JP4731632B2 - Pet toilet - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a pet toilet for absorbing urine and the like excreted by a pet.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, pet toilets in which urine-absorbing sheets are laid are used for disciplining pet toilets such as dogs.
It is necessary to prevent the sheets from being scratched until the pet's discipline is stabilized.
Patent Document 1 discloses a pet toilet in which a grid-like cover portion is integrally provided on a presser frame of a sheet, but when the pet has been trained, the grid-like cover portion is unnecessary, but the cover portion There was a problem that could not be removed.
Further, Patent Documents 2 and 3 disclose a pet toilet provided with a cover or a net-like sheet (mesh member) having a plurality of gaps through which urine passes on a sheet and fixed with a pressing member or a frame. Since the member and the mesh member are separated from each other, there is a problem in that it takes time when changing the sheets.

Japanese Patent No. 4126311 JP 2008-29360 A JP 2005-287367 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide a pet toilet in which a sheet can be easily exchanged and a mesh member disposed on the upper surface of the sheet can be attached and detached in accordance with the situation of pet training.

The pet toilet according to the present invention includes a toilet body having a standing portion near the periphery, a frame member attached to the standing portion of the toilet body, and a mesh member attached to the frame member, and the mesh member is locked. The locking part is a claw part bent in the inner and outer direction provided near the tip of the hanging piece suspended from the periphery of the mesh member, and the frame member has a locked part. The locked portion protrudes inwardly or outwardly in the vicinity of the lower portion of the hanging portion extending downward from the inner peripheral side of the frame member and facing the locking direction of the claw portion. The mesh member locking portion is detachable and locked in and out of the locked portion of the frame member, the urine absorbent sheet is placed on the toilet body, and the sheet is meshed with the mesh member and / or all SANYO for fixing a frame member, said toilet body has a standing portion formed in the periphery, those Between the sheets mounting portion provided on the inner side of the standing portion has a recess, the bottom surface of the recess Yes and lower Ku set from the upper surface of the sheets mounting portion, the outer shape of the toilet body and the frame member The long side and the short side in a plan view are substantially rectangular shapes, and the mesh member has a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view corresponding to the inner peripheral shape of the frame member and at least one or more of the long side and / or the short side. The locking portion is included.
When the mesh member is detachably attached to the frame member, when the sheet member is replaced, if the frame member is removed from the toilet body, the mesh member can be removed together with the frame member, so that the sheet can be easily replaced, and the pet toilet is attached. When the mesh member is no longer needed, the frame member and the mesh member are not integral, and can be used as a pet toilet that does not use the mesh member.
Here, the mesh member has a locking portion, and the frame member has a locked portion. The expression that the mesh member can be detachably attached to the frame member is as follows. It is the meaning that the protruding portion may be provided on either.
As long as the mesh member has a gap through which urine passes, the shape of the mesh member may be either a lattice shape or a mesh shape.
The reason why the standing portion is provided near the periphery of the toilet body is to make the pet recognize the toilet as a toilet.

As an example of a structure in which the mesh member is detachably attached to the frame member, the mesh member locking portion is a claw protruding outward from the periphery of the mesh member, and the frame member locked portion is The example made into the to-be-latched piece which protruded to the inner peripheral side is given.
Here, what is expressed as the vicinity of the peripheral edge of the mesh member may be any position from the peripheral edge, and is not limited to the peripheral edge.

Further, the mesh member has the claw portion in the vicinity of the tip end portion of the hanging piece suspended from the vicinity of the peripheral portion, and has a mounting rib on the outer peripheral side from the claw portion, and the frame member extends downward from the inner peripheral side. Having a hanging portion extending toward the lower portion, and having the locked piece projecting inwardly in the vicinity of the lower portion of the hanging portion,
When the placing rib provided on the mesh member is placed on the upper surface side of the locked piece of the frame member, and the claw portion provided on the mesh member is locked on the lower surface side of the locked piece of the frame member, When removing the frame member from the toilet body, the mounting ribs provided on the mesh member are supported by the locked pieces protruding to the inner peripheral side of the frame member, so the mesh member does not come off from the frame member. When removing the member from the frame member, it is only necessary to turn the frame member over to release the engagement of the claw portion. For example, the mesh member can be easily removed simply by bending the frame member so that it extends outward. .

