KR101343515B1 - Disposing apparatus for pet excrements - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pet toilet treatment apparatus, the lower body that contains the culture soil in which the microorganisms; Water supply means installed in the lower body to supply water to the culture soil; Heating means installed on the lower body to maintain a constant temperature of the culture soil; Stirring means installed on the lower body to stir the culture soil; An upper body detachably coupled to an upper surface of the lower body and having a toilet opening open at a predetermined size on a bottom surface thereof; Sensing means installed on the upper body to detect the access of the pet; Opening and closing means for opening and closing the toilet of the upper body; And a controller for controlling the water supply means, the heating means, the stirring means, the sensing means, and the opening and closing means.

Description

Disposing apparatus for pet excrements}

The present invention relates to a pet stool processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a pet stool processing apparatus that can handle the pet's stool more hygienic, clean and simple.

In general, pets such as dogs or cats have a petty toilet when the pet's stool is handled, and the pet is allowed to see the stool on the floor with a paper or diaper sheet, such as a newspaper, on the floor. And diaper sheets are thrown into the trash.

However, in this case, not only the smell of the pet's toilet spreads indoors, but also the pet's toilet is often discharged out of paper, and the indoor floor is contaminated by the pet's toilet. There was a disadvantage that it was rather expensive to throw away after one use.

Therefore, in the related art, as a part of hygienic solution to the feces of a pet, a pet toilet as in [Document 1] was developed.

The toilet for the pet disclosed in the conventional [Document 1] is to provide a place for pets to be excreted, the receiving space is formed therein, a grid-like filtering network is provided on the upper side, to one side An excretory portion formed with a receiving port communicating with the receiving space; A catchment part formed in the excrement part to collect the excrement introduced through the filter net, the inlet of which is inclined downwardly at a center thereof, and a drain hole through which a drain hole for draining the excrement is formed; A storage unit positioned below the water collecting unit and configured to store and store the excrement collected through the water collecting unit; Located on the drain port of the water collecting portion and the excrement is directed to the receiving portion, while the odor generated in the excrement stored in the receiving portion includes a malodor blocking portion is provided so as not to be exposed to the outside, the malodor blocking portion is cylindrical A shaft guide having an accommodating space therein, and having a plurality of supports at its ends, the shaft guide being fixedly spaced apart from an upper portion of the drain hole formed in the water collecting portion; An opening shaft having one end positioned in the shaft guide and the other end positioned at an end of the drain port to selectively open and close the drain port; A spring fitted to an outer circumferential surface of the opening and closing shaft located in the shaft guide; Disclosed is a pet toilet comprising a pressure shaft in which one end is fixedly coupled to a center lower portion of the filter net and the other end is in contact with one end of the opening and closing shaft.

[Document 1] Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-0967115 (name: pet toilet), registration date: June 23, 2010, Figures 2 to 9

However, in the conventional pet toilet disclosed in [1], the feces (feces) of the pet is finally collected in the storage unit, the person directly withdraws the catch and the storage unit from the excretion unit lid of the storage unit After opening the stool, the toilet is discarded. At this time, a person's hand is directly exposed to the stool, which is unsanitary. there is a problem.

In addition, such a conventional toilet for pets has a problem that various fetuses grow as well as severe odors because the feces of pets are left as they are exposed to the air before they are removed by a person.

Therefore, the present invention has been devised to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, by treating the pet's stool as a cultured soil with beneficial microorganisms by natural decomposition to make the pet more hygienic, clean and simple to handle It is an object of the present invention to provide a waste treatment apparatus.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a pet stool processing apparatus that prevents bacterial growth by removing exposure to the air by covering the feces of pets excreted inside the toilet to prevent bacterial growth. Is in.

The above object is, the lower body that contains the culture soil in which the microorganisms are present; Water supply means installed in the lower body to supply water to the culture soil; Heating means installed on the lower body to maintain a constant temperature of the culture soil; Stirring means installed on the lower body to stir the culture soil; An upper body detachably coupled to an upper surface of the lower body and having a toilet opening open at a predetermined size on a bottom surface thereof; Sensing means installed on the upper body to detect the access of the pet; Opening and closing means for opening and closing the toilet of the upper body; And a controller for controlling the water supply means, the heating means, the stirring means, the sensing means, and the opening and closing means.

And, the opening and closing means is installed on the lower surface of the upper body cover for opening and closing the toilet; A rack gear extending from the cover; A pinion gear meshed with the rack gear to move the cover through the rack gear; And a motor for forward and reverse rotation of the pinion gear, wherein the toilet treatment apparatus further includes a fragrance apparatus controlled by a controller to spray fragrance after toilet of the pet.

