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US 5,279,258 AGranted
Automated portable pet toilet
OwnerKihachiro Kakutainventor
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Abstract
A portable electromechanical apparatus for easily and hygienically managing and disposing of pet wastes. The apparatus contains separate solid and liquid waste collectors and containers, located beneath a platform. A waste receiving member is provided upon the platform upon which a pet's solid waste is deposited. Electronic circuitry detects the presence of a pet and judges whether excretion has taken place, whereupon the waste receiving member, bearing the excrement, is moved off the platform and into a solid waste receptacle. A mechanism for automatically opening the solid waste receptacle is provided.
Claims28
A portable pet toilet comprising:
- a platform;
- a reel;
- a strip of waste-receiving material rolled upon said reel and movable across said platform;
- a solid waste receptacle below said platform;
- a free end of the strip disposable into said solid waste receptacle;
- motorized means for moving said strip across said platform and into said solid waste receptacle;
- and
- a liquid waste receptacle separate from the solid waste receptacle and located below the platform to collect liquid waste that passes through said platform.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.