Abstract: A device for separating clean litter from soiled litter comprising a receptacle with one inlet and two discharge outlets. Soiled animal litter enters the receptacle through the inlet and clean litter is separated out from the soiled litter. When the container is tilted in a first direction, feces exit the container through the first outlet and clean litter is retained in the receptacle. When the container is tilted in a second direction, clean litter exits the container through the second outlet and clean litter is retained in the receptacle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a powder sifting device comprising a housing and a frame, the housing has a first opening communicating a second opening on which a screen is provided to form a receiving space delimited by the first and the second opening; the frame, that is received in the receiving space, is provided with a holding part at one side adjacent to the first opening and provided with a sweeping element proximately covering on the screen at other side, wherein the frame is driven by the holding part to rotate within the receiving space, and the sweeping element is moved along with the holding part to sweep over the screen according to the present invention, so that the effort-saving and easy-operation powder sifting device is obtained.

Abstract: A pet litter containment and cleaning system and methods of using a pet litter containment and cleaning system are described. The pet litter system comprises a pan module and removably attached processor module. Soiled pet litter is conveniently processed by rotating a system of the invention, screening and separating soiled litter from clean litter. Pet waste and soiled litter are collected in bags which may be discarded when full. Systems of the invention may be used with both absorbent and nonabsorbent litters. Systems of the invention minimize human contact with soiled pet litter and pet waste and simplify the care of domestic pets.

Abstract: A pet litter apparatus has an upper screen to retain litter and debris, a plurality of upper bars, a lower plurality of bars, mechanism for lowering the lower plurality of bars to define spaces for passage of particulate matter between the upper and lower bars, by rotating rods on sprockets to lower the second plurality of bars.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a system for collecting and segregating particulate food debris from the whole pieces in a packaged food product, and a system to facilitate and ease the opening of the sealed plastic/cellophane/other packaging material within an outer cardboard food box, including: an inner bag; a system of small filter holes perforating the bottom of the inner bag; an outer bag adhered thereon; a system where the composite inner and outer bags are adhered to the inside and toward the top of the cardboard box, in order to maintain a food debris collection pocket at the base of the two-bag system; two gripping devices, of a style/type to include but not limited to, a pull-ring or pull-tab; and a system for affixing the gripping devices directly opposite one another on the outside and at the top of the sealed composite double-bag packaging material, to facilitate breaking the plastic packaging system's hermetic seal.

Abstract: A free standing curved garden sieve of parabolic shape to separate stones and coarse matter from garden soil as the garden soil travels from upper substantially vertical portions to lower substantially horizontal portions.

Abstract: A pet litter separator including a container and a sifter for separating the unsoiled litter from the animal excrement and soiled litter. The sifter includes a stationery first sifter element for retaining the animal excrement and soiled litter within the container and a vertically movable second sifter element for separating the unsoiled litter from the animal excrement and soiled litter. A sifter mounts the second sifter element for relative vertical movement with respect to the first sifter element. A plurality of first sifter openings are defined within the first sifter element. The second sifter element has a first vertical position closing the first sifter openings thereby retaining litter within the container and a second vertical position unobstructing the first sifter openings enabling the unsoiled litter to pass through the first sifter openings. An actuator is interconnected with the sifter for moving the second sifter element from the first vertical position to the second vertical position.

Abstract: A system for retaining and filtering animal litter. The inventive device includes a plurality of nested receptacles for containing the litter. A screen insert is removably positioned within a corner of the receptacle to permit filtering of the litter during pouring thereof into another receptacle. A cover assembly is coupled to an uppermost one of the receptacles to preclude projection of litter therefrom by a pet.

Abstract: In the representative embodiment of the fruit server of the invention, a display container is arranged to support one or more bunches of grapes. Openings are arranged adjacent to a sloping wall portion of the container and respectively sized so that should individual grapes become detached from the clustered grapes supported by the container, those detached grapes will work themselves along the sloping bottom and fall through the openings and be collected on a lower collector container spatially disposed below the upper display container.

Abstract: A litter cleaning apparatus that has a large new litter receptacle, a waste receptacle and a cleaned and reclaimed litter receptacle. Brand new, or recycled, litter is introduced into the new litter receptacle and is opened at the bottom to release litter into a litter pan when necessary or when used litter is seen to be uncleanable. Used, soiled litter is taken from litter boxes and poured over a separator screen. Cleaned litter will fall through while waste can be dumped off the screen into the adjacent waste receptacle. The cleaned litter receptacle can be emptied from the bottom in order to fill litter pans individually or to empty the litter directly into a recycling bucket. The apparatus can be wheeled about from area or area on a large animal raising installation.