In order to increase the allowance of the claw and improve the detachability of the mesh member, between the standing part provided near the periphery of the toilet body and the sheet placing part provided inside the standing part. A recess may be provided, and the bottom surface of the recess may be lower than the upper surface of the sheet placing portion.
In this way, not only the mesh member is easily engaged by the bending of the hanging piece in the inner and outer directions, but also the claw portion located in the concave portion is pushed outward by the sheet, and the mesh member is further attached to the frame member. It is firmly fixed.

  Furthermore, the outer shape of the toilet body and the frame member has a substantially rectangular shape with a long side and a short side in a plan view, and the mesh member has a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view corresponding to the inner peripheral shape of the frame member and has a long side and a short side. When each side has at least one or more locking portions, the locking portions can be released simply by turning the frame member upside down so as to widen the long side.

  In the pet toilet according to the present invention, when a sheet is placed inside a standing portion provided near the periphery of the toilet body, and the mesh member is disposed thereon, the mesh member is used as a frame member. Since it is detachably attached, it is possible to replace the sheet only by removing the frame member from the toilet body, and conversely, the mesh member can be arranged on the sheet only by attaching the frame member to the toilet body.

  In addition, if a structure is used that engages the claw portion of the mesh member with the locked piece of the frame member, it is easy to attach or remove the mesh member to the frame member, and when the pet is completed By simply removing the mesh member from the frame member, it can be used as it is as a pet toilet.

The present invention can form a hanging piece when the claw portion is provided near the periphery of the mesh member, and even if the claw portion is provided near the lower portion, the length of the hanging piece can be absorbed by the recessed portion provided in the toilet body. Therefore, the allowance for the claw can be greatly increased.

In the present invention, since the frame member also has a rectangular shape, the mesh member can be easily detached by utilizing the deformation of the shape.

The block diagram of the pet toilet which concerns on this invention is shown, When using it, attaching a mesh member to a frame member like (a), and using it as a pet toilet without using a mesh member like (b) You can also. (A) is an external perspective view of a frame member, (b) is an external perspective view of a toilet body, and (c) is a plan view of the toilet body. The partial top view of the toilet for pets is shown. The fragmentary sectional view of the toilet for pets is shown. (A) is the fragmentary sectional view which attached the frame member and the mesh member to the toilet body, (b) shows the A section enlarged view. (A) shows a partial cross-sectional perspective view near the claw portion of the pet toilet, and (b) shows a partial cross-sectional perspective view near the fixed projection of the pet toilet. The partial top view which showed the cross-sectional position is shown. Explanatory drawing of a mesh member is shown, (a) is a partial top view, (b) is a partial expanded sectional view, (c) shows a partial back view, respectively. The enlarged view of the to-be-latched piece (latched part) of a frame member is shown, (a) is the front view which looked at the drooping part from the inside, (b) shows the sectional drawing.

Hereinafter, a structural example of the pet toilet 1 according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. However, the detailed structure may be modified within the scope of the present invention.
The pet toilet 1 includes a toilet body 10, a frame member 20, and a mesh member 30 that is detachably attached to the frame member 20, and a urine absorbent sheet 40 is placed on the sheet placing portion 15 of the toilet body 10. use.
The pet toilet 1 according to the present invention is characterized in that the mesh member 30 is detachably attached to the frame member 20, and FIG. 1 (a) shows a state in which the mesh member 30 is attached to the frame member 20. 1 (b) shows a state in which the mesh member 30 is removed from the frame member 20.
As shown in FIG. 3, the mesh member 30 has a plurality of gaps 33 formed in a lattice pattern in the lattice portion 32 in this embodiment.
The purpose of the mesh member 30 is to pass urine or the like excreted by a pet such as a dog from the gap portion 33 and absorb it into the sheet 40 fixed below it, and to prevent the sheet from being scratched. Various mesh shapes such as a mesh shape, a round hole shape, and a rhombus shape may be employed instead of the lattice shape as in the embodiment.

