EP0584040A1 - Apparatus for collecting dog droppings in a plastic bag - Google Patents

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EP0584040A1
EP0584040A1 EP93810364A EP93810364A EP0584040A1 EP 0584040 A1 EP0584040 A1 EP 0584040A1 EP 93810364 A EP93810364 A EP 93810364A EP 93810364 A EP93810364 A EP 93810364A EP 0584040 A1 EP0584040 A1 EP 0584040A1
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    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01HSTREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING OR PREVENTING FOG IN GENERAL CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS
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  • This device is characterized in that it is designed as a pair of pliers with a jaw and two handles, the jaw also being formed, as it were, in the closed state of the pliers, so to speak completely against one another, stirrup-shaped jaws, which are compressed by pressing the two handles against the force of one Spring opens.
  • the first exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention consists essentially of six parts, namely two handles 2 and 3, which are connected to one another by two elastic connecting pieces 4 and 5 serving as springs.
  • the handles 2 and 3 can be made of wood, plastic or preferably metal coated with plastic, they can have a smooth surface or advantageously be slightly ribbed and have an outer surface on the two sides facing away from one another, which can be gripped easily.
  • the elastic connecting pieces 4 and 5 are formed in the illustrated embodiment by a round rod bent into a helical spring, which are shaped so that the two handles 2 and 3 can be pressed against the force of these springs 4/5 against each other, as can be seen from Figures 2, 3 and 4 results.
  • each handle 2 and 3 opposite the resilient connecting pieces 4/5 a bracket 6 or 7 is articulated. These two brackets 6 and 7 are articulated to one another at points 8 and 9.
  • Each of the two stirrups has the shape of a stirrup, the sections 6a and 7a of the two stirrups which are located on the side of the joints 8/9 facing away from the handles 2/3, serve as the mouth of the device 1 forming a pair of pliers. This mouth can therefore be opened by squeezing the handles 2/3 against the force of the springs 4/5.
  • Figures 8 and 9 show a second embodiment of the invention. It differs from the first exemplary embodiment described above in that the stirrup-shaped jaws, which are denoted here by 16 and 17, are not articulated on both handles 2/3, which are also elastically connected to one another by springs 4 and 5, but are firmly connected to them.
  • the brackets 16 and 17 themselves are also not connected to one another, but rather have a bent upper section, designated 16b and 17b, which has the consequence that they move 2/3 apart when the handles are pressed together. Since this second exemplary embodiment is used in exactly the same way as the first described, an additional description of the use is unnecessary.

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The apparatus is constructed in the form of a pair of pincers with a head (6a, 7a) and two handles (2 and 3). The head is formed by two stirrup-shaped claws which, in the closed state, so to speak, bear fully against one another and can be moved away from one another by squeezing the handles (2/3), so that the head opens. The apparatus is inserted with the head closed into a bag 10; then the head is opened, with the bag placed onto the dog droppings to be picked up and the head is then closed. After turning the bag inside out, the latter can be closed and the apparatus withdrawn. <IMAGE>

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Dort, wo die Hundehalter durch gesetzliche Vorschrift für die Beseitigung des Kots ihrer Hunde auf öffentlichem Grund und Boden verpflichtet sind, werden den Hundehaltern durch die Gemeinde üblicherweise Plastiksäcke zur Verfügung gestellt, um es so den Hundehaltern besser zu ermöglichen, die gesetzlichen Vorschriften für das Sauberhalten der Strassen und Wege zu erfüllen.Where dog owners are legally required to remove their dog's faeces on public land, the community usually provides dog owners with plastic bags to better enable dog owners to keep the legal regulations for keeping them clean the streets and paths to be fulfilled.

An sich ist es ohne weiteres mögliche, einen solchen Plastiksack als Handschuh zu benutzen, mit der so geschützten Hand den Hundekot zu ergreifen, und dann den Sack über den Kot zu stülpen wodurch der Hundekot im Sack versorgt wird, der dann durch Knüpfen oder anderswie verschlossen werden kann.In itself, it is easily possible to use such a plastic sack as a glove, to grasp the dog's excrement with the hand protected in this way, and then to put the sack over the excrement, thereby supplying the dog's excrement in the sack, which is then closed by knotting or otherwise can be.

Da es bekanntlich auch Hundehalter gibt, die, wie zum Beispiel ältere Leute, mit den Handbewegungen Schwierigkeiten haben, wurde ein Hilfsmittel geschaffen, um den Hundekot in den von den Gemeinden zur Verfügung gestellten Plastiksack einzubringen. Diese Vorrichtung ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie als Zange mit einem Maul und zwei Griffen ausgebildet ist, wobei das Maul auch zwei im geschlossenen Zustand der Zange sozusagen vollständig aneinander anliegende, steigbügelformige Backen gebildet wird, das sich durch Zusammendrücken der beiden Griffe entgegen der Kraft einer Feder öffnen lässt.As it is known that there are dog owners who, like older people, for example, have difficulty with hand movements, a tool has been created to put dog droppings in the plastic bag provided by the communities. This device is characterized in that it is designed as a pair of pliers with a jaw and two handles, the jaw also being formed, as it were, in the closed state of the pliers, so to speak completely against one another, stirrup-shaped jaws, which are compressed by pressing the two handles against the force of one Spring opens.

