Dog feces collection device

• US 5,236,237 A
• Filed: 04/20/1992
• Issued: 08/17/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clair W. Shultz
• Original Assignee: Clair W. Shultz
• Inventors: Shultz, Clair W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cherry, Johnny D.
• Application Number:
  US07/871,001
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 294/1.3-1.5, 294/53.5, 294/55, 15/104.8, 15/257.1, 15/257.2, 15/257.4-257.8
• US Class Current: 294/1.4
• 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

An open-ended container is carried on the end of a handle; and that connection is by a bail-wire, of a general U-shape, whose ends are rotatably mounted on the container side walls, the bail-wire'"'"'s central or bight portion of the bail being rotatably connected to the handle by a pivotal connection which is also slidable. These features and their details provide that an easy swinging effort by the dog'"'"'s owner will cause the container to swing to a reception condition in which the handle'"'"'s scooper member is on the far side of the feces, and the container is in a position with its open end facing the feces. Then, by a pull upwardly on the handle, the feces is pushed toward and into the container; and then, merely by the owner'"'"'s continuousness of the upward pull of the handle, the container swings to its carrying or at-rest condition, with its open end up, and with the feces safely carried in the bottom of the container. It is an easy and quick one-hand movement by the owner, with no danger of soiling his hands or shoes.

Claims

1. A dog feces collection device comprising, in combination:

a pickup bucket;

a pickup scooper;

a handle;

the handle having;

a top end portion, which provides grasping and holding means for manual manipulation of components as set forth below; and

a bottom end, on which is carried the pickup scooper;

a movable link;

a link having;

a first link end, which is pivotally connected to a side wall of the bucket, and

a second link end, which is pivotally connected to the handle near the handle'"'"'s bottom end, but spaced therefrom a distance such that the pickup bucket has enough clearance that the bucket may pass under the bottom end of the handle as the second link end and the bucket move with respect to one another during both a scooper-positioning step and a feces collection step;

in a combination in which the link is a bail-wire having a bight portion which passes transversely through the handle and is relatively movable with respect to the handle around the axis of the bight portion of the bail-wire.

2. A dog feces collection device, as set forth in claim 1, in a combination in which the handle has a portion which provides that the pivotal connection of the handle with the link is provided to have a short axial recess, thereby providing an axial slidability of the link relative to the handle so that the end of the handle/scooper assembly may be moved relatively linearly along the ground.

3. A dog feces collection device, comprising, in combination:

a pickup bucket;

a pickup scooper;

a handle;

the handle having;

a top end portion, which provides grasping and holding means for manual manipulation of components as set forth below; and

a bottom end, on which is carried the pickup scooper;

a movable link;

the link having;

a first link end, which is pivotally connected to a side wall of the bucket, and

a second link end, which is pivotally connected to the handle near the handle'"'"'s bottom end, but spaced therefrom a distance such that the pickup bucket has enough clearance that the bucket may pass under the bottom end of the handle as the second link end and the bucket move with respect to one another during both a scooper-positioning step and a feces collection step;

in a combination in which the handle has a portion which provides that the pivotal connection of the handle with the link is provided to have a short axial recess, thereby providing an axial slidability of the link relative to the handle so that the end of the handle/scooper assembly may be moved relatively linearly along the ground.