Animal husbandry – Entomological culture device – Egg treatment – production – or storage
Patent
1986-10-13
1988-11-15
Peshock, Robert
Animal husbandry
Entomological culture device
Egg treatment, production, or storage
A01K 100
Patent
active
047840838
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention is related to a cat-toilet, having a lower part in the form of an upwardly open bowl and a replaceable bag filled with cat litter inserted into the lower part. The upper end part of the replaceable bag which after being inserted inserting into the lower part and opened is folded out for use. The bag can be folded together again, after use of the litter, by closing the bag at least preliminarily the bag is provided with an upper part which can be positioned on the lower part after having the end part of the bag folded out for temporarily covering the upper edge portion of the lower part and securing the folded out end part of the bag on the upper peripherial edge of the lower part.
As is well known, it is easy to make cats familiar with the use of placing their urine and droppings into a container intended for that purpose. Such containers, designated as cat-toilets, which in former times usually had been filled with sand, nowadays more and more are filled with a special porous, adsorbing and odor diminishing material, so-called cat-litter, as a preferred example being described in DE-A-No. 29 02 079.
A problem with such cat-toilets is that the cat-litter must be replaced at regular intervals. It is not hygienic simply to deposit the cat-toilet content into a waste-container or the like, since development of dust and odor cannot be avoided when doing so. Therefore it is desired to have the ability to replace cat-litter of such cat-toilets after use hygienically and without dust development.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,771,493 describes a cat-toilet of the aforementioned kind in which an upper part in ring-form is put onto the lower part which has the form of a dish. A disadvantage of this well-known cat-toilet is that the bag itself has no shape stability, so that it is necessary to place the bag with relatively great diligence into the lower part in order to have a reliable fitting. Otherwise the danger exists that when folding out the upper bag part over the peripherial edge of the lower part cat-litter falls out of the bag. Similar cat-toilets are known from DE-A-No. 26 13 659 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,990,396, DE-A-No. 31 17 900 describes a double-bag for removal of droppings in the domestic pet care field which, after having been used, is again closed and thereupon disposed of. The aforementioned double-bag has a disadvantage of a rather complicated and sophisticated structure and therefore causes rather high manufacturing costs, with the further result of a great amount of material to be used and therefore of considerable material costs.
Therefore the invention is intended to create a cat-toilet of the aforementioned kind which can be produced economically. Furthermore the invention makes it possible to hygienically, reliably and simply handle the cat-toilet as well when starting use thereof as well as when removing it. In particular the invention provides a bag, especially useful in connection with such a cat-toilet, which can be filled with cat-litter. The manufacturing of such a bag being realizable automatically and with low costs with the bag being fillable with pourable material of different kinds. Furthermore an object of the invention is to create a foil-packaging as well as a method of manufacturing the aforementioned kind, which guarantee the solution of the aforementioned task.
According to the invention a cat-toilet is proposed which is characterized in that the lower part essentially has the form of a rectangular case open at its upper side, that the upper part has the form of a substantially rectangular frame, and the bag has the form of a flat parallelepiped, the outer dimension of which corresponds substantially to the inner dimension of the lower part.
As an alternative thereto it can be provided that the lower part has the form of a dish and the upper part has the form of a ring, that the bottom of the bag consists of a semi-rigid material shaped to correspond to the bottom of the lower part, and that the bottom of the bag is provided with a stabilizing surrounding peripheral strip.
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