CN213848130U - Automatic cat lavatory cat litter recovery unit - Google Patents
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The application discloses automatic cat lavatory cat litter recovery unit. The automatic cat toilet litter recovery device includes a base, a litter box, a track, rake teeth, and a drive mechanism. The base is formed with a working channel defining a first region and a second region along its length. The sand basin is arranged in the first area, and the one end of the sand basin close to the garbage box is formed with a recovery structure which comprises a plurality of sieve meshes. In the second region was located to the rubbish box, rubbish box formed cat litter along the length direction of work groove and retrieved region and pollutant collection region, retrieves the structure and retrieves the region by cat litter and extends to pollutant collection region, and the sieve mesh intercommunication cat litter is retrieved regionally. The application provides a technical scheme can retrieve clean cat litter to practice thrift the cat raising cost.
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Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of pet feeding, particularly, relates to an automatic cat lavatory cat litter recovery unit.
Background
With the popularization of animal cats as household pets, more and more people begin to raise pet cats, and the excretion problem of pet cats is always troubling the raisers in the process of raising pet cats. Although pet cats may be discharged at fixed points in a cat toilet without training as compared to pet dogs. However, in the existing cat toilet, when the cat litter ball is treated, clean cat litter can be discarded along with the cat litter ball, which causes waste and increases the cost.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The application provides an automatic cat lavatory cat litter recovery unit, it can retrieve clean cat litter to practice thrift the cost.
The application provides an automatic cat lavatory cat litter recovery unit. The automatic cat toilet litter recovery device includes a base, a litter box, a track, rake teeth, and a drive mechanism. The base is formed with a working channel defining a first region and a second region along its length. The sand basin is arranged in the first area, and the one end of the sand basin close to the garbage box is formed with a recovery structure which comprises a plurality of sieve meshes. In the second region was located to the rubbish box, rubbish box formed cat litter along the length direction of work groove and retrieved region and pollutant collection region, retrieves the structure and retrieves the region by cat litter and extends to pollutant collection region, and the sieve mesh intercommunication cat litter is retrieved regionally. The track is arranged on the base and extends along the direction from the first area to the second area. The driving mechanism is movably matched with the track and is connected with the rake teeth, and the driving mechanism is configured to drive the rake teeth to move on the track and is used for sweeping pollutants from the sand basin to a pollutant collecting area.
Above-mentioned scheme provides an automatic cat lavatory cat litter recovery unit that can retrieve clean cat litter automatically. When actuating mechanism during operation, can drive the rake teeth motion, the rake teeth can promote cat sand group and clean cat litter to rubbish box by the sand basin, cleans the in-process that promotes, and clean cat litter can fall down in the sieve mesh of retrieving the structure to retrieve the pollutant collection area in the rubbish box, thereby make clean cat litter can reuse.
Optionally, in a possible implementation manner, the recycling structure comprises a transition plate extending from one end of the sand basin close to the garbage box, and a plurality of sieve holes are formed on the surface of the transition plate;
the inside of rubbish box is formed with the division board, and the division board is for cat litter recovery area and pollutant collection area with the inside partition of rubbish box.
Optionally, in a possible implementation manner, the transition plate includes a flat plate and an arc panel, and the flat plate is connected with one end of the sand basin close to the garbage box through the arc panel.
Optionally, in a possible implementation manner, the lower surface of the transition plate is formed with an abutting plate, the abutting plate abuts against the partition plate, two side walls of the garbage box are formed with grooves, and the abutting plate is embedded in the grooves.
Alternatively, in one possible implementation, the plurality of holes are arranged in two rows along the length of the work tank to form a two row hole array.
Alternatively, in one possible implementation, one of the rows of screen openings is located on a flat plate and the other row of screen openings is located on an arc plate.
Optionally, in one possible implementation, the aperture of each mesh corresponds to the diameter of a single litter.
Optionally, in a possible implementation manner, the automatic cat litter recycling device further includes a garbage cover plate and a shifting side wing, the garbage cover plate can rotate relative to the garbage box, and the garbage cover plate has a state of covering the recycling structure;
the stirring side wing is connected with the garbage cover plate and extends towards the direction of the sand basin, when the rake teeth are pressed against the stirring side wing under the driving of the driving mechanism, the stirring side wing drives the garbage cover plate to rotate relative to the garbage box along with the pushing of the rake teeth, so that the garbage cover plate is far away from the recovery structure.
Optionally, in a possible implementation manner, one end of the garbage cover plate is rotatably connected with one end of the sand basin, and the other end of the garbage cover plate is formed with a plurality of cleaning columns, wherein the cleaning columns correspond to the sieve holes one to one.
