Animal toilet
AssigneeUni-Charm Petcare Corporation
InventorsTakayuki Matsuo, Takeshi Ikegami
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Abstract
An animal litter box is to be provided that can be cleaned easily and can reduce the number of time to change an animal litter, particularly an animal litter box that allows liquid such as urine evacuated onto the granular materials to move to a liquid-absorbing sheet efficiently. An animal litter box includes a granular material container having an opening for an animal going in and out, and a liquid penetrating bottom part on which granular materials are dispersed; and a liquid-absorbing sheet holder placed under the bottom part of the granular material container on which a liquid-absorbing sheet is placed, wherein the bottom part of the granular material container has a liquid leading part formed by connected arches on a side facing the liquid-absorbing sheet.
Claims16
1-13. (canceled)
An animal toilet comprising:
- a dripping container having an opening for an animal entering and exiting, and a liquid passing bottom part;
- and
- a liquid-absorbing sheet holder placed under the bottom part of the dripping container on for holding a liquid-absorbing sheet thereon,
- wherein the bottom part of the dripping container comprises a grid of connected longitudinal elements and lateral elements, the lateral elements defining arches on a side of the bottom part facing the liquid-absorbing sheet, and
- wherein the arches has end portions that coincide with the longitudinal elements and central portions that are spaced further from the liquid-absorbing sheet holder than the end portions, so that a liquid dispersed on the bottom part of the dripping container will be directed by the arches toward the ends of the arches.
The animal toilet according to claim 5, wherein the animal toilet has a drawer structure that houses the liquid-absorbing sheet holder, and
- wherein the liquid-absorbing sheet holder is loadably incorporated under the bottom part of the dripping container as a drawer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.