CN113678744A - Open type cat litter basin capable of preventing cat litter from scattering - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention belongs to the technical field of pet tools, and particularly relates to an open type cat litter box capable of preventing cat litter from scattering, which comprises a cat litter box base body, wherein a cat litter storage disc is fixedly arranged inside the cat litter box base body, an arc-shaped notch is formed in the front end of the cat litter box base body, four rotating rollers are rotatably arranged on the inner wall of the cat litter storage disc inside the arc-shaped notch, a plurality of wheel discs are fixedly arranged on the surfaces of the four rotating rollers, and a plurality of arc-shaped notches are formed in the circumferential surface of each wheel disc. The arc notch that rim plate surface set up can with the laminating of cat palm ball to realize the clearance to between the clearance of cat palm ball through the arc notch, be used for preventing that the small amount cat litter absorbs water and softens the adhesion and be difficult for droing in palm ball surface, thereby effectual solution open cat litter basin is because kaifeng degree is higher, cause the cat to mix with a small amount of cat litter between sole ball clearance when the cat litter basin of business turn over, and bring out the cat litter basin with the cat litter, cause the environmental pollution problem easily.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of pet tools, and particularly relates to an open type cat litter basin capable of preventing cat litter from scattering.
Background
With the improvement of science and technology, cat litter boxes are made more and more unique, and the efficacy is more and more. For a cat raising family, the cat litter box is an indispensable necessity, and nowadays, the common cat litter box has an open type cat litter box, a closed type cat litter box and a cat litter box with an active cleaning effect, and the three common cat litter boxes have respective characteristics.
Open type litter box is the most common and most used, many cats like this kind of open type litter box relatively, and this kind of litter box cat is difficult for making itself yet, and open type litter box is absolute cheaper and is compared easily to be reckoned, however, current open type litter box is because the degree of unsealing is higher, causes the cat to mix with a small amount of cat litter between the ball of the sole ball when the cat advances in and exits the litter box, and takes the cat litter out of the litter box, easily causes the environmental pollution problem.
Disclosure of Invention
To solve the problems set forth in the background art described above. The invention provides an open type cat litter box capable of preventing cat litter from scattering, which solves the problems in the background art.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: the utility model provides a prevent open cat litter basin that cat litter scatters, includes cat litter basin base member, the inside fixed mounting of cat litter basin base member has cat litter storage disc, and the arc notch has been seted up to cat litter basin base member front end, and four live-rollers are installed in the inner wall rotation of the inboard cat litter storage disc of arc notch, and the equal fixed mounting in surface of four live-rollers has a plurality of rim plate, and a plurality of arc notch has been seted up to the periphery of rim plate, is equipped with the stock guide under four live-rollers.
Preferably, both ends respectively with the inside fixed connection of cat litter storage disc about the stock guide, the stock guide is kept away from arc notch one end and is installed the climbing board through the straight axle rotation, and a plurality of notches have been seted up on the surface of climbing board, and the one end that the stock guide was kept away from to the climbing board is connected with through the straight axle rotation and connects the installation bed frame.
Preferably, the height of the material guide plate in the vertical direction close to one end of the arc-shaped notch is higher than that of the material guide plate in the vertical direction far away from one end of the arc-shaped notch, and the four rotating rollers are linearly arranged at equal intervals in the horizontal direction.
Preferably, the lower surface of connecting the installation bed frame and being close to climbing board one end left and right sides is equipped with the spring respectively, the upper and lower both ends of spring respectively with the lower surface of connecting the installation bed frame and the interior bottom surface fixed connection of cat litter storage disc.
Preferably, the rotating roller and the plurality of wheel discs are arranged non-concentrically, and the plurality of wheel discs are spirally arranged at equal intervals around the axis of the rotating roller.
Preferably, the one end of connecting the installation bed frame that is close to cat litter storage disc is connected with the interior bottom surface of cat litter storage disc through the hinge, and the inner wall of connecting the installation bed frame is equipped with a plurality of elasticity rope.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the cat litter basin for preventing cat litter from scattering comprises a cat litter basin base body, a wheel disc and a climbing plate, wherein a cat can enter and exit the inside of a cat litter storage disc through an arc-shaped notch, when the cat moves from inside to outside, the cat is assisted to climb to the wheel disc through the climbing plate, the notch is formed in the surface of the climbing plate, the claw of a cat palm can be extended in the climbing process by means of the climbing plate, so that part of cat litter carried between the cat palm balls can fall off, when the cat passes through the arc-shaped notch, the wheel disc can rotate by being stepped by a foot palm pressing the wheel disc, the wheel discs on two sides of the wheel disc which are stepped at the same time can rotate upwards or downwards, the cat litter carried by the cat palm center can be separated out by utilizing the dislocation difference between the wheel discs, the arc-shaped notch arranged on the surface of the wheel disc can be attached to the cat palm balls, so that the clearance between the cat palm balls can be cleaned through the arc-shaped notch, the cat litter box is used for preventing that a small amount of cat litter absorbs water and softens the adhesion and is difficult for droing on the palm ball surface to effectual solution open cat litter basin is because kaifeng degree is higher, causes the cat to mix with a small amount of cat litter between sole ball clearance when advancing out of cat litter basin, and takes the cat litter out of cat litter basin, causes the environmental pollution problem easily.
