Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Sanitary handler for pet droppings – Pole mounted
Patent
1997-02-28
1998-06-02
Kramer, Dean
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Sanitary handler for pet droppings
Pole mounted
2941193, 152573, A01K 2900
Patent
active
057589178
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a device for catching and containing dog faeces.
Animals are in general not particular about where they defecate. The streets, parks and pavements of towns everywhere are littered with, especially, dog excreta. It is unsightly, unhygienic, inconvenient and in the case of canine animals can harbour dangerous diseases such as toxocara which affects humans. Devices for the receiving and disposal of animal, particuarly dog, faeces have been proposed previously and have been disclosed in for example U.S. Pat. No. 4,466,647 (Spevak), U.S. Pat. No. 3,977,422 (Cabaluna); U.S. Pat. No. 4,003,595 (Fado) and G 2218896 (Yoshioka). Such devices including that disclosed in FR-A-2444752 have proved to be unsatisfactory for a variety of reasons including bulkiness; complexity of use; risk of faecal matter contamination; expense or simply that they are not practicable for use by dogs and their owners.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a device that can be used by dog owners in such a way as to avoid or minimise one or more of the above disadvantages.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides an animal faeces collector device comprising a collapsible elongate handle means provided at a distal end with a receptacle having an upwardly facing deposition surface in a deployed condition of the device for receiving a faecal deposit thereon, said elongate handle means being formed and arranged for supporting the receptacle in empty and faecally-loaded conditions thereof, and said elongate handle means and said receptacle being formed and arranged so as to be collapsible into a highly compact pocketable form in a collapsed state of the device, and to be deployable to a substantially self-supporting state in a deployed state of the device, said device being of lightweight form of construction with said handle means formed and arranged so as to have a rigidity sufficient for cantilevered supporting of said upwardly facing deposition surface of said receptacle in an empty condition thereof for a substantially positive remote manipulation of the receptacle into a faeces receiving position relative to an animal, in use of the device, characterized in that said handle means is formed and arranged with a substantially restricted rigidity and a lightness of construction, to facilitate easy and economic disposability of the device, and which is substantially insufficient for cantilevered supporting of the receptacle in a faecally-loaded condition thereof; and in that said receptacle is securely connected to said handle means.
Preferably said receptacle for receiving faecal deposits is itself deployable from a substantially collapsed state to a substantially self supporting deployed state defining said upwardly facing deposition surface in said deployed state of the device for receiving faecal deposits thereon whereby in use of said device, said receptacle may be deployed and positioned under a dog in the defecating position for the sanitary collection of faecal deposits.
Such devices of the present invention are based upon inter alia a recognition, for the first time, that the receptacle and the handle means can be made to be extremely lightweight with very limited rigidity just sufficient to be self supporting and to position and direct the empty receptacle more or less accurately relative to the animal's anus. Once a faecal deposit has been made on the receptacle the latter will become considerably heavier. At this stage though it is no longer necessary to have the same directional control over the receptacle, and it is sufficient simply to be able to carry this in a convenient manner. This can though be achieved with a very lightweight handle and/or other support means which have sufficient tensile strength--which can be achieved with a much lighter construction than can a rigid handle means relying on the rigidity thereof (e.g. in leverage) to carry the same weight. Thus such devices of the invention can be made with a much more compact and
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