Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Often portable – small capacity – roofed housing structure
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-15
2001-05-08
Jordan, Charles T. (Department: 3644)
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Often portable, small capacity, roofed housing structure
C119S500000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06227147
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to air treatment of the surroundings of a house pet, such as a cat or dog.
The invention relates to a variation of an invention, which is the subject of a copending patent application, which is a method for transferring preconditioned air from human domicile to doghouse. The average dog house has a floor, roof and four walls. There is an opening in one end for entry. Dog houses are generally positioned in the back yard of the owners home. They are too hot or cold, stuffy and damp, therefore are seldom used. Geographically transplanted animals suffer most. (Such as Alaskan Huskies in Houston, Tex.). It is not always convenient to have your animal in the house. Even letting them in and our can sometimes be dangerous. (We forget!) There are also many diseases and parasites associated with lying on the open ground. A climate controlled, guilt free, safe house on the outside of the home that would always be accessible to the animal would be highly desirable to both pet and owner. The most common reason, (according to the Houston S.P.C.A.), for people abandoning their pets is, “I can't have them in the house and can't stand to see them suffer.”
This variation is a cat toilet. The invention utilizes a similar construction for the removal of cat excrement odors from a cat toilet used inside a house to outside of a human house.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a safe and comfortable toilet for cats to use inside a house with a device, which sucks the nasty odors from the cat toilet and expels them outside of the existing home through a window.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The cat toilet comprises a box that has an intake and an exhaust. The box has a bottom, top and four sides. It has a snout adapted receive piping from a motor and filter apparatus, which is connected to a house window. In the motor and filter apparatus, there is a flap attached to the innermost portion of the snout to allow airflow when open and seal when shut. The flap also has a short rod attached in such a way as to make and unmake a micro switch turning the box fan on when open and off when shut. There is a box fan. 12 volt, 24 volt or 110 volt electricity can be used. The box fan is mounted at the exhaust at the outer most inside portion of the manifold box. There is a micro switch positioned on the floor of the box adjacent to the wall in relation to the micro switch rod on the flap. There is a fine mesh wire bug screen inserted and removable at the inside portion of the snout. There is a two inch tube protruding out from the outermost portion of the manifold box as a joining coupler for flex hose.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5134972 (1992-08-01), Compagnucci
patent: 5140948 (1992-08-01), Roberts
patent: 5315964 (1994-05-01), Mimms et al.
patent: 5738040 (1998-04-01), Simmons
Buskop Wendy K.
Buskop Law Group
Jordan Charles T.
Shaw Elizabeth
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