2. This prevent cat litter basin that cat litter scatters, connect installation bed frame and elasticity rope through setting up, cat self gravity will push down when the cat gets into to the inside of cat litter storage disc and connect the installation bed frame and move down, simultaneously the cat is connected installation bed frame top gravity and is less than bottom spring force and connect the installation bed frame and upwards rotate when leaving, utilize and connect moving down of installation bed frame and shift up two kinds of states and realize utilizing the elasticity rope to store the inside cat litter propelling movement that is in cat litter of dish to connect installation bed frame one end region, the later stage of being convenient for is unified and is cleared up.
3. This prevent cat litter basin that cat litter scatters can collect the cat litter that the rim plate dropped through setting up the stock guide to the inside that the cat litter storage disc was returned to the cat litter that will drop the collection through the stock guide carries out reuse.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a three-dimensional structure according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of the wheel disc of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a front view of the wheel disc of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a side view of the wheel disc of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the structure at A in FIG. 3 according to the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram at B in fig. 2 according to the present invention.
Wherein, 1 cat litter basin base member, 2 cat litter storage disc, 3 live-rollers, 4 rim plates, 5 arc notches, 6 climbing boards, 7 notches, 8 connect installation bed frame, 9 elasticity ropes, 10 stock guides.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-7, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: an open type litter box for preventing litter from scattering comprises a litter box base body 1, a litter storage disc 2 is fixedly installed inside the litter box base body 1, the litter storage disc 2 is used for storing litter for use, an arc-shaped notch is formed in the front end of the litter box base body 1, the cat can conveniently pass through the inlet and outlet for use, and meanwhile, the cat can be prevented from passing through other lower parts, four rotating rollers 3 are rotatably installed on the inner wall of the litter storage disc 2 inside the arc-shaped notch, the four rotating rollers 3 are linearly arranged in a horizontal direction at equal intervals, a plurality of wheel discs 4 are fixedly installed on the surfaces of the four rotating rollers 3, the rotating rollers 3 and the wheel discs 4 are arranged in a non-concentric mode, the plurality of wheel discs 4 are spirally arranged in an axis equal interval mode through the rotating rollers 3, a plurality of arc-shaped notches 5 are formed in the circumferential surface of the wheel discs 4, the wheel discs 4 are pressed by soles, the wheel discs 4 can rotate, and the wheel discs 4 on two sides of the wheel discs 4 which are simultaneously pressed by the soles can rotate upwards or downwards, cat litter carried by cat litter cores is separated from cat litter cores by utilizing the dislocation difference between the wheel discs 4, the arc-shaped notches 5 arranged on the surfaces of the wheel discs 4 can be attached to the cat litter cores, so that clearance between the cat litter cores is realized through the arc-shaped notches 5, the cat litter is prevented from being adhered to the surfaces of the cat litter easily by softening and absorbing water, guide plates 10 are arranged under the four rotating rollers 3, the vertical direction of one end, close to the arc-shaped notches, of each guide plate 10 is higher than that of the other end, far away from the arc-shaped notches, the guide plates 10 can collect cat litter falling from the wheel discs 4, the falling and collected cat litter can be returned to the interior of the cat litter storage disc 2 for reuse through the guide plates 10, the left ends and the right ends of the guide plates 10 are respectively fixedly connected with the interior of the cat litter storage disc 2, the ends, far away from the arc-shaped notches, of the guide plates 10 are provided with climbing plates 6 through the straight shaft rotation, the surface of the climbing plate 6 is provided with a plurality of notches 7, one end of the climbing plate 6, which is far away from the guide plate 10, is connected with a connecting and installing base frame 8 through straight shaft rotation, the lower surfaces of the connecting and installing base frame 8, which are close to the left side and the right side of one end of the climbing plate 6, are respectively provided with a spring, the upper end and the lower end of the spring are respectively fixedly connected with the lower surface of the connecting and installing base frame 8 and the inner bottom surface of the cat litter storage disc 2, one end of the connecting and installing base frame 8, which is close to the cat litter storage disc 2, is connected with the inner bottom surface of the cat litter storage disc 2 through a hinge, the inner wall of the connecting and installing base frame 8 is provided with a plurality of elastic ropes 9, the connecting and installing base frame 8 and the elastic ropes 9 are connected, when a cat enters the inside the cat litter storage disc 2, the self gravity of the connecting and installing base frame 8 can press down to connect the installing base frame 8 to move down, and the cat when the cat leaves, the gravity of the top of the installing base frame 8 is smaller than the elastic connecting and the installing base frame 8 to rotate upwards, utilize moving down of connecting installation bed frame 8 and two kinds of states of shifting up to realize utilizing elastic rope 9 to install 2 inside cat litter inside cat excrement propelling movement to connecting 8 one end regions of bed frame, the later stage of being convenient for is unified and is cleared up.