The toilet body 10 includes a standing portion 11 that is erected upward along the vicinity of the periphery, and a sheet placing portion 15 on the inside thereof.
Although there is no limitation in particular in the external shape of the toilet main body 10, it is a substantially rectangular shape which consists of the long side part 12 and the short side part 13 in a present Example.
The standing portion 11 is intended to allow the pet to recognize it as a toilet and prevent urine from flowing out to the outside. The standing portion 11 is necessarily required to have a uniform height over the entire periphery of the toilet body. There may be a recessed part etc. partially.
In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4A, the cross-sectional shape of the upright portion 11 is formed in a substantially inverted U shape by the inner upright portion 11a and the outer upright portion 11b, and as shown in FIG. Locking protrusions 14 projecting from the outer standing pieces 11b of the opposing long side portions 12 are formed and engaged with locking holes 24 provided in the frame member 20.
The long side portion 12 of the toilet body 10 is an example in which a cutout portion 12a is provided so that a fingertip can easily enter.
As shown in FIG. 4, the toilet body 10 has a recessed portion 16 having a bottom surface lower than the upper surface of the sheet placing portion 15 between the sheet placing portion 15 and the inner sheet placing portion 15.
The recess 16 is formed along the outer periphery of the sheet mounting portion 15, and has a conical fixing protrusion 17 for fixing the sheet 40 with the frame member 20 at a predetermined interval on the bottom surface of the recess 16. .
In accordance with the shape of the standing portion 11 of the toilet body 10, the frame member 20 has a substantially inverted U-shaped cross-sectional shape having an outer extension portion 21 a extending toward the outer lower side of the top surface portion 21 and a hanging portion 25 depending on the inner side. It has a frame shape.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 8, the frame member 20 includes a locked piece 26 having a stepped portion extending in the substantially horizontal direction from the vicinity of the lower portion 25 to the inner peripheral side. The piece 26 has a rib 28 that is bent at the tip and is located in the recess 16 of the toilet body 10, and has a substantially circular shape corresponding to the fixing projection 17 of the toilet body 10 on the back side of the locked piece 26. A fixed recess 27 is provided.

The locked piece 26 has a purpose of locking a claw portion 37 provided at the tip of a hanging piece 36 hanging from a peripheral edge 31 of the mesh member 30 described later, and a mesh member on the upper surface side of the locked piece 26. It has the purpose of receiving the lower end of 30 mounting ribs 35.
Accordingly, the latching piece 26 may be a plate extending in the substantially horizontal direction from the hanging part 25 of the frame member, but in this embodiment, the leading end side of the latching piece 26 is bent downward. In this example, a portion of the rib 28 is cut away to form the locked rib 26a.
The mesh member 30 has a mounting rib 35 that hangs from the peripheral edge 31 over the entire circumference, and has a claw portion 37 inside the mounting rib.
The claw portion 37 has two shapes along the long side portion 22 of the frame member and two portions along the short side portion 23 so as to be slightly inclined outward and project outward toward the tip of the drooping piece 36. ing.
The claw portion 37 of the mesh member 30 passes through the inside of the frame member 20 in the downward direction as the hanging piece 36 bends inward, and elastically returns to the outside, so that the hooked rib 26a of the frame member 20 Lock.
At this time, the mounting rib 35 formed on the peripheral edge of the mesh member 30 is positioned on the upper surface of the locked piece 26.
As a result, the mesh member 30 is engaged with the frame member 20 by the mounting rib 35 and the claw portion 37, and at least one or more places on the long side portion and the short side portion facing each other in this embodiment. Then, since it has the nail | claw part 37 in each two places, even if it removes the frame member 20 from the toilet main body 10, the mesh member 30 does not drop from the frame member 20. FIG.
That is, when the frame member 20 is removed from the toilet body 10, the interval between the opposed long side portions 22 is increased, but the mounting rib 35 is detached due to interference with the upper surface of the locked piece 26. It is gone.
Moreover, when removing from a toilet body so that the space | interval of the long side of the frame member 20 may be expanded, since it deform | transforms so that the short side of the frame member 20 may enter inside, a mesh member becomes difficult to fall off.
Furthermore, even when a pet such as a dog tries to lift a nail by hooking the nail on the lattice portion 32 of the mesh member 30, the mesh member's claw portion 37 is not attached to the lower surface side of the locked piece 26 of the frame member (the locked rib 26a). It does not lift up because it is locked to the lower end.
Conversely, when removing the mesh member 30 from the frame member 20, the engagement is released simply by turning the frame member 20 upside down and widening the gap between the long side portion 22 or the short side portion 23 of the frame member 20. can do.
In this embodiment, the gap portion 33 for passing urine is not provided in the peripheral edge portion 31 of the mesh member 30, but the gap portion 33 may be provided on the entire surface of the mesh member.

