Easy clean animal litter box
View Patent ↗An animal litter box is designed for convenient cleaning. An animal leaves waste that is generally made up of clumps and fecal material inside or on top of animal litter. A flexible and lift-able tray is immersed in the animal litter. To clean the litter box, the tray is lifted up which strains the pet waste out of the animal litter. The tray is rotated further so the animal waste is conveniently discharged into a waste bag. The tray is returned to position for re-use by rotating the litter box so as to drain the animal litter away from the tray's normal position. The litter box is rotated back to normal position, and the tray and litter then are repositioned into a re-usable litter box.
1. An improved animal litter box for pet waste cleaning comprising:
A. a six sided rotating frame further comprising an entry side, back side, upper side, and lower side,
B. wherein the entry side further comprises a pet door,
C. wherein the back side is curved so as to allow the rotating frame to rotate,
D. wherein the upper side further comprises a rotatable lid,
E. a litter tray located on the lower side,
F. wherein the litter tray further comprises:
a. a lifting handle,
b. a rectangular shaped slotted bed further comprising:
i. a front half proximal to said pet door and a back half distal to said pet door,
ii. a center pivoting hinge that joins the front half and the back half,
iii. wherein the center pivoting hinge is oriented parallel to the pet door, and
iv. a plurality of slots,
c. an end pivoting hinge that connects the lifting handle to the back half of the slotted bed,
d. wherein the end pivoting hinge is distally located from the center pivoting hinge on the back half of the slotted bed, and
e. wherein the end pivoting hinge allows the lifting handle to rotate toward the center pivoting hinge,
G. wherein the slotted bed further comprises slots that are smaller in size than collected pet waste,
H. a pet waste pivot point on the rotating frame located under the pet door,
I. wherein the litter tray, further comprises a rotatable connection to the pet waste pivot point,
J. wherein the rotating frame resets the litter tray position and animal litter by a rotation of the rotating frame on the back side, and
K. wherein the rotating frame further comprises a thickness of at least 3 inches of the pet litter in the litter tray, and
L. wherein the lid length is between 60% to 90% of the length of the litter tray.
2. A method to clean an animal litter box by a rotation of the animal litter box comprising:
A. Providing:
a. a six sided rotating frame further comprising an entry side, back side, upper side, and lower side, wherein the entry side further comprises a pet door,
b. a curved surface on the back side that provides for the rotating frame to rotate,
c. a lid for the upper side, wherein the lid is attached by a lid hinge,
d. wherein the curved surface provides a temporary storage volume for pet litter,
e. a litter tray located on the lower side,
f. wherein the litter tray further comprises:
a. a lifting handle,
b. a rectangular shaped slotted bed further comprising:
i. a front half proximal to said pet door and a back half distal to said pet door,
ii. a center pivoting hinge that joins the front half and the back half,
iii. wherein the center pivoting hinge is oriented parallel to the pet door, and
iv. a plurality of slots,
c. an end pivoting hinge that connects the lifting handle to the back half of the slotted bed,
d. wherein the end pivoting hinge is distally located from the center pivoting hinge on the back half of the slotted bed, and
e. wherein the end pivoting hinge allows the lifting handle to rotate toward the center pivoting hinge,
h. wherein the litter tray further comprises slots that are smaller than pet waste,
i. a litter tray pivot point on the rotating frame,
wherein the lid length is between 60% to 90% of the length of the litter tray, and
j. pet litter three inches thick as measured from the bottom side,
B. allowing a pet to utilize pet litter in the rotating frame to eliminate pet waste,
C. rotating the lid to an open position,
D. lifting the litter tray out of the pet litter and discharging the pet waste to a waste container by use of the litter tray pivot point,
E. placing the litter tray back into the rotating frame,
F. closing the lid, and
G. resetting the litter tray into position by:
a. a rotation of the rotating frame onto the curved surface,
b. allowing the litter tray to hang from the litter tray pivot point,
c. allowing substantially all of the pet litter to drop to the lower side of the rotating frame, and
d. rotating the rotating frame back to horizontal.