In addition, the water supply means is a water tank installed in the lower body; Spray nozzle for supplying the water stored in the water tank to the culture soil; And a water pump for supplying water from the water tank to the spray nozzle, wherein the heating means includes a heat pipe or a heating wire installed inside the lower body, and the stirring means is inside the lower body. It is installed in the agitator or agitator to agitate the culture soil, the sensing means comprises a light emitting sensor and a light receiving sensor respectively installed on both inner surfaces facing the upper body.

According to the pet stool processing apparatus of the present invention, the stool seen by the pet in the upper body of the toilet drop into the culture soil of the lower body through the stool, beneficial microorganisms in the culture soil by treating the natural decomposition of the stool, pet stool It is hygienic, clean and easy to handle.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, by supplying the appropriate moisture and temperature to the culture soil to provide an optimal environment for the growth of microorganisms, it is possible to quickly treat the feces of pets due to the growth of more microorganisms, Since the culture soil is stirred by the agitating means configured, the stool can be quickly decomposed and processed.

In addition, according to the present invention, after the excretion of the pet cover the toilet, the fragrance is sprayed to block the exposure of the excrement to the air to prevent bacterial growth, to eliminate the odor of excreta.

1 is a coupling diagram showing a pet toilet treatment apparatus according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is an exploded view showing the configuration inside the lower body of the pet toilet treatment apparatus according to the present invention.
3 is a view showing another embodiment of the stirring means according to the present invention.
4 is an exploded view showing a cover configured in the toilet of the upper body according to the present invention through the embodiment of FIG.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 4 is a view showing the pet toilet treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Pet toilet treatment apparatus of the present invention, as shown in Figure 1, is implemented through a pet toilet (100), the toilet 100 is a box-shaped lower body 110, the upper surface is opened, the lower It includes an upper body 160 detachably coupled to the upper surface of the body (110).

2 and 3, the lower body 110 is stored in the culture soil 120 is contained therein, the culture soil 120 has a beneficial microorganisms are present in the pet soil dropped on the culture soil 120 Natural stool is removed by natural decomposition. Meanwhile, the culture soil 120 in which the beneficial microorganisms are present may be composed of conventional culture soil used for the purpose of improving the contaminated soil or purifying the waste water.

In addition, the lower main body 110 in which the culture soil 120 is stored as described above further includes a water supply means, a heating means, a stirring means, and an aroma means.

The water supply means is to breed the microorganisms present in the culture soil 120 by supplying water to the culture soil 120 stored in the lower body 110, one end of the lower body 110 to supply to the culture soil 120 A water tank in which water is stored, that is, a water tank 130 is formed, and a spray nozzle 132 for spraying and supplying water stored in the water tank 130 to the culture soil 120 is installed inside the lower body 110. . In addition, a water pump 131 is installed between the spray nozzle 132 and the water tank 130 to pressurize the water in the water tank 130 at a predetermined pressure to spray the spray nozzle 132 through the spray nozzle 132. At this time, the water pump 131 may be installed inside the water tank 130 so that a portion thereof is submerged in water, as shown in Figure 2, or in the present embodiment, although not shown in the outer surface of the lower body 110 It can also be installed in.

The stirring means is installed inside the lower body 110 in which the culture soil 120 is stored. Such a stirring means may be composed of a stirrer 150 shown in FIG. 2 or a screw shaft 151 shown in FIG. 3, and the stirrer 150 and the screw shaft 151 may be formed by a respective motor ( 152, 153 is rotated by the culture soil 120 in the lower body 110 is stirred. On the other hand, the motor 152, 153 for rotating the stirrer 150 or the screw shaft 151 may be configured anywhere of the lower body 110, in this embodiment is isolated in the water tank 130 For example, the water stored in the water tank 130 is preferably filled and stored to the extent that it does not overflow to the motors 152 and 153 side. In addition, the stirrer 150 exemplifies a stirrer having a plurality of blades formed on a rotating shaft as shown in FIG. 2, but is not limited thereto, and may only satisfy conditions for stirring the culture soil 120. It is noted that any stirrer or screw shaft can be applied regardless of shape, structure or number. On the other hand, such a stirrer 150 of Figure 2 is preferably installed in the inner lower portion of the lower body 110, the screw shaft 151 of Figure 3 is preferably installed in the inner central portion of the lower body (110).

The heating means is installed to circulate the bottom surface on the inner bottom surface side of the lower body 110 to provide an optimal temperature so that the microorganisms of the culture soil 120 can grow well. The heating means may be composed of a conventional heat pipe 140 as shown in Figures 2 and 3, or may be composed of a heating coil that is not shown in this embodiment, that is, a heating wire. In addition, the heating means is more preferably configured below the stirrer 150.

