Pet cleaning and treatment apparatus and method
OwnerJackie Tuckerinventor
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Abstract
A pet cleaning and treatment system has a variety of operating modes, including vacuum, washing, drying, dual vacuum and drying, misting, discharge, internal cleaning and refill and reset. Different modes may be selected and initiated by a user through a control interface which is in one embodiment an interactive interface on a touchscreen of a smartphone or a pad device, and in another embodiment a voice activated unit through which the user may select modes and control functions by voice commands. There is a hand-held application instrument connected by flexible tubings to supply heated water, vacuum and mist as needed.
Claims17
A pet cleaning and treatment system, comprising:
- an enclosure supported on a floor surface on legs;
- a water reservoir in the enclosure adapted to hold a volume of water with an empty region over the water, the enclosure having a first solenoid valve in a first connector conduit through a wall of the enclosure opening on one end beneath a surface of the water and on an opposite end outside the enclosure;
- a vacuum module in the enclosure, comprising a vacuum pump with a solenoid operated valved inlet conduit opening in the empty region over the water, and an exhaust conduit through a wall of the enclosure;
- a substantially round, hand-held application instrument having a substantially cylindrical wall with a top closure, open at a lower extremity, with a second and a third connector conduit extending through the top closure upward away from the top closure;
- a plurality of especially configured flexible tubings open on both ends, adapted to engage the connector conduits;
- a source of heated water in the enclosure with a fourth solenoid valved connector conduit through the wall of the enclosure, adapted to engage one of the especially configured flexible tubings;
- a source of heated air within the enclosure with a fifth solenoid valved connector conduit through the wall of the enclosure, adapted to engage one of the especially configured flexible tubings;
- a source of heated mist within the enclosure with a sixth solenoid valved connector conduit through the wall of the enclosure, adapted to engage one of the especially configured flexible tubings;
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- control apparatus and circuitry adapted to receive input from a user and to accordingly selectively operate functional apparatus of the system including the solenoid operated valves;
- characterized in that the user connects one of the especially configured flexible tubings to one of the connector conduits on the application instrument and to one of the solenoid valved connector conduits on the enclosure, provides control input through the control apparatus, and grasps and manipulates the application instrument to treat the pet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.