Patent ID: 8794186

Claim:
A disposable, covered, enclosed, collapsible, shippable, animal litter box, comprising: a) a top, bottom, left side, right side, front, and rear of a disposable sheet material; b) the sheet material bottom including a litter tray configured for holding an animal litter; c) the left side hingedly attached at a left hinge to the bottom; d) the right side being hingedly attached to the bottom at a right hinge; e) the rear being hingedly attached to the bottom at a rear hinge; f) the top being hingedly attached to the left side at a top left hinge; g) a free end of the right side spaced apart from the right hinge being attached to a free end of the top at a distance from the top left hinge and defining a top right hinge; h) an animal entryway provided in the front, the entryway defining an animal entry sufficiently large so that an animal can enter the enclosed litter box; i) the entryway including a removable seal, the removable seal being attached to the entryway in the front and sealing the entryway and substantially preventing the animal litter from going through the entry when the animal litter box is in a collapsed shipping position; j) the seal being attached to the entryway when the animal litter box is in its collapsed shipping position; k) the animal litter box being collapsible into its collapsed shipping position; l) the animal litter box being collapsible into a collapsed closed position for disposal; m) in the collapsed shipping position the front is folded down about a front hinge, the rear is folded down about the rear hinge on top of the front, an attachment is provided between the front and the rear, and the attachment is provided between the seal and the rear, the attachment is disposed so that when the rear is moved up away from the front the attachment remains attached to the seal and to the rear and causes the seal to be detached and removed from the entryway to open the animal entry so that the animal may enter the animal litter box when the litter box is in an assembled, use position; and n) in the collapsed closed position for disposal the front is folded down about the front hinge, the rear is folded down about the rear hinge on top of the front, and the seal attached to the rear by the attachment is returned to the entryway for sealing the entryway and substantially preventing the animal litter from going through the entry when the animal litter box is in its collapsed closed position for disposal.