Floor assembly for animal enclosures

Claim 1

A slotted floor for animal enclosures particularly adapted for installation and use in overlying relationship to a waste material receiving area, said floor including: a plurality of elongate, tubular, plastic members each having top, bottom and opposed side walls; longitudinal flange means on and extending outwardly from each side wall of each member adjacent the bottom of the latter; and a plurality of separate, elongate, plastic clip and support elements disposed beneath and transversely to said members and each having first and second, longitudinally spaced pairs of longitudinally spaced and opposed notch presenting means, each of said pairs of notch presenting means receiving and gripping said opposite flange means on the side walls of a corresponding member to hold the members received by each element in laterally spaced, parallel relationship to each other with a waste clearing slot therebetween and in communication with said receiving area therebeneath, each adjacent pair of said elements being offset from each other both laterally thereof and longitudinally of said members and overlapped with each other longitudinally thereof, each adjacent pair of said elements receiving and gripping a member common to said pair of elements, whereby said members are all retained by said elements in predetermined spaced relationship to each other to present said slotted floor.