Patent Application
20240130325
The present disclosure relates to a technical field of pet supplies, particularly to a litter sieve and a pet litter scoop assembly for separating unused litter pellets from used litter.
Raising a house pet is a new fashion, ever since humans domesticated dogs and cats and welcomed them to become a family member. However, disposing of pet wastes has also been a problem.
A litter box is commonly used in dealing with pet wastes. After waste excretion of the pets, the waste sticks to or soils litter particles in the litter box to form soiled waste block so as to get cleaned up before piled up too much. In separating the soiled waste block from the unused litter pellets, a litter scoop is commonly used. However, holes of a scoop in a related art may get easily stuck by the unused litter pellets, especially when the unused litter pellets are strip-shaped tofu litter. Besides, the litter scoop in related arts does not involve a convenient storage and an easy portability.
A new litter scoop with modified structures is needed.
In one aspect, one objective of the present disclosure is to provide such a pet litter scoop assembly, including a litter sieve for collecting used litter, wherein, the litter sieve includes a base part and a handle extending from the base part, the base part comprising a bottom wall and a sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, with a sieving cavity formed by the sidewall and the bottom wall, the handle connected to the sidewall, wherein, the litter sieve includes holes penetrating the bottom wall and sized such that the used litter cannot pass through the holes, and at least one guiding rib(s) protruding from the bottom wall to the sieving cavity and positioned adjacent to the holes to guide unused litter pellets in the sieving cavity to pass through the holes.
In one embodiment, the sidewall is U-shaped or V-shaped, with a notch communicating with the sieving cavity and formed by the sidewall.
In one embodiment, an array of the holes are configured on the bottom wall and the guiding rib is at least configured between two adjacent holes.
In one embodiment, an array of the guiding ribs are configured on the bottom wall, with at least one of the holes provided between two adjacent guiding ribs.
In one embodiment, the holes are elongated-shaped and the guiding ribs extends along a longitude direction of the holes.
In one embodiment, a row of holes are configured between two adjacent guiding ribs, the guiding rib having a length equal to or longer than a row length of the holes.
In one embodiment, the holes adjacent to the sidewall further extend to and penetrate the sidewall.
In one embodiment, the sidewall includes a backwall connecting to the bottom wall and the handle, and two wing walls separated by and connected to the backwall.
In one embodiment, the wing walls have a height decreasing in a direction away from the backwall.
In one embodiment, the handle includes a through hole at a distal end away from the sidewall.
In one embodiment, the pet litter scoop assembly further includes a scoop detachably connected to the litter sieve, including: a main body configured to receive the base part; and a hand sleeve part extending from the main body and configured to receive the handle.
In one embodiment, the main body includes a lower wall corresponding to and spaced apart from the bottom wall, and a surrounding wall extending upwardly from the lower wall and corresponding to the sidewall, with a receiving space formed by the surrounding wall and the lower wall to receive the base part.
In one embodiment, a distance between the lower wall and the bottom wall increases in a direction away from the handle.
In one embodiment, the hand sleeve part has a U-shaped groove to receive the handle.
In one embodiment, the hand sleeve part includes at least one protrusion formed in the U-shaped groove to abut against the handle when the litter sieve is assembled with the scoop.
In a further aspect, the present disclosure further provides litter sieve for collecting used litter, including a base part and a handle extending from the base part, the base part including a bottom wall and a sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, with a sieving cavity formed by the sidewall and the bottom wall, the handle connected to the sidewall, wherein, the litter sieve includes holes penetrating the bottom wall and sized such that the used litter cannot pass through the holes, and at least one guiding rib(s) protruding from the bottom wall to the sieving cavity and positioned adjacent to the holes to guide unused litter pellets in the sieving cavity to pass through the holes.
In one embodiment, an array of the holes are configured on the bottom wall and the guiding rib is at least configured between two adjacent holes.
In one embodiment, an array of the guiding ribs are configured on the bottom wall, with at least one of the holes provided between two adjacent guiding ribs.
In one embodiment, the holes are elongated-shaped and the guiding ribs extends along a longitude direction of the holes.