Optionally, in a possible implementation manner, two sides of one end of the garbage cover plate are provided with hinge shafts, one end of the sand basin is formed with a hinge groove, and the hinge shafts are rotatably embedded in the hinge groove.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present application and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained from the drawings without inventive effort.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the novel smart cat toilet of the present embodiment;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the novel smart cat toilet of the present embodiment;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the working panel of the present embodiment;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the interior of the working panel in this embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the drive mechanism and track of this embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the track of the present embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the sand basin of this embodiment;
FIG. 8 is an enlarged view at VIII in FIG. 2;
fig. 9 is a perspective view of the garbage cover plate of the present embodiment.
Icon: 10-novel smart cat toilet; 20-a base; 21-a handle; 201-a first area; 202-a second area; 30-a sand basin; 31-a recovery structure; 32-mesh; 33-an abutment plate; 40-a garbage box; 41-a separation plate; 50-track; 51-a guide wheel cavity; 52-rack configuration; 53-opening; 60-a working panel; 60 a-front cover; 60 b-rear cover; 61-a drive mechanism; 62-an electric control main board; 63-a lithium battery; 64-an infrared probe; 610-a motor; 611-reduction gear structure; 612-a drive shaft; 613-guide wheel; 614-drive gear; 615-a roller assembly; 6150-roller support; 6151-roller; 70-rake teeth; 90-a garbage cover plate; 91-poking the side wing; 92-cleaning the column; 93-a hinge axis; 94-groove.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. The components of the embodiments of the present application, generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, can be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.
Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, presented in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed application, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the application. 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 application.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.
In the description of the embodiments of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like, refer to the orientation or positional relationship as shown in the drawings, or as conventionally placed in use of the product of the application, or as conventionally understood by those skilled in the art, and are used merely for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and therefore should not be considered as limiting the present application.
In the description of the embodiments of the present application, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.
The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The present embodiment provides a novel smart cat toilet 10.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a novel smart cat toilet 10 in this embodiment, and fig. 2 is a sectional view of the novel smart cat toilet 10 in this embodiment.
The new smart cat litter box 10 includes a base 20, a litter box 30, a litter box 40, a track 50, a work panel 60, rake tines 70, and a drive mechanism 61.
The base 20 is formed with a working channel which defines a first region 201 and a second region 202 along its length.
The basin 30 is disposed in the first region 201 and the waste bin 40 is disposed in the second region 202, the waste bin 40 being in communication with the basin 30. Wherein, when using novel intelligent cat lavatory 10, need pack the cat litter in litter box 30, the cat can excrete in litter box 30, and the excrement can adsorb the cat litter for excrement and cat litter are the conglobation, can be called cat litter group.
The rail 50 is disposed on the base 20, and the rail 50 extends along a direction from the first area 201 to the second area 202.
The drive mechanism 61 is provided on the work panel 60.
The driving mechanism 61 is movably engaged with the rail 50, and the driving mechanism 61 is configured to move the working panel 60 on the rail 50.
The rabble blade 70 is disposed on the surface of the working panel 60 and located in the working groove, wherein the rabble blade 70 is driven by the working panel 60 to move along the direction from the first area 201 to the second area 202, so as to sweep the pollutants from the sand basin 30 to the garbage box 40.
It should be noted that, after the rake teeth 70 complete the cleaning operation (moving along the direction from the first area 201 to the second area 202) under the driving of the working panel 60, the rake teeth are also reset by the working panel 60.
In order to conveniently move the novel intelligent cat toilet 10, handles 21 can be arranged on two outer side walls of the base 20, which are far away from each other.
Referring to fig. 3 and fig. 4, fig. 3 is a schematic perspective view of the working panel 60 in the present embodiment, and fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of the interior of the working panel 60 in the present embodiment.
The working panel 60 includes an electronic control main board 62 and a lithium battery 63.
The working panel 60 includes a front cover 60a and a rear cover 60b, the front cover 60a and the rear cover 60b are connected to each other to jointly enclose a containing chamber, the electronic control main board 62 and the lithium battery 63 are both disposed in the containing chamber, a part of the driving mechanism 61 is located in the containing chamber, and an execution end of the driving mechanism 61 penetrates out of the containing chamber to be matched with the rail 50.
The electric control main board 62 is connected with the lithium battery 63 and the driving mechanism 61, and controls the driving mechanism 61 to work. The lithium battery 63 supplies power to the electronic control main board 62 and the driving mechanism 61.
Wherein the rake teeth 70 are provided on the front surface of the front cover 60 a.
The electric control main board 62 and the lithium battery 63 are fixed to the back surface of the front cover 60a, and the rear cover 60b is connected to the back surface of the front cover 60a by bolts.
Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of the driving mechanism 61 and the rail 50.
The driving mechanism 61 includes a motor 610, a reduction gear structure 611, a transmission shaft 612, and a guide wheel 613.
The motor 610 is fixed to the front cover 60a, and an output shaft of the motor 610 is connected to a transmission shaft 612 through a reduction gear mechanism. The ends of the transmission shaft 612 penetrate the accommodating chamber and are respectively connected with guide wheels 613, and the guide wheels 613 are movably matched with the track 50.
The reduction gear structure 611 includes a driving gear and a driven gear, the driving gear is disposed on an output shaft of the motor 610, the driven gear is fixed on the output shaft, and the driving gear is engaged with the driven gear.
The number of the rails 50 is two, and the two rails 50 are respectively disposed on two sides of the base 20. Both ends of the transmission shaft 612 penetrate through the accommodating cavity, and both ends of the transmission shaft 612 are respectively connected with guide wheels 613, and each guide wheel 613 corresponds to one track 50.
Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a perspective view of the track 50.
The track 50 comprises a track body and a rack structure 52 arranged on the track body;
the rail body defines a guide wheel cavity 51, a guide wheel 613 is rollably embedded in the guide wheel cavity 51, and a rack structure 52 is located at the upper edge of the rail body. A drive gear 614 is connected to the end of the drive shaft 612, the drive gear 614 engaging the rack structure 52.
To ensure the driving mechanism 61 operates stably, a roller assembly 615 is connected to the end of the driving shaft 612.
The roller assembly 615 includes a roller bracket 6150 and a roller 6151.
The roller bracket 6150 is connected to the transmission shaft 612, and the roller bracket 6150 is formed with a rotation shaft parallel to the transmission shaft 612. The roller 6151 is rotatably disposed on the rotating shaft, and the roller 6151 is rotatably embedded in the guide wheel cavity 51.
Referring to fig. 6, it can be seen that a notch 53 is formed at one end of the rail 50 to facilitate the driving mechanism 61 to be detached from the rail 50 through the notch 53.
Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of the sand basin 30 in the present embodiment, and fig. 8 is an enlarged view of a point viii in fig. 2 in combination with fig. 2 and 8.
The sand basin 30 is formed with a recovery structure 31 at an end thereof adjacent to the garbage box 40, and the recovery structure 31 includes a plurality of sieve holes 32. The litter box 40 forms a litter collection area and a contaminant collection area along the length of the work slot.
Wherein, sieve mesh 32 is used for sifting out clean cat litter, through sieve mesh 32 for clean cat litter falls to cat litter recovery area, so that reuse.
Wherein the rake teeth 70 sweep the contaminants from the sand basin 30 to a contaminant collection area under the drive of the work panel 60.
In this embodiment, the recycling structure 31 includes a transition plate extending from one end of the sand basin 30 close to the garbage box 40, and a plurality of sieve holes 32 are formed on the surface of the transition plate.
The interior of the waste box 40 is formed with a partition plate 41 which partitions the interior of the waste box 40 into a litter collection area and a contaminant collection area.
The lower surface of the transition plate is provided with a contact plate 33, the contact plate 33 contacts with the isolation plate 41, two side walls of the garbage box 40 are provided with grooves, and the contact plate 33 is embedded in the grooves.
Wherein the plurality of holes 32 are arranged in two rows along the length of the work tank to form two rows of holes 32 arrays.
The transition plate comprises a plane plate and an arc plate, and the plane plate is connected with one end of the sand basin 30 close to the garbage box 40 through the arc plate.
One of the rows of apertures 32 is located on a flat surface and the other row of apertures 32 is located on a curved surface.
The aperture of each mesh 32 corresponds to the diameter of a single litter.
Please refer to fig. 7 and fig. 2.
Novel intelligence cat lavatory 10 still includes rubbish apron 90 and stirs flank 91, and rubbish apron 90 rotationally locates rubbish box 40, and rubbish apron 90 has the lid and fits the state of retrieving structure 31.
The shifting flank 91 is connected to the garbage cover plate 90 and extends toward the direction of the sand basin 30, and when the rake teeth 70 are driven by the working panel 60 to abut against the shifting flank 91, the shifting flank 91 drives the garbage cover plate 90 to rotate relative to the garbage box 40 along with the pushing of the rake teeth 70, so that the garbage cover plate 90 is far away from the recycling structure 31.
One end of the garbage cover plate 90 is rotatably connected with one end of the garbage box 40, which is far away from the sand basin 30, the other end of the garbage cover plate 90 is formed with a plurality of cleaning columns 92, and the cleaning columns 92 correspond to the sieve holes 32 one to one, so that when the garbage cover plate 90 rotates, the cleaning columns 92 act on the sieve holes 32 to eject cat litter blocked in the sieve holes 32.
