EP0555932A2 - Vorrichtung zum Aufnehmen von Material vom Boden - Google Patents

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EP0555932A2
EP0555932A2 EP93200392A EP93200392A EP0555932A2 EP 0555932 A2 EP0555932 A2 EP 0555932A2 EP 93200392 A EP93200392 A EP 93200392A EP 93200392 A EP93200392 A EP 93200392A EP 0555932 A2 EP0555932 A2 EP 0555932A2
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Martinus Cornelis Gosen
Andreas Petrus Bergmans
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01H—STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING OR PREVENTING FOG IN GENERAL CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS
    • E01H1/00—Removing undesirable matter from roads or like surfaces, with or without moistening of the surface
    • E01H1/12—Hand implements, e.g. litter pickers
    • E01H1/1206—Hand implements, e.g. litter pickers for picking up excrements
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01H—STREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING OR PREVENTING FOG IN GENERAL CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS
    • E01H1/00—Removing undesirable matter from roads or like surfaces, with or without moistening of the surface
    • E01H1/12—Hand implements, e.g. litter pickers
    • E01H2001/122—Details
    • E01H2001/1293—Walking cane or the like, i.e. implements allowing handling while in an upright position

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  • the invention relates to a device for picking up material lying on the ground, such as for example dog excrements, said device being provided with a carrying member and with scoop means, which are pivotable in such a manner that free ends of said scoop means are movable towards and away from each other.
  • Such a device is known from Dutch Patent Application No. 8,004,310, and provided with scoop means formed by blade-shaped parts secured to the ends of levers, which, from a position in which the free ends of said blade-shaped parts at least substantially abut against each other and the blade-shaped parts are at least substantially in line, can be brought into a position in which the blade-shaped means are spaced from each other by some distance, by pivoting of the levers with respect to each other.
  • a bag can be slipped over said blade-shaped means in such a manner, that the closed end of said bag can be located above the material to be picked up, whereupon the blade-shaped means are moved under the material in question by pivoting of the blade-shaped means into the former position, and said material is introduced into the bag.
  • the bag with the material contained therein is unprotected and in fact this device is only acceptable to the user when a facility in which the bag with the material contained therein can be deposited is present in the immediate vicinity of the place where the material has been picked up.
  • a further drawback of this known device is that both hands are needed to operate it. Furthermore the blade-shaped scoop means will have to comprise a comparatively great width, so as to ensure proper picking up of the material lying on the ground.
  • said scoop means are comprised of plate-shaped strips, which, at their ends remote from their free ends, are coupled to a common carrying member so as to be pivotable about pivots, said pivots at least substantially being located on a circumferential closed line, and that means are provided by which said plate-shaped strips are pivotable about said pivots, from a first position, in which strips arranged in side by side relationship overlap, forming some sort of cup-shaped means, whose largest diameter is located near the pivots, whilst the free ends bound a narrow opening in said cup-shaped means, into a second position, whilst moving the free ends of said plate-shaped strips in a direction away from each other.
  • the plate-shaped strips over which a bag of plastic material or the like may be slipped, can be brought into said second position for picking up material lying on the ground, whereby in said second position the device can be placed on the ground with the free ends of the plate-shaped strips, in such a manner, that said free ends surround the material on the ground to be picked up.
  • a particularly advantageous embodiment of the device which is easy to operate, is obtained when the carrying member supports an operating member which is movable with respect to the carrying member, said operating member being coupled to at least one plate-shaped strip by a transmission means, which converts a sliding movement of the operating member with respect to the carrying member into a pivoting motion of the plate-shaped strip.
  • a further aspect of the invention relates to a device for picking up material lying on the ground, provided with an elongated carrying member and with at least one gripping member being pivotable about a pivot.
  • Such a device is known from Dutch Patent Appliation No. 8,502,594. Also this device is in particular intended for picking up dog excrements and comprises a scoop means and a flap, which is pivotable with respect thereto, for moving the material onto said scoop means. This device also requires two-handed operation, which makes the device user-unfriendly. Furthermore the device is rather voluminous, which at the very most makes the device suitable for applications where after use the device can immediately be deposited in a container which is suitable for that purpose. Furthermore such a device comprising throwaway parts will be expensive to use.
  • said carrying member comprises two parts which can telescope with respect to each other, whereby the gripping member is coupled to the one part of the carrying member by means of the pivot, whilst a transmission means is provided between the other part of the carrying member and the pivotable gripping member, said transmission means converting a sliding movement of the two parts of the carrying member with respect to each other into a pivoting motion of the pivotable gripping member.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of a device according to the invention, illustrating the plate-shaped parts in the first position.
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention, illustrating the plate-shaped parts in the second position.
  • Figure 3 shows the device in the transport position.
  • Figure 4 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of a device according to the invention.
  • the device shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises an elongated carrying member 1, which comprises a tube 2, to whose upper end a disc 3 is secured.
  • a disc 4 is secured to the lower end of the tube 2, the diameter of said disc being considerably greater than that of the disc 3.
  • the interior of the tube 2 accommodates a tube 5, in such a manner that the tube 5 is movable in its longitudinal direction.
  • the distance along which the tube 5 can move inside the tube 2 is limited by a split pin 6, which is passed through holes provided in the tube 2 and through slotted holes provided in the tube 5, said split pin preventing rotation of the tubes 2 and 5 with respect to each other.
  • a knob 7 is secured to the upper end of the tube 5.
  • Hooks 10 are fixed to the periphery of the circular plate 8, said hooks engaging slotted holes 11, which are provided in the ends of elongated plate-shaped strips 12, all this in such a manner that the strips 12 can pivot about the pivots formed by the hooks 10 with respect to the plate 8.
