Patent ID: 6234549
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A hand-held cat-litter scooping-tool device providing more effective sifting of non-clumping type cat-litter, employing a critical combination of scooping and containment contours and dimensions facilitating a unique two-stage operation minimalizing migration of cat wetted areas into clean dry areas within an existing cat-litter box, first segregating by submerging beneath a wetted-spot, then tilting aft to thereby separately contain and lift away only the wetted cat-litter; said device comprising:an imperforate planar scooping-blade portion projecting medially forward from an imperforate transverse transitional-bend contouring of approximately 30-45 degrees, plus imperforate right and left side-wall portions formed oppositely aftward of said transverse transitional-bend contouring and contiguously with an imperforate transverse rear-wall portion of approximate 11/2-inch minimum height, and an imperforate bottom portion forming a containment-bowl portion of approximate minimum 31/2-inch width arranged proximally aft of said transitional-bend contouring; and, a handle portion arranged along the medial longitudinal-axis of the scooping-tool device and extending aftward from said rear-wall portion of said containment-bowl portion at an attitude preventing a user's hand contacting the cat-litter surface during a tilting aft sequence of operation.