Animal feces pick-up device

• US 20060175849A1
• Filed: 03/28/2006
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ian H. Warn, Philip R. Warn
• Original Assignee: Ian H. Warn, Philip R. Warn
• Inventors: Warn, Philip R., Warn, Ian H.
• Application Number:
  US11/390,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20060175849A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 294/1.400
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 1/1206 for picking up excrements manure or urine pouches for animal husbandry A01K23/00
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 2001/1293 Walking cane or the like, i.e. implements allowing handling while in an upright position

Abstract

A feces pick-up device combined with a GPS unit. The device includes a handle and jaw configuration which allows the operator to pick up waste ahead and spaced from the operator.

Claims

1. A feces collection device comprising:

a collection member for providing a way to pick up an animal feces; and

a positioning device allowing for tracking of movement of an operator of the device.

2. The feces collection device of claim 1 wherein said positioning device is a Global Positioning System or loran device capable of showing the ground track.

3. The feces collection device of claim 1 wherein said collection member further comprises a handle operably associated with closeable jaws such that feces can be picked up spaced from and in front of the operator.

4. The feces collection device of claim 3 wherein the handle further comprises an arm engaging area, a grip portion and a handle extension wherein the angle between a plane passing through the jaws and the handle is at an angle of from about 50 to about 85°

.

5. The feces collection device of claim 3 wherein the angle is from about 30°

to 75°

.

6. The feces collection device of claim 5 wherein the angle between the arm engagement portion and the handle portion is from about 90°

to about 150°

.

7. A feces collection apparatus comprising:

a handle member configured for extending in front of an operator of said apparatus;

a jaw member attached to said handle, said jaw member configured for closing of its jaws substantially parallel to the ground wherein the angle between the ground and said handle member is from about 50 to about 85°

; and

a remote apparatus for allowing the operator to close the jaw member.

8. The feces collection apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a GPS or loran unit attached to said handle.

9. A feces collection apparatus comprising:

a handle member configured for extending in front of an operator of said apparatus;

a jaw member attached to said handle member;

an apparatus for allowing remote closing of said jaw member by said operator;

said handle and said jaw member being operably associated such that the jaws can be closed for picking up feces spaced in front of the operator.

10. The feces collection apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a GPS or loran attached to said apparatus.