  • the plate-shaped strips 12 overlap, whereby the plate-shaped strips form a cup-shaped means, as it were, which coaxially surrounds the central axis of the tube 5 and whose largest diameter is located near the pivots formed by the hooks 10.
  • each plate-shaped strip includes an angle with a radial plane through the central axis of the tube, when seen in the longitudinal direction of the central axis of the tube 5, said plane extending through the centre of the hook-shaped member 10, by means of which the respective plate-shaped strip 12 is coupled to the common carrying member 8 for the plate-shaped strips.
  • the free ends of the plate-shaped strips remote from the hook-shaped means 10 bound a passage 13 having a comparatively small diameter at the bottom end of the cup-shaped means formed by the plate-shaped strips, said passage giving access to the interior of the cup-shaped means.
  • Said wire-shaped member may be formed of a flexible, resilient plastic material or of spring steel or the like.
  • said wire-shaped members 14 are passed through slotted holes 15 provided in the plate 8, each being bent in a direction away from the central axis of the tube 5 and being secured to a plate-shaped strip 12.
  • the plate 8 will be pulled in the direction of the disc 4, from the first position shown in Figure 1 to the second position shown in Figure 2 when the tube 5 is moved in the direction according to the arrow A with respect to the tube 2.
  • the plate-shaped strips 12 connected to the ends of the wire-shaped members 14 will be stopped, as it were, as a result of which said plate-shaped strips are forced to pivot about the pivots formed by the respective hooks 10, in such a direction that the free ends of the plate-shaped strips move in a direction away from each other, towards the position shown in Figure 2. Because of the overlap of the plate-shaped strips the strips 12 that are not connected to the wire-shaped members 14 are caught by the strips 12 that are connected to the wire-shaped members 14, so that all plate-shaped strips will pivot from the position illustrated in Figure 1 to the position shown in Figure 2.
  • the closed end of a bag 16 for example a bag made of thin plastic material, can be provided in the interior of the space bounded by the plate-shaped strips 12, whilst the free end of the bag can be folded around the outer sides of the plate-shaped strips 12, possibly also folded over the upper side of the plate 8.
  • the plate-shaped strips can be returned to the position shown in Figure 1.
  • the plate-shaped strips will be brought into the position shown in Figure 2 again, after which the device can be placed on the ground with the free ends of the plate-shaped strips 12, in such a manner that the excrements or the like materials to be picked up are surrounded by the ends of the plate-shaped strips 12.
  • This free end of the bag can be folded and/or tied up and then likewise be pushed into the interior of the cup-shaped means formed by the plate-shaped strips 12, so that the filled bag is surrounded, fully protected, within said cup-shaped means formed by the plate-shaped strips in the position shown in Figure 1, whilst the material picked up is contained in the bag 16 in a practically airtight manner.
  • a shell-shaped member 17 is movable along the tube 2 in the longitudinal direction of the tube 2 by means of a hub 18 mounted on said shell-shaped member 17.
  • a further shell-shaped member 17' is pivotally coupled to said shell-shaped member 17 by means of a pivoted joint 17''.
  • a springing clamp 19 is provided in the interior of the shell-shaped member 17', which is fixed with one end to the shell-shaped member 17', in such a manner, that a number of spare bags 20 can be moved under the free ends of the springing clamp 19.
  • the cup-shaped space formed by the plate-shaped strips, with material possibly contained therein, such as dog excrements, is practically hermetically sealed, so that having to carry such material along for some time, for example during shopping or the like, does not constitute a problem, since in fact a double hermetical sealing is provided.
  • the shells 17 and 17' can be opened again and be moved upwards along the tube 2 beyond reach of the plate-shaped strips 12, after which the plate-shaped strips 12 can be pivoted into the position illustrated in Figure 2, so as to be able to drop the bag(s) containing the picked-up material from the device, without having to touch said bag(s) by hand.
  • the device can readily be operated with one hand by grabbing the the upper end of the rod 5 by the knob 7 and pushing down the disc 3 or pulling up the disc 3, as the case may be, so as to move the tube 2 with respect to the tube 5.
  • a spring can be suitably provided between the tubes 2 and 5, said spring attempting to maintain the tubes 2 and 5 in the position shown in Figure 1 with respect to each other.
  • the length of the carrying member 1 may be selected at will.
  • the carrying member may be comparatively long, so that the user of the device hardly needs to stoop.
  • the carrying member 1 When people for example wish to take the device along when for example taking longer walks with a dog, it may be desirable for the carrying member 1 to be relatively short, so as to save weight and facilitate handling, whereby in that case a provision may furthermore be made near the disc 3 for attaching the end of a dog leash or the like.
  • the plate 8 and the plate-shaped strips 12 may have holes provided therein so as to save weight. These holes are not essential, however.
  • Figure 4 shows a device for picking up material lying on the ground, which is particularly suited for picking up paper or the like.
  • This device is provided with a tube 21 having one flattened end 22.
  • a disc 23 is secured to the end remote from the flattened end 22 of the tube 21.
  • a tube 24 is movably provided inside the tube 23, said tube 24 at one free end having a knob 25.
  • a compression spring 26 is provided between the knob 25 and the disc 23, said spring attempting to move the tube 4 in the direction according to the arrow B with respect to the tube 21. This movement is limited by stops (not shown).
  • An elongated finger 28 forming a gripping member is pivotally connected near the end of the tube 21 by means of a pivot pin 27 extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the tube 21.
  • the end of a wire-shaped member 29 formed of a flexible, resilient material is secured to the finger 28.
  • Inside the tube 21 one end of this wire-shaped member 29 is connected to the end of the tube 24 located near the pivot pin 27, whilst the other end of said wire-shaped member 29 is bent, as shown in Figure 4, and passed outside through an opening 30 provided in the tubular means 21, near that location being connected to the end of the gripping means 28 located near the pivot pin 27.
  • rod transmissions having toggle levers or the like instead of the transmission means 14, 29 formed of a resilient, flexible material, which are used in the above-described embodiments, for converting the sliding movement of the tubes 2 and 5 or 21 and 24 with respect to each other into a pivoting motion of the plate-shaped parts 12 or the gripping member 28 respectively.

