Portable worm-breeding chamber

Claim 1

A portable worm-growing apparatus which includes an upwardly opening enclosure member having an upper terminal end, sidewalls, and a bottom, with the interior of said enclosure member forming a worm-growing chamber in which worms would grow if kept living therein; means forming a second upwardly opening enclosure member having an upper terminal end, a bottom, and sidewalls; the first recited enclosure member having a circumferentially extending ledge which forms a shoulder with said shoulder being spaced intermediate said bottom and said terminal end of said first recited enclosure member; said upper terminal end of said second enclosure member engaging said shoulder with the wall and bottom of said second enclosure member spaced from said first sidewalls and bottom cooperating with a portion of the first enclosure member to thereby form a dead air space about the worm chamber; a closure member adapted to be received by the first said upper terminal end; a worm excluder for preventing worms from crawling out of said chamber, said excluder being received by said ledge and within said enclosure member and spaced apart from said upper terminal end and said bottom to thereby define said worm-growing chamber between said excluder and said bottom; said excluder having means forming an opening into said worm chamber, the outer edge portion of said excluder being defined by a frame from which there depends an inwardly extending member which terminates in an edge portion with said edge portion defining the opening into said worm chamber; said frame being coextensive with and placed adjacent to said ledge to thereby leave said inwardly extending edge portion spaced aparT from said sidewalls; a frame member and a screen, said screen being attached thereto with said frame member being superimposed upon said excluder frame and forming an insect barrier and retainer for said first enclosure whereby a worm must encounter said inwardly directed edge portion of said excluder when attempting to crawl from the chamber.