Nachfolgend werden anhand der beiliegenden Zeichnung zwei Ausführungsbeispiele der Erfindung beschrieben. In der Zeichnung zeigen

  • die Figuren 1 bis 7 ein erstes Ausführungsbeispiel in zwei verschiedenen Gebrauchs-Stellungen und
  • die Figuren 8 und 9 ein zweites Ausführungsbeispiel in zwei verschiedenen Stellungen.
Two exemplary embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawing. Show in the drawing
  • Figures 1 to 7 a first embodiment in two different positions and use
  • Figures 8 and 9, a second embodiment in two different positions.

Wie man aus den Figuren 1 bis 6 ersehen kann, besteht das mit 1 bezeichnete erste Ausführungsbeispiel der erfindungsgemässen Vorrichtung im wesentlichen aus sechs Teilen, nämlich zwei Griffen 2 und 3, die durch zwei elastische, als Feder dienende Verbindungsstücke 4 und 5 miteinander verbunden sind. Die Handgriffe 2 und 3 können aus Holz, Kunststoff oder aber aus vorzugsweise mit Kunststoff überzogenem Metall bestehen, sie können eine glatte Oberfläche haben oder vorteilhafterweise etwas gerippt sein und auf den beiden voneinander abgewandten Seiten eine Aussenfläche aufweisen, die sich bequem erfassen lässt. Die elastischen Verbindungsstücke 4 und 5 werden im zeichnerisch dargestellten Ausführungsbeispiel durch je einen zu einer Schraubenfeder gebogenen Rundstab gebildet, die so geformt sind, dass sich die beiden Handgriffe 2 und 3 entgegen der Kraft dieser Federn 4/5 gegeneinander drücken lassen, wie sich das aus den Figuren 2, 3 und 4 ergibt. An dem den federnden Verbindungsstücken 4/5 gegenüberliegenden Ende jedes Handgriffs 2 und 3 ist je ein Bügel 6 bzw. 7 angelenkt. Diese beiden Bügel 6 und 7 sind an den Stellen 8 und 9 gelenkig miteinander verbunden. Jeder der beiden Bügel hat, wie insbesondere aus der Figur 3 gut ersichtlich ist, die Form eines Steigbügels, wobei die Abschnitte 6a bzw. 7a der beiden Steigbügel, die sich auf der den Handgriffen 2/3 abgewandten Seite der Gelenke 8/9 befinden, als Maul der als Ganzes eine Zange bildenden Vorrichtung 1 dienen. Dieses Maul lässt sich also durch Zusammendrücken der Handgriffe 2/3 entgegen der Kraft der Federn 4/5 öffnen.As can be seen from FIGS. 1 to 6, the first exemplary embodiment of the device according to the invention, designated by 1, consists essentially of six parts, namely two handles 2 and 3, which are connected to one another by two elastic connecting pieces 4 and 5 serving as springs. The handles 2 and 3 can be made of wood, plastic or preferably metal coated with plastic, they can have a smooth surface or advantageously be slightly ribbed and have an outer surface on the two sides facing away from one another, which can be gripped easily. The elastic connecting pieces 4 and 5 are formed in the illustrated embodiment by a round rod bent into a helical spring, which are shaped so that the two handles 2 and 3 can be pressed against the force of these springs 4/5 against each other, as can be seen from Figures 2, 3 and 4 results. At the end of each handle 2 and 3 opposite the resilient connecting pieces 4/5, a bracket 6 or 7 is articulated. These two brackets 6 and 7 are articulated to one another at points 8 and 9. Each of the two stirrups, as can be seen particularly well from FIG. 3, has the shape of a stirrup, the sections 6a and 7a of the two stirrups which are located on the side of the joints 8/9 facing away from the handles 2/3, serve as the mouth of the device 1 forming a pair of pliers. This mouth can therefore be opened by squeezing the handles 2/3 against the force of the springs 4/5.

