Patent ID: 8038189
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: A01K,E01H

Abstract:
1. A tool for picking up and carrying dog dung, comprising: a shaft comprising a shaft part and a shaft support unit at one end of the shaft part; a container swingably supported with respect to a container swing axis perpendicular to the shaft part at the tip of the shaft part, the container having a concave inner wall part and a flat opening part; a cover supported on the container swingably with respect to a cover swing axis on either inner side or outer side of the container near a peripheral portion of the container in a direction opposing the container, the cover swing axis laterally passing through a center near the opening part of the container, the cover having fringing means for approaching and covering the opening part of the container and a cover part arranged inside the fringing means; and an operating means including an operation unit retained on the shaft part slidably along the axial direction and an operation member including container connecting means rotatably connected at a lower portion to a part of the container and cover connecting means rotatably connected to a part of the cover, wherein when the opening part of the container is covered with the cover by operating the operating means, the container is upward positioned perpendicularly to the shaft part; during discharging dung, the container and the cover are inclined to one side of the shaft part so as to open; and at an intermediate position of opening/closing, the container is opened in a direction for picking up the dung, and wherein the shaft support unit having a swing axis parallel to the cover swing axis; the container is supported so that a container supported part formed on one side of a rear outer wall near the opening part and having the same axis as the cover swing axis, the container supported part supported on the shaft support unit; and the container swings about the container swing axis of the shaft support unit while the cover swings about the cover swing axis in a direction opposing the container.