The direction means, as shown in Figure 4, one end of the lower body 110 sprays the air freshener to the side of the culture soil 120 dropping the feces of pets to remove the smell of excretion aroma device 200 to ventilate the surroundings ) Is installed. This fragrance 200 may be configured with a conventional fragrance injection device, etc., it is preferable to operate like a stirring means after the toilet of the pet.

The water supply means, the stirring means, the heating means, the directional means, the sensing means to be described later, and the opening and closing means are controlled by the controller 180 provided at one side of the lower body 110.

On the other hand, the upper body 160, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, the upper surface is a box shape, the front side of the edge of the side is formed with an entrance 161 so that pets can enter. In addition, the inner bottom surface of the upper body 160 is a scaffolding portion 162, the central portion of the petty stool of the elliptical shape so that the toilet of the pet can fall to the culture soil 120 of the lower body 110. ) Is formed.

In addition, the upper body 160 is configured with a sensing means for detecting the entry and exit of the pet, the sensing means may be composed of an optical sensor or a weight sensor. On the other hand, in the case of configuring the sensing means as a light sensor as in this embodiment, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the light emitting sensor 170 and the light receiving sensor respectively on both inner surfaces facing the upper body 160 By installing the 171 can detect the access of the pet, although not shown, if the sensing means is configured as a weight sensor, by installing a weight sensor on the footrest 162 of the upper body 160 to the footrest ( In accordance with the weight change of 162) it is possible to detect the entry and exit of the pet.

Therefore, the controller 180 is the water supply means, the stirring means, the heating means, the direction means, the opening and closing means to be described later in accordance with the detection signal by the light emitting sensor 170 and the light receiving sensor 171, the sensing means of the present embodiment To control the operation of the lamp.

In addition, an opening and closing means for opening and closing the toilet 163 is formed on the lower surface of the upper body 160, the opening and closing means is installed on both sides of the lower surface of the upper body 160 to open and close the toilet 163. A plurality of the cover 190, the rack gear 191 extending to one end of the cover 190 and the rack gear 191 is engaged with the slide the cover 190 through the rack gear 191 A pinion gear 193 for moving and a motor 192 for driving the pinion gear 193 are included.

Here, the both cover 190 is a stable slide movement is made by a plurality of guides (194) installed on the lower surface of the upper body 160, both rack gears 191 installed on both cover 190 is constant Spaced apart from each other, and between the rack gear 191, the pinion gear 193 is installed to be engaged with both rack gear 191, the motor 192 for driving the pinion gear 193 to rotate It consists of a motor capable of reverse rotation. Accordingly, the pinion gear 193 is rotated forward and backward by the forward and reverse rotation driving of the motor 192 to pull or open both rack gears 191 to slide the cover 190.

On the other hand, the two cover 190 is operated in this way is normally open the toilet 163, after closing the toilet 163 after the pet toilet, close the toilet 163 closed, stirring Preferably, both covers 190, which were closed after the operation of the means, are designed to reopen.

4 illustrates that the guide 194 is configured only on one side of the lower surface of the upper body 160, but is not limited thereto, and the guide 194 is not limited thereto, but only if the condition capable of stably guiding the movement of the cover 190 is satisfied. Any design changes can be made in advance.

The operation of the pet toilet treatment apparatus according to the present invention configured as described above will be described.

First, in a state in which the upper body 160 and the lower body 110 is separated from the inside of the lower body 110, a sufficient filling of the culture soil 120 with beneficial microorganisms, and then filled with water in the water tank 130 appropriately , The upper body 160 is coupled to the upper surface of the lower body 110 to complete the assembly of the toilet for the pet (100).

Thereafter, when the pet enters the inside of the upper body 160 through the doorway 161 and looks out the toilet, the light emitting sensor 170 and the light receiving sensor 171 respectively installed on both inner surfaces facing the upper body 160. The presence or absence of pets is detected by the controller, and the controller 180 recognizes that the pet has left the toilet by the detected signal.

At this time, the stool of the pet is on the culture soil 120 of the lower body 110 through the stool 163 of the upper body 160, the pet during the stool is the footrest of the upper body 160 ( 162) because the culture soil 120 is not directly stepped on the sanitary and the surroundings of the toilet 100 is clean.

Meanwhile, the controller 180 recognizes that the pet has left the toilet by the light emitting sensor 170 and the light receiving sensor 171, and simultaneously operates the opening and closing means, the stirring means, and the direction means simultaneously or sequentially.

