ES1063078U - Collector for excrements of animals (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Collector for animal excrement, especially for canine excrement deposited on the public road, characterized because it is constituted by the functional combination of a deposit or collection box, cardboard, plastic or other disposable material with disposable character, and a gifted handle of fixing and decoupling means for said deposit, it being provided that the deposit incorporates in its lower base a plurality of holes that affect it mainly, so that its support on the excrement determines that the latter pass through said holes into the interior of the container. Deposit and stay stable in the heart of it. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Picker for animal droppings.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a dustpan of excrement, which has been specially designed to collect from the street dog droppings, but that is equally applicable to the collection of excrement of other animals of company that realize their physiological needs on the road publish.

The object of the invention is to achieve a Easy and comfortable handling, which also ensures optimum guarantees from the point of view of cleanliness.

Background of the invention

It is known the problem of public hygiene that supposes that huge amounts of dogs defecate on the track public and that in a high percentage of cases their owners do not collect the excrement of said public thoroughfare.

While this problem is partly generated by a lack of civic education, there is no doubt that a good part of It is due to disgust or rejection that occurs on them during the excrement collection maneuver, maneuver that, with the currently known pickers, it must be done in situation of maximum proximity to these excrements, sometimes with a contact on them through a thin sheet of plastic, and in most cases having to act manually and directly on a plastic bag, which finally receives the  droppings, for disposal in a container or in any another receptacle provided for that purpose.

Description of the invention

The collector proposed by the invention resolves  fully satisfactory way the problem above exposed, allowing the collection of excrement is carried out with a considerable distance between them and the hand of user, in an extraordinarily fast and simple maneuver, which ensures full guarantees of hygiene and cleanliness.

To do this and more specifically said picker  focuses its characteristics primarily on participation in the same of a deposit or collection box proper, disposable, that is, single, preferably cardboard, because of its biodegradable nature, but that can be equally of plastic or other material, deposit that can take a trunk-pyramidal configuration, conical-trunk or similar, and that in any case presents its lower base mostly occupied by a plurality of holes that allow, when pressed with the collector and more specifically with the lower base of said deposit, on the droppings, a penetration of the same inside the tank, with what this set, excrement-collecting tank, can be removed.

In addition to this deposit, the collector incorporates a handle of variable length, which can be even enough for the user to manipulate the picker as a whole, handle that by its lower extremity is It ends in a flared head equipped with coupling means to the  cited deposit. In this sense, the aforementioned head coincides formally. and dimensionally with the upper area of the tank, to which it has to fit tightly, also having interior projections intended for interlocking in complementary holes in the tank, so that such projections and holes allow a coupling Pressed tongue and groove between handle and tank, which ensures a stable fixation between these elements both when the picker is empty as when in a situation of load.

Finally, the aforementioned handle incorporates upper limb an actuator for an inner, tubular arm so that said arm rests on its lower limb on the upper base of the tank, and is able to press on the same, causing the decoupling of said deposit, when it is axially displaced within the handle when acting on the cited upper actuator.

In this way the deposit or collection box remains fixed to the rest of the collector during the collection maneuver and until the moment in which it is placed on a container or any other collection container of the excrements, at which time and when acting on the actuator from the device the detachment of the tank takes place with its corresponding fall inside said container, all without the reusable part of the collector, that is to say the handle with its accessories, has come into contact with the droppings, does not even imply a risk accidental occurrence of said con-
touch.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as an integral part of said description, a set of drawings where with character Illustrative and not limiting, the following has been represented:

Figure 1.- Shows, according to a representation schematic in lateral perspective, a collector for excrement of animals made in accordance with the purpose of this invention.

Figure 2.- Shows, also according to a view in   perspective, the deposit or collection box that participates in the collector of the previous figure, showing its lower base or of Reception of excrement.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In the figures outlined, a tank or collection box for excrement (1) configuration trunk-pyramidal, quadrangular, although said configuration may vary, as previously stated, always and when the tank body is convergent in the direction ascending and present in its lower base (2) holes (3) than the mostly affect, allowing the passage through them excrement when these are pressed by the deposit (1) against the soil, so that when these feces pass inside of the tank through the mentioned holes (3), remain retained inside by the simple adhesion that occurs between droppings and the deposit material, which As previously stated it will be cardboard, plastic or other Similary.

The aforementioned deposit (1) has its upper base (4) closed and at opposite points of its side walls a pair of holes (5) for tongue and groove coupling tank (1), disposable, that is with character mono-use to the head (6) of a handle (7) reusable indefinitely, head (6) that adopts a size and configuration coinciding with those of the top of the tank (1), to which it must be tightly coupled, as seen in Figure 2, and incorporating interior protuberances (8) than in, limit situation of coupling of the head (6) to the tank (1) fit the holes (5) of the latter, retaining it in front of any type of handling of the collector as a whole.

The handle (7) is tubular and inside it establishes an arm (9) preferably also tubular, movable axially in said handle (7) by means of an actuator (10) located at the upper end of the handle (7), as a bushing axially movable, provided with a pusher that is through through a groove (11) of the tubular handle itself (7), dragging I get the inner arm (9), to push on the upper base (4) of the tank (1), causing decoupling and release of the same, once the collection of the excrement within said deposit (1).

According to this structuring, it is enough to face the picker vertically to dog droppings, grabbed by the knob (12) that ends the handle (7) and move towards down said picker as a whole so that the droppings penetrate inside the tank (1) through the holes (3) of its lower base (2), after which the collector can be moved to a container or any other receptacle to urban waste, where when moving the actuator bushing (10) with respect to the handle (7), and consequently when moving axially the inner arm (9), this causes the decoupling of the tank (1), which falls into the container, leaving the rest of the collector perfectly clean and in conditions of receive a new deposit (1) by tongue and groove coupling in the bosom of its flared head (6).

Claims (3)

1. Picker for animal excrement, especially for canine excrement deposited on public roads, characterized in that it is constituted by the functional combination of a deposit or collection box, made of cardboard, plastic or other disposable material with a single character, and a gifted handle of fixing and decoupling means for said deposit, the deposit having been provided to incorporate in its lower base a plurality of holes that mostly affect it, so that its support on the excrements determines that the latter pass through said holes into the interior of the deposit and stay stably within it. 2. Catcher for animal droppings, according to claim 11, characterized in that the tank or collecting box adopts a trunk-pyramidal, trunk-conical configuration or any other convergent upward, and the handle is topped by its lower extremity in a flared head formally and dimensionally suitable to fit tightly to the upper area of the tank, which incorporates at least one pair of opposing holes, intended for the coupling of respective protrusions or internal projections of the head, so that holes and protuberances determine a tongue and groove coupling between the tank and the handle 3. Catcher for animal excrement, according to previous claims, characterized in that the handle is tubular and inside it houses an arm that supports its lower extremity in the upper base of the tank, so that said arm acts as a pusher for decoupling of the deposit and elimination with the excrements inside, said inner arm being attached to the handle integral to an external actuator, materialized in a bushing located at the upper end of the handle, next to a grip knob, bushing that relates to the arm by a radial nexus that plays within a groove of the tubular handle, all in such a way that the axial displacement of the bushing also causes an axial displacement of the arm with the consequent thrust on the upper base of the container deposit of the excrement.