNITARY GROUP OF SUPERIMPOSED CAGES AND WITH EACH CAGE CONTACTING AN ADJACENT CAGE.