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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1994
Steven A Monetti, Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
Catherine J Monetti, Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A disposable, collapsible pet house foldable from a unitary blank of material received in a flat state, the house being foldable from the blank between a collapsed state for shipping, storage and disposal and an enclosed, erect state for use, the house comprising a container portion having a bottom, a pair of oppositely opposed sidewalls extending upwardly from and integral with the bottom, and a pair of oppositely opposed end walls extending upwardly from and integral with the bottom, the pair of end walls being connected to the pair of sidewalls; a pair of sidewall panels, each integral with a different one of a pair of sidewalls; a pair of end wall panels, each integral with a different one of a pair of end walls, at least one of the pair of end wall panels having an opening therein for ingress and egress of a pet when the house is in the erect state; a pair of roof panels, each integral with a different one of the pair of sidewall panels, one of the pair of roof panels overlapping a portion of the other of the pair of roof panels when the house is in the erect state; and a releasable arrangement associated with each of the pair of roof panels and the pair of end wall panels to interconnect the same to provide the house with stability in the erect state; the pair of end wall panels and the other of the pair of roof panels and its associated one of the pair of sidewall panels being foldable into the container portion and the one of the pair of roof panels and its associated one of the pair of sidewall panels being foldable to cover the pair of end wall panels and the other of the pair of roof panels and its associated one of the pair of sidewall panels and extending over one of the pair of sidewalls and a portion of the bottom to be in an interlocking relation with the bottom when in the collapsed state.