Patent ID: 7954868

Claim:
A portable animal excrement collecting apparatus for effectively discarding animal excrement in a sanitary manner, said portable animal excrement collecting apparatus comprising: a shaft; a handle attached to a proximal end of said shaft; a trigger; a trigger actuating mechanism coupled to said shaft and said handle respectively for biasing said trigger; a collection bag positioned at a distal end of said shaft, said collection bag having an open top end for allowing a user to scoop up and collect the animal excrement; and means for automatically detaching said collection bag from said distal end of said shaft by selectively adapting said trigger to a tensed position via said trigger actuating mechanism; wherein said trigger actuating mechanism comprising: a housing statically coupled to said handle and said shaft; a lever attached to a top end of said trigger and penetrating into a cavity of said shaft respectively; an anchor pin mated to a bottom surface of said shaft and being disposed proximal to said lever while remaining seated within said housing; a resilient spring member having axially opposed ends directly connected to said anchor pin and said lever respectively, said spring member being configured in such a manner that said spring member expands along a horizontal travel path defined parallel to said shaft; and a flexible cable having a proximal end seated within said cavity of said shaft and affixed to said lever respectively, said cable further having a distal end affixed to said automatic collection bag detaching means; wherein said cable is biased to the tensed position and proximally displaced along a linear travel path defined within said cavity of said shaft as said trigger is articulated along said arcuate path and engaged with said handle, said cable being returned to equilibrium by releasing said trigger adapting said spring member to equilibrium respectively.