Pooper scooper

A pooper scooper for disposing of solid wastes from a pet animal, comprising:

• a relatively short body having hollow means provided in its interior in a manner to extend along a bottom portion of said body, said hollow means having an opening formed at one end thereof as a continuation of said hollow means to communicate with the exterior of said body, linear slit means formed in the bottom portion of said body in a manner to extend along the bottom portion of said body and communicating between said hollow means and the exterior of said body, and housing means for carrying vertically stacked cartridges therein, said housing means being provided in the interior of said body, situated on said hollow means and communicating with said hollow means;
• each of said cartridges including a pair of casing members hingedly connected at one ends thereof to each other and sack means having an opening for receiving solid wastes from said pet animal, said sack means supported and contained between said casing members in a manner to be folded up;
• cartridge receiving means movably inserted in said hollow means of said body for receiving a lowermost one of said cartridges within said housing means when said lowermost cartridge drops down from said housing means toward said hollow means by gravity;
• pusher means movably inserted within said hollow means of said body for pushing out from said opening of said hollow means said cartridge received by said cartridge receiving means;
• said cartridge receiving means including a pair of cartridge receiving members pivotally connected at one ends thereof to said pusher means, and spring means provided between said cartridge receiving members to always urge said cartridge receiving members to be opened away from each other;
• first cooperating means on said cartridge receiving members and said casing members of each of said cartridges for causing one of said casing members to be held on one of said cartridge receiving members and causing the other of said casing members to be held on the other of said cartridge receiving members when each of said cartridges is received by said cartridge receiving means;
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• slidable button means arranged on an outer surface of the bottom portion of said body and supported through said slit means to said pusher means, so that when a user causes said button means to be slid along said slit means while pushing said button means, said pusher means can be moved along said hollow means while pushing said cartridge receiving means.