Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Sanitary handler for pet droppings
Patent
1996-06-24
1998-08-25
Cherry, Johnny D.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Sanitary handler for pet droppings
152576, 294 55, A01K 2900, E01H 112
Patent
active
057976368
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a collection device for loose material, preferably excrement. The invention relates particularly to immediate collection of dogs excrement by a disposable collection device. With the device excrement can be collected and packed from a place requiring common tidiness, such as passageways, yards and parks.
The collection of dogs excrement has during years been tried to solve by various devices. The most common collection devices comprise a small plastic bag to protect the hand, whereby the bag after collection of excrement is turned around and closed. A plastic glove has a similar operational principle. A paper bag, into which excrement is lifted by a small plastic shovel, has sometimes been used regardless of the transportation problems of the soiled shovel. There are also collection devices more rarely used, such as a device provided with a metal handle and to which a plastic bag can be set. Special collection bags and assembly boxes are also known equipped with a separate plate to push the excrement in, and a stick, the lower end of which has a box or plastic bag. The use of such devices for collection of excrement is however rather insignificant in spite of the continuously growing number of dogs. In cities and densely populated areas the master neglects the collection of his dog's excrement regardless of people's glances of re-proof The inability/unwillingness of the masters to solve the excretion problem may partly arise from the fact, that a practical and reasonably-priced excrement collection device has not been available.
The object of the present invention is to solve the problems connected with the excrement collection and to provide a novel excrement collection device, which is hygienic, easy to use and enables immediate collection of excrement without any unpleasant feeling.
This object will be obtained by the excrement collection device described above, the features of which are presented in the enclosed claims.
Advantages of the invention are derived from the fact that the excrement collection device is small in size, flat, and easily portable, that the collection device although flat in its basic condition, can be pressed into a rigid collection funnel shape, and that the collection device has a pulling means making possible a turning of the shutters in the device without touching them by hand to close the mouth opening such that excrement can be hygienically and conveniently packed.
The invention will be described in the following as an example embodiment with reference to the following drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows as an inside view of the excrement collection device according to the invention in the spread-out condition;
FIG. 2 shows as an oblique forward view of the excrement collection device according to the invention, the mouth opening being pressed open, i.e. ready for use;
FIG. 3 shows the excrement collection device according to the invention in a folded condition, e.g. for transportation in the pocket;
FIG. 4 shows the excrement collection device according to the invention after the use when the mouth opening is closed, i.e. the excrement being packed;
FIG. 5 shows an inside view of another embodiment of the excrement collection device according to the invention in the spread-out condition; and
FIG. 6 shows the excrement collection device according to the FIG. 5 embodiment ready for use.
With reference to FIGS. 1-4 the excrement collection device according the first advantageous embodiment of the present invention is described. The collection device comprises a carton cut into a wedge like shape or corresponding material element. In this embodiment the broader end of the element has been formed as two arches with essentially the same form and size. Concave arch folds 4 have also been formed to the element mainly as mirror images of the arches. Concave folds and convex arches begin and end at the same points, and they additionally define the shutters 10 and 11 folding to the element.
In order to make the funnel-shaped excrement collection device of the ab
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