In one embodiment, a row of holes are configured between two adjacent guiding ribs, the guiding rib having a length equal to or longer than a row length of the holes.
In one embodiment, the holes adjacent to the sidewall further extend to and penetrate the sidewall.
According to the present disclosure, the guiding ribs of the bottom wall in the litter sieve may help to guide the unused litter pellets to smoothly pass through the holes. Besides, the assembling between the litter sieve and the scoop can facilitate the storage of the whole pet litter scoop assembly, and also help to save the space.
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the following will briefly describe the accompanying drawings used in the description of the embodiments. Obviously, the accompanying drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure. For a person of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings may be obtained from these drawings without creative work.
To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present disclosure clearer, embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to accompanying drawings in the following. A person of ordinary skill in the art can understand that, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, many technical details are provided to make readers better understand the present disclosure. However, even without these technical details and any changes and modifications based on the following embodiments, technical solutions required to be protected by the present disclosure can be implemented.
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The pet litter scoop assembly including a litter sieve 1 for collecting used litter 21. The litter sieve 1 includes a base part 10 and a handle 11 extending from the base part 10, the base part comprising a bottom wall 10a and a sidewall 10a′ extending upwardly from the bottom wall 10a, with a sieving cavity 100 formed by the sidewall 10a′ and the bottom wall 10a, the handle 11 connected to sidewall. The sidewall 10′ includes two wing walls 10c connected with each other directly or indirectly, with a notch 103 formed between the two wing walls 10c, so as to receive pet litter from a litter box. The notch 103 communicates with the sieving cavity 100. For example, the side wall may be V-shaped or U shaped. In this embodiment, in order to get a large volume, the sidewall 10a′ is U-shaped, and further includes a backwall 10b connected between the two wing walls 10c, with the notch 103 and the backwall 10b configured at two opposite sides of the wing walls. Herein, the litter sieve 1 includes holes 101 penetrating the bottom wall 10a and sized such that the used litter 21 cannot pass through the holes 10a, and at least one guiding rib(s) 102 protruding from the bottom wall 10a to the sieving cavity 100 and positioned adjacent to the holes 101 to guide unused litter pellets 20 in the sieving cavity 100 to pass through the holes 101.
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In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that, terms such as “first” and “second” are used herein for purposes of description and are not intended to indicate or imply relative importance or significance or to imply the number of indicated technical features. Thus, the feature defined with “first” and “second” may comprise one or more of the features. In the description of the present disclosure, the term “a plurality of” means two or more than two, unless specified otherwise.
In the present disclosure, unless specified or limited otherwise, the terms “mounted”, “connected”, “coupled”, “fixed” and the like are used broadly, and may be, for example, fixed connections, detachable connections, or integral connections; may also be mechanical or electrical connections; may also be direct connections or indirect connections via intervening structures; may also be inner communications of two elements, which can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
In the present disclosure, unless specified or limited otherwise, a structure in which a first feature is “on” or “below” a second feature may include an embodiment in which the first feature is in direct contact with the second feature, and may also include an embodiment in which the first feature and the second feature are not in direct contact with each other, but are contacted via an additional feature formed therebetween. Furthermore, a first feature “on”, “above”, or “on top of” a second feature may include an embodiment in which the first feature is right or obliquely “on”, “above”, or “on top of” the second feature, or just means that the first feature is at a height higher than that of the second feature; while a first feature “below”, “under”, or “on bottom of” a second feature may include an embodiment in which the first feature is right or obliquely “below”, “under” or “on bottom of” the second feature, or just means that the first feature is at a height lower than that of the second feature.
In the description of the present specification, the terms “an embodiment”, “some embodiments”, “an example”, “a specific example”, “some examples” or the like mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In the specification, the appearances of the above-mentioned terms are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described can be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments or examples.
Although embodiments of the present disclosure have been shown and illustrated, it shall be understood by those skilled in the art that the above embodiments are exemplary and cannot be construed to limit the present disclosure; various changes, modifications, alternatives, and variants can be made in the embodiments without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
