Animal self-grooming aids
OwnerRichard E. Bell, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
Self-grooming aid for animals, especially felines, whereby they can brush their fur or hair and can exercise or sharpen their claws. Such animal can stand at least partly on a base adapted to be clawed and with head or body at the level of a brush adapted to be rubbed. The brush is removable for cleaning or manually brushing the animal, and the mat is removable for replacement when thoroughly clawed.
Claims10
Animal grooming device, comprising base means having a generally flat underlying surface, for supporting an animal standing thereabove while grooming, and including respective axial holding means and peripheral holding means upstanding there from and adapted to support removably the following scratching means:
- (a) brush means having a generally cylindrical core, smaller in diameter than in length, with bristles extending laterally outward and bristles extending both obliquely and vertically upward from its upper end portion, and with its lower end portion useful as a handle for use of the brush means when apart from the base means, and as a support for the brush means when fitted removably into and so supported by the axial holding means;
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- (b) scratch-receptive corrugated mat means, in the form of a shallow cylinder having a central opening and thereby fitting snugly around the axial holding means and adapted to be laterally retained thereby at substantially the center of the base, and by fitting snugly within the peripheral holding means at substantially the outer perimeter of the base.
In an animal grooming device with a supporting base for an animal to stand on at least partly, the improvement comprising the following scratching means supported thereby:
- (a) removable brush means, supported above the base of the grooming device, having a lower part useful as a handle when not so supported, and having an adjoining upper part with bristles extending outward and bristles extending upward therefrom;
- (b) removable scratch-receptive corrugated mat supported at the base of the grooming device.
A self-grooming device for animals, especially felines, the device comprising
- a flat circular underlying base supporting an upstanding open-ended tubular central member and an upstanding peripheral rim;
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- a removable corrugated mat resting on the base and having a central opening, fitting snugly about the upstanding central member and fitting snugly within the upstanding peripheral rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.