The working principle and the using process of the invention are as follows: when the cat litter storage disc is used, firstly, a cat enters and exits the inside of the cat litter storage disc 2 through the arc-shaped notch, when the cat moves from inside to outside, the climbing plate 6 assists the cat to climb to the wheel disc 4, because the notch 7 is formed in the surface of the climbing plate 6, the claw of the cat palm can be extended in the climbing process by the climbing plate 6, so that part of cat litter carried between the cat palm balls can fall off, when the cat passes through the arc-shaped notch, the wheel disc 4 can be rotated by the palm of the foot stepping on the wheel disc 4, meanwhile, the wheel discs 4 on two sides of the wheel disc 4 which is pressed can rotate upwards or downwards, the cat litter carried by the cat palm can be separated out of the cat palm by utilizing the dislocation between the wheel discs 4, the arc-shaped notch 5 arranged on the surface of the wheel disc 4 can be attached to the cat palm balls, so that the clearance between the cat palm balls can be cleaned through the arc-shaped notch 5, is used for preventing a small amount of cat litter from absorbing water, softening and adhering to the surface of a palm ball and being difficult to fall off, thereby effectively solving the problem that environmental pollution is easily caused by the fact that a small amount of cat litter is mixed in the gaps between the palm balls of the feet when a cat enters and exits the open type cat litter box due to high unsealing degree, the open type cat litter box is provided with a connecting and mounting base frame 8 and an elastic rope 9, the gravity of the cat is downwards pressed and connected with the mounting base frame 8 to move downwards when the cat enters the cat litter storage disc 2, the gravity of the top of the connecting and mounting base frame 8 is smaller than the gravity of a spring at the bottom to upwards rotate the connecting and mounting base frame 8 when the cat leaves, and the cat litter excrement in the cat litter storage disc 2 is pushed to the area at one end of the connecting and mounting base frame 8 by the elastic rope 9 by utilizing the two states of downwards moving and upwards moving of the connecting and mounting base frame 8, thereby being convenient for later-stage unified cleaning, all the electric equipment in the device are powered by an external power supply.
Finally, it should be noted that: although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes may be made in the embodiments and/or equivalents thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a prevent open cat litter basin that cat litter scatters, includes cat litter basin base member (1), its characterized in that: the cat litter storage disc (2) is fixedly mounted inside the cat litter basin base body (1), an arc-shaped notch is formed in the front end of the cat litter basin base body (1), four rotating rollers (3) are rotatably mounted on the inner wall of the cat litter storage disc (2) on the inner side of the arc-shaped notch, a plurality of wheel discs (4) are fixedly mounted on the surfaces of the four rotating rollers (3), a plurality of arc-shaped notches (5) are formed in the circumferential surface of each wheel disc (4), and a guide plate (10) is arranged under each four rotating roller (3);
both ends respectively with the inside fixed connection of cat litter storage disc (2) about stock guide (10), arc notch one end is kept away from in stock guide (10) and the climbing board (6) is installed through the straight axle rotation, and a plurality of notch (7) have been seted up on the surface of climbing board (6), and the one end that stock guide (10) were kept away from in climbing board (6) is connected with through the straight axle rotation and connects installation bed frame (8).
2. The open litter box of claim 1, wherein: the vertical direction height of one end, close to the arc-shaped notch, of the material guide plate (10) is higher than that of one end, far away from the arc-shaped notch, of the material guide plate, and the four rotating rollers (3) are linearly arranged at equal intervals in the horizontal direction.
3. The open litter box of claim 1, wherein: the lower surface of the connection and installation base frame (8) close to the left side and the right side of one end of the climbing plate (6) is respectively provided with a spring, and the upper end and the lower end of the spring are respectively fixedly connected with the lower surface of the connection and installation base frame (8) and the inner bottom surface of the cat litter storage disc (2).
4. The open litter box of claim 1, wherein: the rotating roller (3) and the plurality of wheel discs (4) are arranged non-concentrically, and the plurality of wheel discs (4) are spirally arranged at equal intervals in the axis of the rotating roller (3).
5. The open litter box of claim 1, wherein: one end, close to the cat litter storage disc (2), of the connecting and installing base frame (8) is connected with the inner bottom surface of the cat litter storage disc (2) through a hinge, and a plurality of elastic ropes (9) are arranged on the inner wall of the connecting and installing base frame (8).
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