ELEMENT FOR PICKUP ANIMAL FECES

• US 20120174869A1
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: New Tone S.N.C. Di Deppieri E. & Partners
• Original Assignee: New Tones SNC Di Deppieri E & Partners
• Inventors: Deppieri, Erminio Walter
• Application Number:
  US13/394,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20120174869A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 119/161
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 1/1206 for picking up excrements manure or urine pouches for animal husbandry A01K23/00
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 2001/126 the implement being for single use but not glove-like

Abstract

A collection element for animal feces including a container to contain the feces collected and a shovel to collect the feces and, in a completely closed position before being used, is pocket sized and flat in shape. The collection element for animal feces is made from a single sheet of rigid or semi-rigid paper, cardboard or other analogous or comparable material, shaped and foldable along a plurality of folding lines and suitably glued on a very limited part of its surface, wherein a part of the single sheet constitutes the container selectively closable on one side, and another part constitutes the shovel, separable, in use, from the single sheet and hence from the container, along a pre-cutting line.

Claims

1. Collection element for animal feces, comprising a container able to contain the feces collected and a shovel able to collect the feces, said collection element, in a completely closed position before being used, being pocket sized and flat in shape,

wherein the collection element is made from a single sheet shaped and foldable along a plurality of folding lines and suitably glued on a very limited part of its surface,

wherein a part of the single sheet constitutes the container, selectively closable on one side, and another part constitutes the shovel, said shovel being separable, in use, from the single sheet and hence from the container along a pre-cutting line.

2. The collection element as in claim 1, wherein the collection element comprises a closing face able to stiffen the container during the collection of the feces and to close the container after use.

3. The collection element as in claim 2, wherein said closing face comprises a closing lip and an attachment end, equipped with an eyelet cooperating with an attachment element present on the collection element for animal feces.

4. The collection element as in claim 3, wherein said attachment element is a tongue.

5. The collection element as in claim 1, wherein the container is delimited laterally by two containing faces partly glued together, and is closed at one end by two closing lips folded along the folding line.

6. The collection element as in claim 5, wherein the two closing lips have a convex free end and a concave folding line.

7. The collection element as in claim 1, wherein the shovel has two raised gripping lips able to facilitate the gripping thereof and to reduce the risk of contact with the feces.

8. The collection element as in claim 5, wherein the containing face has the operations to be performed in order to collect the feces printed thereon.

9. The collection element as in claim 1, the single sheet comprising rigid or semi-rigid paper, cardboard or other analogous or comparable material.

10. The collection element as in claim 1, the single sheet comprising rigid or semi-rigid paper or cardboard.

11. The collection element as in claim 1, the single sheet comprising rigid or semi-rigid material.