That is, the motor 192 operated by the controller 180 rotates the pinion gear 193 forward, and both rack gears 191 engaged thereto by the forward rotation of the pinion gear 193 are pulled out of both covers 190. ) Is moved to the center side of the toilet 163 to close the toilet 163. At this time, the cover 190 and the rack gear 191 is guided by a plurality of guides 194 installed on the lower surface of the upper body 160 is reliably sliding movement.

Meanwhile, in addition to the operation of the cover 190, the controller 180 operates the stirrer 150 of FIG. 2 or the screw shaft 151 of FIG. 3 to stir the culture soil 120 while in the toilet mixed with the culture soil 120. The solid mass (stool) is pulverized finely, and the crushed mass of stool is naturally decomposed and removed by the beneficial microorganisms present in the culture soil 120.

And, the aroma device 200 by the controller 180 is sprayed with a perfume to the culture soil 120 side before the pet leaves the toilet 100 after the toilet and the cover 190 closes the toilet 163. By neutralizing and removing the odor, it is possible to ventilate the odor around the toilet bowl 100. This spraying of fragrance may be activated once more when the cover 190 is opened again after the agitation means are operated.

Therefore, the person does not have to collect the pet's toilet directly, so that the pet's toilet can be hygienic, clean, and easily disposed of, and the toilet 163 is closed after the pet's excretion to prevent external exposure of the feces. Therefore, it is possible to prevent bacterial growth and to remove the odor of excreta by spraying the fragrance.

On the other hand, after the operation of the stirring means as described above, the controller 180 controls the motor 192 of the opening and closing means to reverse the pinion gear (193), the engaged both rack gears 191 is moved to the open side As a result, both cover 190 is also moved to both sides to open the toilet 163 as usual. Of course, at this time, the aroma device 200 by the controller 180 may spray the air freshener once more to ventilate the surroundings again.

In addition, the controller 180 controls the water supply means and the heating means so that the microorganisms present in the culture soil 120 can multiply well. That is, the controller 180 operates the water pump 131 to pressurize the water stored in the water tank 130 at a predetermined pressure and spray the water to the culture soil 120 through the spray nozzle 132 to supply the heat pipe 140. By operating) to provide a suitable temperature for the microorganism to multiply well to the culture soil 120 to create an optimal environment to be able to multiply the microorganism.

On the other hand, the stirring means controlled by the controller 180 is preferably operated every time the pet sees the toilet, opening and closing means, the direction means of the cover 190 is preferably operated in conjunction with the stirring means, The water supply means and the heating means are preferably input to the controller 180 and operate constantly at a set time.

100: toilet 110: lower body
120: cultured soil 130: water tank
131: water pump 132: spray nozzle
140: heat pipe 150: stirrer
151: screw shaft 152, 153: motor
160: upper body 161: entrance
162: scaffolding 163: toilet
170: light emitting sensor 171: light receiving sensor
180: controller 190: cover
191: rack gear 192: motor
193: Pinion Gear 194: Guide
200: aroma device

Claims (7)

A lower body containing the cultured soil in which microorganisms are present;
Water supply means installed in the lower body to supply water to the culture soil;
Heating means installed on the lower body to maintain a constant temperature of the culture soil;
Stirring means installed on the lower body to stir the culture soil;
An upper body detachably coupled to an upper surface of the lower body and having a toilet opening open at a predetermined size on a bottom surface thereof;
Sensing means installed on the upper body to detect the access of the pet;
Opening and closing means for opening and closing the toilet of the upper body; And
And a controller for controlling the water supply means, the heating means, the stirring means, the sensing means, and the opening and closing means. The method according to claim 1,
The opening and closing means is installed on the lower surface of the upper body cover for opening and closing the toilet;
A rack gear extending from the cover;
A pinion gear meshed with the rack gear to move the cover through the rack gear; And
And a motor for rotating the pinion gear forward and backward. The method according to claim 1,
The stool processing apparatus further comprises a fragrance device controlled by a controller for spraying the fragrance after the stool of the pet. The method according to claim 1,
The water supply means is a water tank installed in the lower body;
Spray nozzle for supplying the water stored in the water tank to the culture soil; And
Pet stool processing apparatus comprising a; water pump for pumping the water of the water tank by supplying the spray nozzle. The method according to claim 1,
The heating means pet waste treatment apparatus including a heat pipe or a heating wire installed in the lower body. The method according to claim 1,
The stirring means is installed inside the lower body pet waste treatment apparatus including a stirrer or screw shaft for stirring the culture soil. The method according to claim 1,
The sensing means is a pet toilet treatment apparatus comprising a light emitting sensor and a light receiving sensor respectively installed on opposite inner surfaces of the upper body.

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