Patent ID: 6305322
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: E01H

Abstract:
An animal waste pick-up device comprising an elongated exterior tubular pole having a hollow tube mounted at one end thereof and rigidly attached thereto, an interior manipulator rod is slidingly movable within said exterior tubular pole, said manipulator rod has at one end thereof a manipulator handle thereon and at another end of said manipulator rod has a sleeve attached thereto, means for separably attaching said manipulator rod to a scooper claw of plastic material having four arms attached thereto including a bushing, said scooper claw has a circumference which is substantially larger, when laid out flat, than the inner diameter of said hollow tube, whereby, when said interior manipulator rod is pulled into said tubular pole, the arms of said scooper claw will collapse into said hollow tube while at the same time scraping said waste from a surface of the ground.