Animal care and/or cleaning device

Abstract

1. Animal care and/or cleaning device. 2. An animal care and/or cleaning device, having at least one brush (2), which is mounted on a shaft of the brush (16), which can be driven by an electric motor drive (36) to generate a rotary motion of the brush (2) and is rotatably mounted in a bearing device (14) provided on a support device (4, 6), and having an actuating device by means of which the drive (36) can be actuated as a function of contact of the brush (2) with an animal body, is characterized in that the bearing device (14) has at least one shaft bearing (14) which holds the axis of rotation (16) of the brush (2) in a fixed positional relationship to the support device (4, 6), and in that the drive (36) is driven by torque acting on the shaft of the brush (16) in one or other direction of rotation, caused by an impact motion of the animal body on the brush (2), is carried along at most to a predeterminable dead stop on the support device (4, 6) and that the drive triggers the actuating device (42) for the purpose of actuating the drive (36) during this motion.

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