It should be noted that in other embodiments, the cleaning post 92 may be eliminated.
Wherein, the two sides of one end of the garbage cover plate 90 are provided with hinge shafts 93, one end of the sand basin 30 is formed with a hinge groove, and the hinge shafts 93 are rotatably embedded in the hinge groove.
In order to jack up the shifting side wings 91 by the rake teeth 70, the number of the shifting side wings 91 is two, the two shifting side wings 91 are respectively arranged at two sides of the garbage cover plate 90, and the end surfaces of the shifting side wings 91 close to the sand basin 30 are arc-shaped.
Wherein, the back of the garbage cover plate 90 is formed with a plurality of grooves 94, as shown in fig. 9, the back of the garbage cover plate 90 is formed with three rhombic grooves 94, and an activated carbon bag can be stuck in the grooves 94 to achieve the effects of deodorizing and purifying air.
By way of example, the following describes one possible way of operating the novel smart cat litter box 10 of the present embodiment: the lithium battery 63 supplies power to the electronic control device in the work panel 60. Work panel 60 moves forward along with rake teeth 70, and rake teeth 70 drives the sufficient cat litter of agglomerating and continues to move forward together, and rake teeth 70 backs up rubbish apron 90, and uncontaminated cat litter leaks into the cat litter recovery area through sieve mesh 32 in advance, and the cat is just agglomerated and is dropped in the pollutant collection area, and afterwards, work panel 60 resets together with rake teeth 70.
When actuating mechanism 61 during operation, can drive rake teeth 70 motion, rake teeth 70 can promote cat litter group and clean cat litter to rubbish box 40 by litter basin 30, cleans the in-process that promotes, and clean cat litter can fall in retrieving the sieve mesh 32 of structure 31 to retrieve the pollutant collection area in rubbish box 40, thereby make clean cat litter can reuse.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.
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1. An automatic cat toilet litter recycling apparatus, comprising:
a base formed with a working channel defining a first region and a second region along its length;
a sand basin disposed in the first region;
the garbage box is arranged in the second area, a recovery structure is formed at one end, close to the garbage box, of the litter box, the recovery structure comprises a plurality of sieve holes, the garbage box forms a litter recovery area and a pollutant collection area along the length direction of the working groove, the recovery structure extends from the litter recovery area to the pollutant collection area, and the sieve holes are communicated with the litter recovery area;
the rail is arranged on the base and extends along the direction from the first area to the second area;
rake teeth; and
a drive mechanism movably engaged with the track, the drive mechanism coupled to the tines, the drive mechanism configured to move the tines on the track for sweeping contaminants from the sand basin to a contaminant collection area.
2. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 1 wherein,
the recycling structure comprises a transition plate extending from one end, close to the garbage box, of the sand basin to the garbage box, and a plurality of sieve holes are formed in the surface of the transition plate;
the inside of rubbish box is formed with the division board, the division board will the inside partition of rubbish box be cat litter recovery area with pollutant collection area.
3. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 2 wherein,
the transition plate comprises a plane plate and an arc-shaped plate, and the plane plate is connected with one end, close to the garbage box, of the sand basin through the arc-shaped plate.
4. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 3 wherein,
the lower surface of the transition plate is provided with a butt joint plate which is butted against the isolation plate, two side walls of the garbage box are provided with grooves, and the butt joint plate is embedded in the grooves.
5. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 4 wherein,
the plurality of sieve holes are arranged in two rows along the length direction of the working groove to form two rows of sieve hole arrays.
6. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 5 wherein,
one row of the sieve pore arrays is positioned on the plane plate, and the other row of the sieve pore arrays is positioned on the arc-shaped plate.
7. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 6 wherein,
the aperture of each sieve pore corresponds to the diameter of a single cat litter.
8. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 1 wherein,
the automatic cat toilet litter recycling device further comprises a garbage cover plate and a shifting side wing, wherein the garbage cover plate can rotate relative to the garbage box, and the garbage cover plate is in a state of covering the recycling structure;
the stirring side wing is connected with the garbage cover plate and extends towards the direction of the sand basin.
9. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 8 wherein,
one end of the garbage cover plate is rotatably connected with one end of the sand basin, a plurality of cleaning columns are formed at the other end of the garbage cover plate, and the cleaning columns correspond to the sieve holes one to one.
10. The automatic cat litter recycling apparatus of claim 9 wherein,
the two sides of one end of the garbage cover plate are provided with hinged shafts, one end of the sand basin is provided with a hinged groove, and the hinged shafts are rotatably embedded in the hinged groove.
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