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Litter box with apparatus for catchiing and returning tracked litter and method of assembling the litter box

  • US 8,733,286 B2
  • Filed: 12/31/2011
  • Issued: 05/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A litter box having apparatus for catching and automatically returning tracked litter back into the litter box, the litter box comprising:

  • a container for containing litter for use by an animal, the container defining an opening for allowing exit of the animal from the container and a litter return window;

    a pathway extending from the opening, the pathway having a plurality of slots there along for passage therethrough of the litter tracked by the animal when the animal travels along the pathway after exiting the container through the opening; and

    a litter return slide disposed beneath the pathway and configured to catch the tracked litter passing down through each of the plurality of slots, the litter return slide having a first end in communication with the litter return window and being downwardly sloped to the first end for slidably returning the tracked litter through the litter return window and back into the container automatically.

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