With the mesh member 30 fitted into the frame member 20, the frame member 20 is attached to the toilet body 10 as shown in FIG.
Further, the mesh member 30 can be fitted into the frame member 20 from above with the frame member 20 mounted on the toilet body 10.
At this time, since there is a recess 16 whose bottom surface is positioned below the top surface of the sheet mounting portion 15 between the standing portion 11 of the toilet body 10 and the sheet mounting portion 15, a mesh member is provided in this portion. Thirty claw portions 37 are inserted.
Thereby, the length of the hanging piece 36 of the claw portion 37 provided on the mesh member 30 can be increased.
Further, as will be described later, the claw portion 37 is more easily locked to the locked rib 26a by being pressed outward by a sheet.

Based on FIG. 5, the state which mounted the sheet 40 in the toilet main body 10, and fixed the sheet | seat with the mesh member 30 or the frame member 20, or both is demonstrated.
5A shows a perspective view corresponding to the BB cross section of the partial plan view shown in FIG. 6, and FIG. 5B shows a perspective view corresponding to the CC cross section.
The sheet 40 is placed on the sheet placing portion 15 of the toilet body 10.
At this time, if the size of the end of the sheet 40 extends to the recess 16 of the toilet body 10, as shown in FIG. The dimension with the inner surface is set smaller than the thickness dimension of the sheet 40, and the hanging piece 36 is pushed outward as indicated by the arrow S in the figure, and the claw portion 37 is brought close to the locked rib 26a side. Therefore, the mesh member 30 is more reliably locked to the frame member 20.
The sheet 40 is about 1 mm thick when it is new before it absorbs urine (water), but it often becomes thicker as it absorbs water.
While the sheet 40 is new, it is fixed to the back surface of the mesh member 30 by holding ribs 34 that are vertically and horizontally crossed at predetermined intervals, as shown in FIG. 7, and in the other portions, the lattice portion 32 of the mesh member 30 is fixed. A gap more than the thickness of the new sheet is formed between the back surface and the upper surface of the sheet placing portion 15 of the toilet body, so that the sheet can easily absorb urine.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pet toilet 10 Toilet main body 11 Standing part 12 Long side part 13 Short side part 15 Sheet | seat mounting part 16 Recess 20 Frame member 21 Top surface part 25 Hanging part 26 Locked piece 26a Locked rib 30 Mesh member 31 Periphery Part 32 lattice part 33 gap part 35 mounting rib 36 hanging piece 37 claw part 40 sheet

Claims (1)

A toilet body having a standing part near the periphery,
A frame member to be mounted on the standing part of the toilet body;
A mesh member attached to the frame member,
The mesh member has a locking part,
The locking part is a claw part that bends in the inner and outer directions provided near the tip part of the hanging piece suspended from the vicinity of the peripheral part of the mesh member,
The frame member has a locked portion,
The to-be- latched portion is a to-be-latched piece that protrudes inward or outward near the lower portion of the hanging portion that extends downward from the inner peripheral side of the frame member and faces the locking direction of the claw portion. Yes,
The mesh member locking portion is detachably attached to the locked portion of the frame member and locked inward and outward ,
Placing the urine absorbent sheets the toilet body state, and are not to fix the sheets with a mesh member or / and the frame member,
The toilet body has a recess between a standing part provided at the periphery and a sheet placing part provided inside the standing part, and a bottom surface of the recessed part is lower than an upper surface of the sheet placing part. Set
The toilet body and the frame member have a substantially rectangular shape with a long side and a short side in plan view, and the mesh member has a substantially rectangular shape in plan view corresponding to the inner peripheral shape of the frame member and has a long side and / or a short side. A pet toilet comprising at least one or more locking portions on each side.

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