Wenn nun mit dieser als Zange ausgebildeten Vorrichtung auf dem Boden liegender Hundekot in einen Sack eingebracht werden soll, so führt man die Vorrichtung im geschlossenen Zustand, also so, wie sie in der Figur 1 dargestellt ist, in den Sack 10 ein, wie das aus der Figur 2 ersichtlich ist. Alsdann öffnet man durch Zusammendrücken der Handgriffe 2/3 das Maul der Zange und spreizt dadurch den Sack 10 auf, was in der Figur 3 dargestellt ist. Den so gespreizten Sack 10 hält man über den auf dem Boden 11 liegenden Hundekot 12 (siehe Figur 4) und fasst den Hundekot dadurch, dass man keinen Druck mehr auf die Handgriffe 2/3 der Zange ausübt, so dass das Zangenmaul 6a/7a durch die Kraft der Federn 4/5 geschlossen und der Hundekot festgehalten wird. Nun kann man den Sack 10 nach unten umstülpen, damit er die in der Figur 6 dargestellte Lage einnimmt. Alsdann kann man den nun den Hundekot enthaltenden Sack zuknüpfen oder mittels irgendeines Verschlussorgans verschliessen und ihn durch Druck auf die Handgriffe 2/3 aus der Zange 1 entnehmen.If dog droppings lying on the floor are placed in a sack using this device designed as pliers If the device is to be inserted into the sack 10 in the closed state, that is to say as shown in FIG. 1, as can be seen in FIG. Then, by squeezing the handles 2/3, the jaws of the pliers are opened, thereby spreading the sack 10, which is shown in FIG. 3. The sack 10 thus spread is held over the dog droppings 12 lying on the floor 11 (see FIG. 4) and the dog droppings are gripped by exerting no more pressure on the handles 2/3 of the pliers, so that the pliers mouth 6a / 7a passes through the force of the springs 4/5 is closed and the dog droppings are held. Now you can turn the sack 10 inside out so that it assumes the position shown in FIG. Then you can tie the sack that now contains the dog droppings or close it with some kind of locking device and remove it from the pliers 1 by pressing the handles 2/3.

Die Figuren 8 und 9 zeigen ein zweites Ausführungsbeispiel der Erfindung. Es unterscheidet sich vom vorstehend beschriebenen ersten Ausführungsbeispiel dadurch, dass die steigbügelförmigen Backen, die hier mit 16 und 17 bezeichnet sind, an beiden miteinander ebenfalls durch Federn 4 und 5 miteinander elastisch verbundenen Handgriffen 2/3 nicht angelenkt sondern mit ihnen fest verbunden sind. Die Bügel 16 und 17 selbst sind auch nicht miteinander verbunden, sondern weisen einen mit 16b bzw. 17b bezeichneten abgekröpften oberen Abschnitt auf, was zur Folge hat, dass sie sich beim Zusammendrücken der Handgriffe 2/3 voneinander wegbewegen. Da dieses zweite Ausführungsbeispiel genau gleich verwendet wird, wie das erst beschriebene, erübrigt sich eine zusätzliche Beschreibung der Verwendung.Figures 8 and 9 show a second embodiment of the invention. It differs from the first exemplary embodiment described above in that the stirrup-shaped jaws, which are denoted here by 16 and 17, are not articulated on both handles 2/3, which are also elastically connected to one another by springs 4 and 5, but are firmly connected to them. The brackets 16 and 17 themselves are also not connected to one another, but rather have a bent upper section, designated 16b and 17b, which has the consequence that they move 2/3 apart when the handles are pressed together. Since this second exemplary embodiment is used in exactly the same way as the first described, an additional description of the use is unnecessary.

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Vorrichtung zum Einbringen von Hundekot (12) in einen plastiksack (10), dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie als Zange mit einem Maul und zwei Griffen (2/3) ausgebildet ist, wobei das Maul durch zwei im geschlossenen Zustand der Zange sozusagen vollständig aneinander anliegende, steigbügelförmige Backen (6a/7a); (16a/17a) gebildet wird, das sich durch Zusammendrücken der beiden Griffe entgegen der Kraft einer Feder öffnen lässt.Device for introducing dog droppings (12) into a plastic sack (10), characterized in that it is designed as a pair of pliers with a mouth and two handles (2/3), the mouth being, as it were, completely adjacent to one another when the pliers are closed , stirrup-shaped jaws (6a / 7a); (16a / 17a) is formed, which can be opened by pressing the two handles against the force of a spring. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die beiden Backen miteinander gelenkig verbunden sind und dass an jedem-von ihnen an der Verbindungsstelle ein Hebelarm befestigt ist, dessen freies Ende an einem der beiden Handgriffe angelenkt ist, die ihrerseits an den dem Maul abgewandten Enden durch ein elastisches, als Feder dienendes Verbindungsstück miteinander verbunden sind.Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the two jaws are connected to one another in an articulated manner and in that a lever arm is attached to each of them at the connection point, the free end of which is articulated on one of the two handles, which in turn is at the ends facing away from the mouth are connected to one another by an elastic connecting piece serving as a spring. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jede der beiden Backen an einem Ende eine pinzettenartigen Feder derart angebracht ist, dass sich die Backen beim Zusammendrücken der pinzettenartigen Feder voneinander entfernen.Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that each of the two jaws is attached at one end to a tweezer-type spring such that the jaws move apart when the tweezer-type spring is compressed.
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GB2273454B (en) * 1992-12-15 1996-05-29 Socoplast A device for picking up litter such as animal excrement
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GB2302011A (en) * 1996-09-13 1997-01-08 Harjinder Singh Kalsi Animal excrement collector
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WO2017039441A1 (en) * 2015-08-28 2017-03-09 Van Der Plas Hendrik Arend Device for picking up a target object
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