Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
  • A01K1/00—Housing animals; Equipment therefor
  • A01K1/01—Removal of dung or urine, e.g. from stables
  • A01K1/0107—Cat trays; Dog urinals; Toilets for pets

Definitions

• the invention relates to a box for holding the faeces in the pet shark for small animals such as cats, dogs, mice, hamsters, birds and the like.
• pet litter boxes have been provided with litter so that the animals can do their business there.
• Such boxes are available for all types of pets in appropriate dimensions and shapes in order to achieve a faecal sediment suitable for the animal.
• the litter contained in the box contains water absorption and odor-binding substances, e.g. Peat, special litter, special expanded clay stones and similar materials that bind odors, collect the animals' urine and bind the faeces.
• water absorption and odor-binding substances e.g. Peat, special litter, special expanded clay stones and similar materials that bind odors, collect the animals' urine and bind the faeces.
• These boxes must be cleaned at regular intervals, the entire box having to be emptied and the litter or filling material removed.
• the disadvantage of this cleaning method is that the draining of the box is relatively labor-intensive and cumbersome because the box still has to be cleaned after emptying; the removal of the litter can not be done without residue from the box.
• the object of the present invention is to develop a box of the type mentioned in such a way that a restlo se and complete emptying of the filling material can take place without the need for additional post-cleaning of the box after emptying the filling material. It should certainly be avoided that remnants of the bedding material or faeces remain in the box. Furthermore, the present invention has the object to design the box so that the replacement and filling of the bedding material is particularly quick and labor-saving, without the risk that the bedding material is spilled when changing or filling.
• the invention is characterized in that at least the interior of the box is lined with one or more removable films.
• the box is first lined with a film.
• the bedding material is then poured onto this film and the box is used for keeping pets.
• the bedding material is replaced simply by pulling off the entire film from the box, and the bedding material remains in the film (film bag), so that the bedding material can be removed without residue from the box. In this way, the fixing of residues of the bedding material, faeces or urine residues in the box is avoided in any case.
• the foil bag with the bedding material contained therein is thrown away as a whole.
• the litter material is sold directly in such foil bags as sales units, and that the purchaser of such a foil bag with litter material contained therein only has to insert the foil bag into the box and has to line the box accordingly .
• the user therefore buys completely packaged foil bags with the filling material contained therein, the amount of which must be matched to the respective box.
• a large packaging bag which is filled with bedding material is packed with several film bags, the user now only having to simply remove a film bag in order to pour the bedding material therein.
• the number of foil bags that are added to the bag for the bedding material is dimensioned such that the contents of the bag with bedding material can be distributed one after the other onto the enclosed film bags.
• the film bags are wound one behind the other and are wound on a roll, and the user buys such a roll, from which he can then tear off the film bags one after the other.
• the box is already sold fully lined with a number of layers stacked on top of one another. The user only needs to fill in the bedding material and the box is ready to use. If the bedding material is to be replaced, the top film is removed from the box and thrown away; the next following film then appears, which can then be filled with the bedding material immediately.
• the top box is removed together with the bedding material and the next box is ready to be filled with bedding material to disposal.
• Fig. 1 schematically drawn, perspective top view of the box, which is lined with foils, in a first embodiment.
• FIG. 3 section through the box in a further embodiment.
• Fig. 4 detail section through the wall of a box in a third embodiment.
• Fig. 1 shows a box which is lined with a film 2.
• the film 2 is drawn over the edges of the box 1 so that it overlaps the upper, peripheral edge 4 of the box 1.
• Litter material 3 is filled into the box 1 in a known manner.
• the film 2 is pulled off the edge 4 and removed as a whole together with the bedding material 3.
• Fig. 2 shows that the film 2 still overlaps the edge 4 of the box 1.
• Fig. 3 shows that the film 2 can be attached to the edge 4 with additional clamping devices, such as a clamping ring 7, or a clamp 9 (Fig. 4).
• Fig. 3 shows a second embodiment of a box.
• a plurality of foils 6 are placed in a box 5 as a pack.
• the foils 6 are inserted in layers one above the other and are successively pulled off from top to bottom.
• the foils 6 can in turn be fastened by a clamping ring 7 or by clamps 9.
• Fig. 4 shows such a clamp 9, which presses a film 2 non-positively on the edge 8 of a box.

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