Patent Application
20090172926
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Pet owners may be required by law or personal ethics, to remove excrement deposited by animals during daily walks. Pet owners typically carry grocery, newspaper or other disposable bags to collect said excrement. Once excrement is collected in said bag, the bag can be disposed of in the closest rubbish bin.
The excrement collecting bags are carried by owners in hand or pockets. It is burdensome for the pet owner to carry excrement collecting bags in hand because the pet owner is left without a free hand. Carrying excrement collecting bags in a pocket is burdensome because the pet owner will spend time pulling the bag out of his pocket and then picking up the excrement. In the meantime, the pet is ready to move on to the next tree. And, the pet owner must carry a full excrement bag to a rubbish bin with his free hand. Additionally, in colder climates, a full excrement bag, carried in hand might be put into a pocket in order to keep the hand warm. One can only imagine the problems this could cause.
Information relevant to attempts to address these problems can be found in: U.S. Pub. App. No. 20060054107 (Baker, September 04); U.S. Pub. App. No. 20030111022 (Woolley, November 02); U.S. Pat. No. 6,418,881 (Starratt, June 02); U.S. Pat. No. 6,019,067 (Carey, February 2000); U.S. Pat. No. 6,035,8089 (Fingerett, March 02); U.S. Pat. No. 6,073,590 (Polding, June 00); U.S. Pat. No. 5,727,500 (Conboy, March 98); U.S. Pat. No. 5,718,192 (Sebastian, February 98); U.S. Pat. No. 5,441,017 (Lindsay, August 95); EP-0,619,944 (Aerni, October 94); U.S. Pat. No. 5,363,809 (Roe, November 94); U.S. Pat. No. 5,184,762 (Nevitt, February 93). However, each of these references suffers from one or more of the following disadvantages:
This invention provides the pet owner with a leash that has a readily accessible storage area for empty excrement collecting bags. Because of its simple design, any additional bulk added to the leash because of this invention is negligible. Consequently, the leash can be folded and stored as usual; the pet owner need not think of or care for additional gadgets attached to the leash.
Also, because of its simple design, this invention allows the pet owner to remove only the excrement collection bag needed in the ready use position. Once the excrement collecting bag has been used, it can be attached to the invention so that the excrement does not fall out of the excrement collecting bag.
This invention provides the pet owner with a leash that has a readily accessible storage area for empty excrement collecting bags. Because of its simple design, any additional bulk added to the leash because of this invention is negligible. Consequently, the leash can be folded and stored as usual; the pet owner need not think of or care for additional gadgets attached to the leash.
Additionally, because of its simple design, this invention allows the pet owner to remove only the excrement collection bag needed in a ready use position. Once the excrement collecting bag has been used, it can be attached to the invention so that the excrement does not fall out of the excrement collecting bag.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed descriptions of the preferred embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which:
a shows how a bag can be folded prior to attaching it to the invention;
The present invention is directed at a leash that provides a securing device to store empty and used excrement collection bags and methods to use the securing device. As shown in
In the preferred embodiment, shown in
Although the user of the leash can use his ingenuity to determine how best to use the securing device, there are two preferred methods. The first method relates to bags, with or without handles, and other items, such as toys. The second method relates to bags that have handles such as grocery bags.
For bags the do and do not have handles a method of use is shown in
In view of the above, it will be seen that various aspects and features of the invention are achieved and other results and advantages can be attained. For example, the securing device can also be used to carry toys, keys, wallets, among others. While preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modification may be made therein without departing from the invention in its broader aspects.
