Pet potty

• US 8,656,863 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2012
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mikael Havluciyan
• Original Assignee: Mikael Havluciyan
• Inventors: Havluciyan, Mikael
• Primary Examiner(s): BANIANI, SHADI SHUNTI
• Application Number:
  US13/571,351
• Publication Number:
  US 20120298046A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 119/161, 119/165, 119/166, 119/479, 119/167, 119/170, 119/452, 119/459, 119/471, 119/480, 424/51, 424/54, 424/56
• US Class Current: 119/165
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 1/0107 Cat trays; Dog urinals; Toilets for pets

Abstract

A pet potty includes a base plate and a grid. The base plate has a base and a wall along the perimeter of the base, the base and wall impermeable to fluid and forming a cavity capable of retaining fluid. The grid is sized to fit within the cavity of the base plate and has a complex of beams that can support a pet atop the grid. The beams have a top side and a bottom side, and substantially all of the beams are convex in shape on their top side.

Claims

1. A pet potty comprising:

a base plate consisting of a base and a wall along the perimeter of the base, the base and wall impermeable to fluid and forming a cavity capable of retaining fluid, wherein the base plate is made of a unibody construction;

two or more grids that are sized to fit within the cavity of the base plate such that when the grids are placed in the cavity horizontally adjacent one another the grids are substantially immovable in any horizontal direction and the grids are in direct contact with one another, each grid comprises a complex of beams that can support a pet atop the grid, wherein the beams have a top side and a bottom side, and wherein substantially all of the beams are convex in shape on their top side;

a first series of two or more protective disposable layers of flexible material adhered to the top of one of the two or more grids; and

does not block openings in the two or more grids; and

a second series of two or more protective disposable layers of flexible material adhered to the top of the other of the two or more grids; and

does not block openings in the two or more grids; and

wherein the first and second series of two or more protective disposable layers of flexible material configured to be peeled off and removed, revealing another of the two or more protective disposable layers of flexible material below it.

2. The pet potty of claim 1, wherein the bottom side of the beams do not touch the base when the grids are positioned in the cavity of the base plate.

3. The pet potty of claim 2, wherein the beams of the grids are supported by a plurality of columns that extend downward from the bottom side of the beams toward the base, and wherein the columns touch the base when the grids are positioned in the cavity of the base plate.

4. The pet potty of claim 1, wherein the beams of the grids are supported by a plurality of columns that extend downward from the bottom side of the beams toward the base, and wherein the columns touch the base when the grids are positioned in the cavity of the base plate.

5. The pet potty of claim 1, wherein each grid comprises a finger port along an edge of the grid for removing the grid from the base plate.

6. The pet potty of claim 1, wherein each grid comprises a plurality of spacers extending laterally from the grid, wherein the spacers space the grid a distance from the wall of the base plate.

7. The pet potty of claim 1, wherein the complex of beams form openings between the beams, and wherein the openings are no more than ⅜

of an inch across the opening.

8. The pet potty of claim 7, wherein the openings are round, elliptical, or polygonal.

9. The pet potty of claim 1, further comprising a raised wall around part of the perimeter of the base plate.

10. The pet potty of claim 9, wherein the raised wall has a drainage lip that extends laterally from the raised wall toward the cavity of the base plate, such that when fluid drains down the raised wall, it drains into the cavity from the drainage lip.

11. The pet potty of claim 1, wherein the beams are at lest about 0.15 inches thick such that when a dog is atop the grids, the beams cushion the dog'"'"'s paw pads.