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NL9200263A NL9200263A (nl) 1992-02-14 1992-02-14 Inrichting voor het opnemen van op de grond liggend materiaal.
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US5624144A (en) * 1995-12-26 1997-04-29 Roche; Mortimer P. Excrement scoop
ES2136561A1 (es) * 1997-09-22 1999-11-16 Alvarez Maria Del Mar Anes Recogedor de excrementos y otros productos.
GB2452149A (en) * 2007-08-20 2009-02-25 John C Evans Device for sanitary removal of canine fecal matter.
JP2010142210A (ja) * 2008-12-18 2010-07-01 Setsuya Fujii ペットの排泄物収容処理具
US10273643B1 (en) * 2018-09-15 2019-04-30 Scott Edward Parazynski Waste collection and isolating device and method of collecting and isolating waste thereof

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US3823970A (en) * 1972-10-19 1974-07-16 W Brenner Pollution control device
EP0238074A1 (de) * 1986-03-18 1987-09-23 Egon Streit Aufsammelvorrichtung für Hundekot
DE8809875U1 (de) * 1988-07-29 1988-10-06 Hermanns, Rolf, Dipl.-Designer, 1000 Berlin, De

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US3823970A (en) * 1972-10-19 1974-07-16 W Brenner Pollution control device
EP0238074A1 (de) * 1986-03-18 1987-09-23 Egon Streit Aufsammelvorrichtung für Hundekot
DE8809875U1 (de) * 1988-07-29 1988-10-06 Hermanns, Rolf, Dipl.-Designer, 1000 Berlin, De

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5624144A (en) * 1995-12-26 1997-04-29 Roche; Mortimer P. Excrement scoop
ES2136561A1 (es) * 1997-09-22 1999-11-16 Alvarez Maria Del Mar Anes Recogedor de excrementos y otros productos.
GB2452149A (en) * 2007-08-20 2009-02-25 John C Evans Device for sanitary removal of canine fecal matter.
US7628431B2 (en) 2007-08-20 2009-12-08 Evans John C Device for sanitary removal of canine fecal matter and method therefor
GB2452149B (en) * 2007-08-20 2012-06-27 John C Evans Device for sanitary removal of canine fecal matter
JP2010142210A (ja) * 2008-12-18 2010-07-01 Setsuya Fujii ペットの排泄物収容処理具
US10273643B1 (en) * 2018-09-15 2019-04-30 Scott Edward Parazynski Waste collection and isolating device and method of collecting and isolating waste thereof

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