Patent Application
20160066542
The disclosure relates to pet nail clipping devices and more particularly pertains to a new pet nail clipping device for preventing cutting into a vein while clipping a pet's nails.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pliers having a first jaw, a second jaw, and a pair of handles. A heat sensor is coupled to the first one of the jaws wherein the heat sensor is configured for detecting a vein within a pet nail positioned adjacent to the first jaw. An alert is coupled to the pliers. The alert is operationally coupled to the heat sensor wherein the alert is actuated by the heat sensor.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A guard 38 is coupled to the pliers 12. The guard 38 is positioned adjacent to and parallel to the second jaw 16. The guard 38 provides a planar surface adjacent to space 44 between the first jaw 14 and the second jaw 16 where the pet nail 26 is cut by manipulation of the handles 18,20. Thus, the guard 38 obstructs and prevents the pet nail 26 from being trimmed more than a small amount with each use of the pliers 12.
A battery 40 is coupled to one of the handles 18,20. The battery 40 is electrically coupled to each of the first heat sensor 22, the second heat sensor 28 and the alert 30. The battery 40 may be one of two batteries 40 with each battery 40 being positioned in a respective one of the handles 18,20. A switch 42 is coupled to the one of the handles 18,20. The switch 42 is electrically coupled to the first heat sensor 22, the second heat sensor 28, the alert 30, and the battery 40 wherein the first heat sensor 22, the second heat sensor 28, and the alert 30 are powered by the battery 40 when the switch 42 is manipulated to an on position. The switch 42 may be a push button positioned adjacent to the light 32 and the speaker 34 on one of the handles 18,20.
In use, the switch 42 is manipulated to activate the first heat sensor 22 and the second heat sensor 28. The first jaw 14 and second jaw 16 are positioned on opposite sides of the pet nail 26 with an end of the pet nail 26 resting against the guard 38. If the vein 24 in the pet nail 26 is positioned too close to either the first jaw 14 or the second jaw 16, the vein 24 will be detected by either or both of the first heat sensor 22 and the second heat sensor 28 activating the alert 30. If the alert 30 is activated, a user knows not to clip the pet nail 26 as penetrating the vein 24 is too likely to occur. If the alert 30 is not activated, the user may clip the pet nail 26 by squeezing the pliers 12.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
