408 results about "Litter box" patented technology

A housing has a front wall and a door, a rear wall, a pair of side walls each with a window, a bottom wall with a bottom recess with a lower hinged door, a top wall with a top aperture with an upper hinged door with a plurality of ventilation apertures, a water bottle, and a food receptacle. The housing receives animal litter on the bottom wall. Wheels are coupled to the bottom wall. A removable transportation rod is snap coupled with pivoting capabilities.

An improved hand-held two-stage cat-litter scooper tool critically configured to more effectively segregate and lift-away wet cat-litter, without causing migration into, or disturbing clean dry areas. The planar leading-edge of the scooping-blade portion, is formed to either a 90-degree triangular, or transversely-square, plan-view shape; either shape thus able to project closely into the corners of a conventional cat-litter box. The rear portion of either scooping-blade includes an approximate 40-degree transverse-bend, creating an aftward containment-bowl area, effectively holding wet cat-litter when the rearward projecting handle is tilted down (the scooping-blade thus tilting upward) after a horizontal forward scooping motion. The handle is arranged along the medial longitudinal-axis of the tool, angling upward at approximately 45-degrees relative to the plane of the scooping-blade, facilitating the special "tilt-loading action" without dragging of one's hand into the cat-litter. A further aid to performance of the tool being shoved through soiled cat-litter, includes acutely up-turned blade sides; both set slightly back from the actual frontal-sides of the scooping-blade. This particular formation being discovered to function most effectively, providing minimal disturbance to surrounding cat-litter, while very precisely shaving away waste cat-litter. Generic-variations include a preferred 2-piece construction, embodying a stainless-steel blade portion, permanently locking into a retention-groove formed into the aftward injection-molded plastic-body forming the side-walls of the essential containment-bowl; including an integral handle member thereto.

A method and system is provided that controls pet access to various different locations and/or objects. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides an automated system whereby pets are identified by sensors and allowed access to various locations and/or objects, such as food contained within a feeder dish for example. The feeder further includes a door structure and control system that keeps the pet safe through the use of a door which is made up of several repeated panels which together move to cover the food when access is not allowed and having a jam sensing system in order to protect pets from being caught in the closing door. Further embodiments employ the system to control access to litter boxes, pet toys, pet watering systems, pet gate access, pet containment systems or pet doors.

An improved disposable, cat litter box waste receptacle assembly with enclosure having a box tray (10) which in its use configuration accepts and holds a litter latrine (14). A latrine privacy enclosure cover (12) that has a cut out removable entry (16) is placed in the box tray (10) and over the litter latrine (14). The entire box assembly is made of recyclable paper products. Its interior surfaces are moisture resistant. In its shipping-inverted configuration the box assembly utilizes the box tray (10) as a top. The latrine privacy enclosure cover (12) functions as a shipping and transport container which houses a supply of litter latrines (14) each of which contain a quantity of absorbent litter (24). The assembly includes a carrying handle (18) and a closure device (20) which secure the assembly and its contents while in transport. The assembly includes all of the supplies required for its intended use.

An animal litter box having a movable hood can be used both in the open state and the closed state, and the movable hood can be compactly accommodated in the open state. The animal litter box includes an evacuation container and a hood, the hood having a fixed hood, a movable hood, and a pair of connecting portions. On the movable hood, an opening is provided to a front surface of the movable hood, wherein, the movable hood is rotatably movable with the movable hood 32 being located outside of the fixed hood, and wherein, when the movable hood is in the open state, the movable hood covers an outside of the fixed hood.

An improved automated self-cleaning litter box for cats, of the kind having a housing defining an upwardly open chamber for storage of a supply of cat litter, accessible to a cat and having path members on opposed side walls defining a comb path from one end of the chamber to the other. A comb, normally stored at the comb storage end of the chamber, is driven forward along the path to the discharge end of the chamber and back to its original storage position. As the comb traverses the chamber forwardly it engages any clumps of waste in the litter and carries them to a disposal receptacle at the discharge end of the chamber. The improvement includes a sensor for sensing the presence of a cat in the litter chamber; a photo electric sensor is preferred, but an infra red, weight, or even an audible sensor can be used. A delay device actuates the comb drive a predetermined time interval after the sensor ceases to sense the presence of a cat in the litter chamber. In the improved construction the comb path includes multi-perforate track members on opposite sides of the litter chamber; those tracks are engaged by rotatable drive wheels connected to the comb. The comb drive includes a reversible electric motor, mounted on the same carriage as the comb. A transparent, biodegradable receptacle is used; alarms for a full receptacle and for an insufficient litter supply are provided.

A versatile pet transporter can be wheeled, carried by hand, or restrained on a car seat. The handle for wheeling is telescopic, retractable, and recessed when not in use, obviating any danger from the handle in a car. Seat belts pass through six different flanges, anchoring the transporter to a car seat in all directions. The transporter may be fitted with a litter box and readily replaceable litter packages, a fan, sound monitoring, and other features.

A method and system is provided that controls pet access to various different locations and/or objects. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides an automated system whereby pets wearing an ID tag are allowed access to various locations and/or objects, such as food contained within a feeder dish for example, while a sensor system, responding to the presence of other animals or people, causes the device to close preventing unauthorized access thereto. The feeder further includes one or more sensors using ultrasonic, infrared technology or both in combination for the identification of both tagged and non-tagged animals or children. Further embodiments employ the system to control access to litter boxes, pet toys, pet watering systems, pet gate access, pet containment systems or pet doors.

