ES2258405A1 - Animal waste picker usable as walking stick, has spring-loaded axial track provided within tube and connected to expandable steel thimble for waste plastic bag that juts out through perforation on tube - Google Patents

Abstract

A tube has a handle at the upper end and a rubber stop at the lower end for contact with the ground surface. Inside the tube is an axial track connected with an inner spring and a steel thimble. With the track slid down in the tube, the thimble project out through a perforation on the tube and expand in size to hold a plastic bag for animal waste collection.

Description

Animal excrement collecting device domestic, adapted as a walking stick.

Object of the invention

The present invention has as its object a collection device for excrement of domestic animals, such as Dogs, adapted as a walking stick.

Background

Currently, most animal owners domestic that need to be walked through streets and urban areas, such as dogs, collect the droppings that can generate these animals.

The problem of collection is that owners must descend to ground level to collect faeces. This action is not always done properly, causing discomfort in various areas of the back.

This problem is aggravated when the owners suffer lumbar injuries, making collection more difficult. People with back problems and elderly people are the most suffer in the action of excrement collection, these being latest the group that has the most pets for Improve your standard of living.

There is a wide variety of devices on the market intended for the action performed by the invention, but lack practicality, given its volume, its size or its complexity.

Description of the invention

The present invention has been designed for a dual utility: first, help to collect the remote droppings, reducing the discomfort of bending over to such an effect, and, secondly, offer a resting point during the walk, given its cane design.

The invention consists of a walking stick that it has a slide to drive the mechanism of the invention and in its lower part some perforations where a cable loop comes out steely with a certain stiffness.

Internally, the mechanism of the invention has been made by the steely loop that comes out of one of the perforations and re-enters the remaining perforation, and a spring that joins the external slide with the loop.

The length of the loop plus the spring is less than the total length from the upper end of the cane to the perforations thereof, thus causing a tension in the spring when the slide is at the end of its upper travel.

The spring also acts as a retainer in the splitting of the main tube of the cane, establishing a point of torsion when the two parts of the tube are separated.

All visible modifications have been located on the back side of the invention to prioritize the walking stick look and minimize the vision of the invention as a collector of excrement.

The user must complete the ingenuity with bags plastic as receptacles for excrement.

The user will carry the invention as a staff of walk, helping if necessary. When the animal of company wishes to defecate, the user will unpin the slide and, thanks to the reaction of the dock, which will initially be in tension, the slide will slide axially through the tube. At the same time, by the reaction of the spring, it will push the inner steely loop, and this one will stop being in tension and will go through the perforations, increasing its outer length and describing a circumference.

Then the user will adapt the plastic bag to the steely loop and the hook, the latter being the one that will withstand the Weight tension that is incorporated into the plastic bag. Mouth of the bag will remain open following the guide offered by the tie.

Then the ingenuity will be placed in such a way that the loop covers the area where the animal's excrement can fall, the bag being the final receptacle of the excrement.

When the animal finishes it will proceed to collect the sliding to its anchor position. This action will cause loop collection inside the tube, decreasing its external length and drowning the bag. If the weight of excrement were high, the anchoring the bag to the hook will not allow it to slip from the loop and fall

Finally, the user can take the bag for its exterior with the excrement inside, simply and clean, to deposit it in any bin.

If the user wishes to fold the device to facilitate its transport will proceed to disassemble the apparatus by dividing the main tube and folding the apparatus by this point. The internal spring will hold a stop so that the device does not separate, and will work in turn hinge. In turn, if the device is folded, the user can recompose the invention by assembling by the division of the main tube, aided by the action of spring recovery.

Brief description of the drawings

For the best understanding of how much is left described herein, some drawings are attached in the that, by way of example only, the invention is represented and detailed cuts of this one.

In figure 1 we can see a view back of the instrument.

In figure 2 we can see an enlargement in detail of the upper area of the device.

In figure 3 we can see an enlargement in detail of the inside of the tube.

In figure 4 we can see an enlargement in detail of the lower area of the device.

Description of an embodiment of the invention

The invention is constituted as follows way: the tube (1) is preferably aluminum, where describes a cut (1.1) that runs half the tube (1) as a guide for the slide. In the upper part a handle has been added (2) which can be made of plastic, where an anchor is located (4) made of steel to take the slide (3), preferably brass or steel In turn, the tube (1) has a division in the part intermediate (1.2) to help fold the invention.

This slide (3) slides axially along the tube (1) and is attached to the internal spring (9) which, in turn, is attached to the loop (6). When the guide is in its position of anchor, being the length of the loop (6) plus that of the internal spring (9) shorter than the length of the tube (1), the internal spring (9) is in tension.

At the bottom, the tube (1) is joined by thread to the auxiliary tube (5). This auxiliary tube (5) must be thickness greater than that of the tube (1), due to the tension that will have to endure. It contains two perforations (5.1) where the steely loop (6) goes outside and re-enters. This tie Steel (6) will be internally attached to the internal spring (9). He Steel loop material (6) is a flexible steel wire, but with certain stiffness, to create a large diameter arc when extracted outside the tube (1).

Also found in this auxiliary tube (5) is a brass hook (7) that will serve as a grip for the bags plastic to be used as a container for excrement.

The auxiliary tube (5) ends with a plug (8) of rubber, to resist impacts against the ground.

Claims (3)

1. Domestic animal excrement collecting device, adapted as a walking stick, characterized by an internal steel cable (6) and a spring (9) that, together with an external slide (3), offer a loop (6) that describes a circumference for use as a guide and a hook (7) as a point of attachment for the incorporation of a plastic bag as a receptacle for excrement. 2. Domestic animal excrement collection device, adapted as a walking stick, according to claim 1, characterized in that it is constituted by a cylindrical tube (1) in whose upper part a handle (2) has been added and in its lower part a rubber block (8) for use as an aid in the action of walking or walking. 3. Domestic animal excrement collecting device, adapted as a walking stick, according to claim 1, characterized by having a division in the intermediate part of the main cylindrical tube (1.2) to be able to fold the apparatus and thus facilitate its transport.