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US 9,510,558 B2Granted
Sanitation device for domestic animals
AssigneeAlternatech
InventorM. Tanguy Tilmant
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Abstract
An area for accommodating a domestic animal, which is arranged to receive the excretions thereof and which includes an animal discharge-pipe leading into a human discharge-pipe placed between an area for accommodating humans, which is arranged to receive the excretions of the latter, and a sewage-discharge pipeline, the area for accommodating a domestic animal further including a rotatable sealing device having a first position for enabling the animal excretions to be received, and a second position for enabling the animal excretions to be discharged.
Claims13
A sanitation device comprising:
- an area for accommodating a domestic animal which is arranged to receive animal excretions thereof and which includes an animal waste discharge pipe leading into a human waste discharge pipe placed between an area for accommodating humans, which is arranged to receive excretions of the humans, and a sewage discharge pipe line, said area for accommodating the domestic animal further including a rotatable sealing device having a first position for enabling receiving of said animal excretions, and a second position for enabling discharge of said animal excretions, characterised in that said rotatable sealing device separates and isolates said area for accommodating the domestic animal from said animal waste discharge pipe, said rotatable sealing device is a cylinder provided with a central horizontal axis parallel to a horizontal plane, said cylinder having at least two cavities that are diametrically opposite and curved over the entire length of said cylinder in a trigonometric frame of reference of which the axes are superposed over the medians of the section of the cylinder taken in the middle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.