Toilet for animal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017367294-A1
Application number	US-201514760936-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 9, 2015
Priority date	Mar 2, 2015
Publication date	Dec 28, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

An animal toilet has a front-rear direction, a right-left direction and an up-down direction that intersect each other. The animal toilet is provided with an upper container that is provided with a plurality of holes through which urine passes below, a lower container that is positioned below the upper container and has formed an insert hole on a front face, and a tray that is housed from the insert hole into the lower container in a manner being allowed to be pulled out forward, and made to receive and store the urine that falls through the holes of the upper container. A front part of the tray is not protruding in front of the front face of the lower container when seen from the right-left direction. The front part of the tray has an exposed portion. An upside and a downside of the exposed portion are exposed to an outside space. An upper part and a lower part of the exposed portion are respectively provided with a geometrically deformed portion having a shape changed from a surrounding portion.

First claim

1 : An animal toilet having a front-rear direction, a right-left direction and an up-down direction that intersect each other comprising:
an upper container that is provided with a plurality of holes through which urine passes below; a lower container that is positioned below the upper container and has formed an insert hole on a front face; and a tray that is housed from the insert hole into the lower container in a manner being allowed to be pulled out forward, and made to receive and store the urine that falls through the holes of the upper container, a front part of the tray not protruding in front of the front face of the lower container when seen in the right-left direction, the front part of the tray having an exposed portion, an upside and a downside of the exposed portion being exposed to an outside space, and an upper part and a lower part of the exposed portion being respectively provided with a geometrically deformed portion having a shape changed from a surrounding portion.

2 : An animal toilet according to claim 1 , wherein
the geometrically deformed portion of the upper part is a recessed part that is recessed downward and the geometrically deformed portion of the lower part is a recessed part that is recessed upward.

3 : An animal toilet according to claim 2 , wherein
the recessed part of the upper part and the recessed part of the lower part communicate with each other in the up-down direction to form a through hole.

4 : An animal toilet according to claim 1 , wherein
the front face of the lower container has formed a concave face concaved rearward adjacent above the insert hole.

5 : An animal toilet according to claim 4 , wherein
a protruding face protruding rearward accompanied by the rearward concave deformation of the concave face is formed, to oppose a lower face of the upper container, at the rear of the concave face and the protruding face is positioned in front of all of the plurality of holes.

6 : An animal toilet according to claim 4 , wherein
the tray has placed from above an absorbent sheet that receives and absorbs the urine that falls through the holes of the upper container, a protruding face protruding rearward accompanied by the rearward concave deformation of the concave face is formed, to oppose a lower face of the upper container, at the rear of the concave face, and the protruding face is positioned in front of a placing area of the absorbent sheet in the tray.

7 : An animal toilet according to claim 1 , wherein
the tray has placed from above an absorbent sheet that receives and absorbs the urine that falls through the holes of the upper container, and portions in front of the placing area of the absorbent sheet in the tray and on two sides on a right and a left of the geometrically deformed portion, respectively have a space partitioned and surrounded by wall parts in four directions of a front, a rear, a right and a left.

8 : An animal toilet according to claim 7 , wherein
the space being surrounded by a wall part from also below is a space with a bottom and has only an upper side opened.

9 : An animal toilet according to claim 8 , wherein
the space with the bottom is positioned in the lower container when the tray is in a state housed in the lower container and the space with the bottom contains a fragrant or a deodorizer.

10 : An animal toilet according to claim 4 , wherein
a protruding face protruding rearward accompanied by the rearward concave deformation of the concave face is formed, to oppose a lower face of the upper container, at the rear of the concave face, the upper container is placed and supported on the lower container in an appropriate placing state where the upper container does not come into contact with the protruding face, when the upper container is placed in an orderly direction along the front-rear direction, and the upper container positioned above the appropriate placing state is in an inappropriate placing state when the upper container is positioned in a direction opposite the orderly direction with regard to the front-rear direction by the upper container coming into contact with the protruding face of the lower container.

11 : An animal toilet according to claim 4 , wherein
a front side of the upper container is an entrance/exit opening for an animal to go into/come out from the upper container, a plurality of particulate matters are placed on a bottom face of the upper container, a protruding face protruding rearward accompanied by the rearward concave deformation of the concave face is formed at the rear of the concave face, a portion positioned above the protruding face of the upper container includes a part with a level difference on an upper face, two portions positioned different from each other in the up-down direction are adjacent in the front-rear direction via the part with the level difference, a front portion among the two portions is positioned above a rear portion in the up-down direction, and the front portion does not have the particulate matters placed.

Assignees

• Unicharm Corp

Inventors

• Takagi Chiyo
• Kaneko Shinya

Classifications

• A01K1/0114

  Litter boxes with screens for separating excrement from litter · CPC title

• A01K23/00

  Manure or urine pouches · CPC title

• A01K1/0107 Primary

  Cat trays; Dog urinals; Toilets for pets · CPC title

• A01K1/015

  Floor coverings, e.g. bedding-down sheets {; Stable floors} · CPC title

• A01K1/0157

  Mats; Sheets · CPC title