Pet waste collector

• US 9,951,489 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2017
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kebin Rong
• Original Assignee: Kebin Rong
• Inventors: Rong, Kebin
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Stephen A
• Application Number:
  US15/681,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20170342670A1
• Time in Patent Office: 247 Days
• Field of Search: 2 16, 2 20, 2 59, 21616, 21617
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 1/1206 for picking up excrements manure or urine pouches for animal husbandry A01K23/00
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 2001/1226 characterised by way of removing material
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 2001/1246 Double or multiple closing means making horizontal sliding movement (not applied for grabs)

Abstract

A waste collector includes a bag body and a waste collecting apparatus. The bag body, which is made of flexible material, has a top opening and a waste collecting cavity. The waste collecting apparatus includes two elongated scraper arms spacedly affixed at the bag body to partition the bag body into a first bag portion and a second bag portion. When the bag body is reversibly flipped inside out from the top opening to form a temporary waste cavity within the first bag portion of the bag body, the scraper arms are moved toward each other for enclosing the temporary waste cavity within the first bag portion of the bag body and for scraping a waste within the temporary waste cavity. Therefore, the bag body is flipped back for automatically retaining the waste in the waste collecting cavity from the temporary waste cavity.

Claims

1. A waste collector for collecting waste, comprising:

a bag body, which is made of flexible material, having a top opening and a waste collecting cavity and comprising two bag sheets overlapped with each other to form said waste collecting cavity between said bag sheets; and

a scraping actuator and a waste collecting apparatus which comprises two elongated scraper arms extended from said scraping actuator, wherein said scraper arms are operated and driven by said scraping actuator to separate said two bag sheets to opening said top opening of said bag body and collecting the waste into said waste collecting cavity through said top opening of said bag body, and that said two scraper arms are able to be operated and driven by said scraping actuator to move toward each other for enclosing said waste collecting cavity, wherein said two scraper arms are detachably fixed to said scraping actuator.

2. A waste collector for collecting waste, comprising:

a bag body, which is made of flexible material, having a top opening and a waste collecting cavity and comprising two bag sheets overlapped with each other to form said waste collecting cavity between said bag sheets; and

a scraping actuator and a waste collecting apparatus which comprises two elongated scraper arms extended from said scraping actuator, wherein said scraper arms are operated and driven by said scraping actuator to separate said two bag sheets to opening said top opening of said bag body and collecting the waste into said waste collecting cavity through said top opening of said bag body, and that said two scraper arms are able to be operated and driven by said scraping actuator to move toward each other for enclosing said waste collecting cavity, wherein each of said scraper arms comprises a plurality of scraping teeth formed along a longitudinal edge thereof for enhancing a scraping operation when said scraper arms are moved toward each other.

3. The waste collector, as recited in claim 2, wherein each of said arms comprises a blade fixed on the reverse side of said scraping teeth, wherein the side of said blade up to the peak of said scraping teeth of said scraper arms.

4. The waste collector, as recited in claim 3, wherein said scraping actuator of said waste collecting apparatus further comprises two actuator arms pivotally coupled with each other for driving said two scraper arms to scrape the waste respectively, wherein each of said scraper arms is coupled with said actuator arm respectively.

5. The waste collector, as recited in claim 4, wherein each of said scraper arms has a free end portion and each of said actuator arms has a detachable end detachably coupled with said free end portion of said scraper arm respectively, such that when said actuator arms are pivotally moved, said scraper arms are driven to move toward each other and away from each other.

6. The waste collector, as recited in claim 5, wherein each of said scraper arms has an opposed pivot end and said scraping actuator further comprises a spring-loaded pivot joint located at said opposed pivot end, wherein said two actuator arms are pivotally coupled with each other end-to-end through said spring-loaded pivot joint to form said scraping actuator with a V-shaped configuration.

7. The waste collector, as recited in claim 6, wherein each of said actuator arms has a hole formed at the detachable end of said actuator arms of said scraping actuator, wherein each of said scraper arms is coupled with said actuator arms through said hole respectively.

8. The waste collector, as recited in claim 7, wherein each of said scraper arms further comprises a bending part extended from the end of said scraper arm to couple with said actuator arms of said scraping actuator, wherein each of said bending part is angled relative to said scraper arm and the body of said waste collecting apparatus is above the extended line of said scraper arms when said scraper arms are scraped the waste on the ground.

9. The waste collector, as recited in claim 8, wherein each of said actuator arms has a hole formed at the detachable end of said actuator arms of said scraping actuator, wherein each of said bending part is coupled with said actuator arm through said hole respectively.

10. The waste collector, as recited in claim 9, wherein each of said scraping teeth has a curved shape and said scraping teeth at one of said scraper arm are misaligned with said scraping teeth at the other of said scraper arm, such that enhance the scraping operation when said scraper arms are moved toward each other.

11. The waste collector, as recited in claim 10, wherein said collecting apparatus further comprises two handles extended from the pivot ends of said actuator arms respectively and used for carrying.

12. A method for collecting waste by a waste collector, comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a bag body with a waste collecting cavity formed between two bag sheets and a top opening for collecting the waste, wherein said bag body further comprises a drawstring extended around said top opening and has two holders upwardly extended from the top of said two bag sheets respectively, wherein said bag body further has at least one sealing slit which is cut in U-shape on each of said bag sheets near said top opening of said bag body;

(b) flipping said bag body inside out from said top opening other to from a temporary waste cavity within said waste collecting cavity thereof;

(c) scraping the waste by moving two scraper arms which are acted on said two bag sheets respectively toward each other;

(d) flipping said bag body back for the waste in said waste collecting cavity from said temporary waste cavity; and

(e) tie-closing said waste collecting cavity by said drawstring closing, said holders closing and said sealing slit sealing after the waste is collected therein, wherein an upper edge of said sealing slit is able to be lifted up to make a through hole for said top edge of said bag sheet to be pulled through.

13. The method, as recited in claim 12, wherein in the step (c), said scraper arms are moved toward each other by a scraping actuator which is detachably coupled with said scraper arms, wherein said scraping actuator comprises two actuator arms pivotally coupled with each other and detachably coupled with free end portions of said scraper arms respectively, such that when said actuator arms are pivotally moved, said scraper arms are driven to move toward each other.

14. The method, as recited in claim 13, wherein each of said scraper arms further comprises a bending part extended from the end of said scraper arm to couple with said actuator arms of said scraping actuator, wherein each of said bending part is angled relative to said scraper arm and the body of said waste collecting apparatus is above the extended line of said scraper arms when said scraper arms are scraped the waste on the ground.