The embodiment of this invention is disclosed, which describes a cat litter box, which will allow cat owners to change litter without having to touch or manipulate the soiled litter. The device consists of a box within a box. The inside box is made with swinging trap doors on the bottom of the interior part of a shell of the device. This allows the cat litter to flow freely from the interior shell to the bottom half of the exterior shell. The bottom half of the exterior shell contains a garbage bag, which catches the soiled litter and allows easy disposal. The doors, which would swing open as the cat litter box is lifted upwards, are hinged so they will freely open and close in normal operation.

A battery-powered ventilated litter box having a litter box assembly with a litter tray and a removable lid enclosure with a door opening that provides pet access to an inner space. A fan assembly includes a housing that is attached to the lid enclosure and which forms an air conduit through the lid enclosure. The housing has an air exhaust and an air intake and a fan assembly having a fan that draws air from the inner space into the air intake. A filter element is disposed within the fan assembly. The fan expels air from the air exhaust. The litter box assembly includes louvers, preferably on the sides of the litter box assembly and a downwardly extending lower rim that mates with the litter box. The fan includes a fan motor having a vertically orientated shaft. The filter element is preferably a HEPA filter.

A cat trap and cage for capturing, transporting, and temporarily housing stray, unclaimed, or feral cats. The trap is an elongated, box-shaped enclosure having a trap door at one end and a guillotine type sliding door at the other end. The trap door is mounted on hinges attached to the top wall of the cage and actuated when the cat steps on a rectangularly shaped pedal in the floor of the enclosure, causing the trap door to rotate to a closed position in order to trap the cat inside the enclosure. The guillotine door is used to obtain normal access to the cat, and the trap may be locked end to end with a litter box having a similar guillotine door. The trap door includes a detachable "squeeze" panel which may be used to urge the cat against the guillotine door at the other end of the enclosure.

A portable cat litter box comprises a lower portion having a pair of wheels mounted thereon, an upper portion that is attachable to the lower portion in order to collectively define an interior compartment for containing kitty litter, a door pivotally suspended in order to allow ingress and egress of a cat into the interior compartment, and an extension handle pivotally attached to the cat litter box to facilitate transportation thereof and which is lockable to the upper portion during non-use.

A litter box including a housing having a curved floor and a plurality of walls extending from the curved floor.

A waste box for use with a litter box, the waste box is used for collecting litter clumps removed from the litter box and for collecting litter particulate scattered onto the waste box after a cat exists the litter box. The waste box includes a bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls, a pair of end walls and a pivotable top forming a waste storage area. The top is movable between closed and opened positions. The waste box pivotable top includes an opening to direct the scattered litter particulate present on the waste box pivotable top into the waste storage area as the waste box pivotable top moves to the open position.

A cat litter box has a housing and a tray. The housing has a bottom segment and a top segment. The bottom segment has a lower chamber, a front open end and a slope. The slope is formed in the lower chamber. The top segment is formed on the bottom segment and has an upright passage and a front entrance. The upright passage is above the slope. The tray is mounted in the lower chamber through the front open end. The cat litter box is configured to provide litter-cleaning procedures to cats so that a cat may drain in the cat litter box without bring inadvertently out litter particles to pollute everywhere to result in frequently cleaning of the indoor environment.

A cleaning system is disclosed for cleaning contaminants from animal litter. In a first embodiment of the invention, a vacuum and a blower are coupled together and configured so that the blower blows a first fluid stream into animal litter simultaneous with the vacuum drawing a second fluid stream from the animal litter. Relatively light contaminants are drawn into the vacuum while the relatively heavy animal litter is left behind. In a second embodiment of the invention, a cyclonic separator is used to draw the animal litter and the intermixed contaminants into the cyclonic separator simultaneously, and separate the animal litter from the contaminants. The animal litter is returned to the area from which it was removed. In a third embodiment of the invention, mechanical agitation is coupled with air separation to further enhance separation of contaminants from the animal litter. The embodiments of the invention have particular use in cleaning horse stalls to separate the horse bedding from the allergens which collect in the horse bedding over time and present health risks to the horse, and return the horse bedding for continued use. Embodiments of the invention prolong the usefulness of the horse bedding, promote a healthy environment for the horse, and reduce the overall maintenance and health care costs for the horse.

A pet litter device which includes a tray to contain pet litter, a pivoting lifting handle connected to the tray to assist in emptying used pet litter, a ramp connectable to the tray to allow ingress and egress to the tray, a skirt adapted to be attached to the perimeter of the tray and having an opening corresponding to the position of the ramp plus an optional sifting scoop for removing pet litter detachably mounted on the underside of the ramp. The upper surface of the ramp is covered in a fabric that cleans the paws of the pet. The pivoting handle, spans the width of the tray and is foldable to encompass one end of the tray, and a single fixed handle is provided at the other end of the tray and the ramp clamps onto the fixed handle. The skirt ramp and scoop are injection moulded together and are detachably connected together prior to assembly with the tray. The injection moulded skirt ramp and scoop nest with the tray prior to assembly for ease of storage and display in retail outlets.