Abstract: An animal waste collection and disposal device for separating animal waste matter from granular litter material is disclosed. The device includes first and second sections, each of which has apertures which are sized and configured to permit the passage of granular litter material but substantially prevent the passage of waste matter. The first and second sections are connected by a connecting means which pivotally and slidably connects the first section to the second section so that the sections are capable of pivoting relative to each other between an open position and a closed position and slidably moving relative to each other between the closed position and a waste matter dumping position. An animal waste collection and disposal apparatus including the aforementioned device and a litter box specially designed for use with the device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A package for holding frangible particulate material, such as breakfast cereal. The package is designed to separate the crumbs or fines from the larger or unbroken and more palatable particles of cereal and to trap the crumbs so they will not recombine with the more edible portion of the cereal when the container is upended to pour the cereal into a bowl. The package has a partition member insert comprised of an apertured screening section and at least one imperforate ramp section inclined towards the screening section. The screening and ramp sections are supported above the bottom of the container to provide for sifting of the crumbs through the screening section, while the package is in its normal upright position, and to allow the crumbs to gravitate into the trapping space, defined by the imperforate ramp section, the bottom closure and the surrounding walls, when the package is tilted during pouring.

Abstract: This invention is a simple, easy to use, self-cleaning pet litter box that separates reusable litter material from solid pet droppings. This task is accomplished through the use of swelled-out chutes strategically formed along the litter box walls combined with a trough-shaped, wire mesh separator that is also built into the litter box. A hole is cut in the side wall adjacent to the wire separator with a tubular-shaped protrusion extending from the outside of this hole in the wall. By using a tilting, rotating motion, the used litter is passed through the chutes in the walls and into the wire mesh separator. The solid pet waste is trapped in the separator while the still usable litter is filtered through. With one final tilt, the solid waste is dumped through the hole in the wall, through the tubular protrusion, and into an attached disposable plastic bag.

Abstract: A cat litter box with a mechanism for screening and draining reuseable, liquid-impervious granular material contained in the box, the box having a housing with a container, the container having an inner compartment with holes for holding the granular material and draining liquids, and an outer compartment for receiving drained liquids, the inner compartment having a screen, wherein the mechanism both raises the screen through the granular material to separate solid wastes, and tips the container to drain the liquid wastes and separated solids into a collection box for removal, and lowers the container, returning the screen to the inner compartment and redistributing the granular material over the screen before the container seats in the housing for reuse.

Abstract: An improved animal sanitary litter box comprising a pair of identical matingly interfitting stackable trays, each of the trays including a slidably movable bottom panel which is movable between a first, closed position for retaining a quantity of litter, and a second, open position. Litter is sifted downwardly from an upper tray to a lower tray, while solid animal excrement is retained on the bottom floor of the upper tray. The excrement can be discarded, the tray cleaned, and then returned to the lower position of the pair of trays. The tray into which the litter was sifted can then be placed atop the now-clean first tray and the litter reused. The size of the openings defined by the movable bottom panel and the floor of the tray is selectively variable for better sifting.

Abstract: A sifting device consists of a mesh with a vertical wall and protrusions, which attach the device to the rim of a bowl of a food processor. An open-based cone is co-axial with a central rotatable hub and is provided with protuberances on the inner surface thereof. In operation, ingredients are placed in the device and protuberances engaged in turn with a projection, as the hub is rotated, so as to provide undulations of the mesh, thus tossing the ingredients in the device and introducing them into the bowl through the mesh.

Abstract: A sifter has a casing that is detachably coupled with a screen unit that also has a casing. A sifter handle is configured for detachable coupling to a conventional electric knife drive.

Abstract: An animal waste collection and disposal device of the type which contains a litter material into which animal waste matter is deposited including a pair of opposed receptacles. Each of the receptacles has wall portions defining a litter-receiving chamber which is open over at least a portion of one major planar face of the receptacle, with the open portion of each receptacle being in facing relation to the open portion of the other receptacle. A screen member is positioned in interposed relation between the opposed receptacles. Tracks on the screen member slidably receive the receptacles to interlockingly detachably engage the receptacles with the screen member to permit inversion of the assembled receptacles to, in turn, transfilter the granular litter material through the screen. Abutment members limit the longitudinal sliding movement of the receptacles relative to the screen member to align the receptacles relative to the screen member and relative to each other.

Abstract: A precious metal filings collection box for use by jewelers or other tradesmen is disclosed which provides a pilfer-proof system for collection of precious metal filings which fall from jewelry or other articles as they are worked. The collection box is shown as being part of a jeweler's bench pan and is formed of a box-like unit having a screen mesh top through which the filings fall, but the openings of the screen are too small to permit the jeweler's hand or finger to pass therethrough. A locked bottom drawer which collects the filings is provided to prevent unauthorized removal of the precious metal filings.

Abstract: A flour sifter has an upright cylinder within the interior of which a screen is disposed generally transversely to cooperate with an agitator movable over the screen to effect the sifting of flour therethrough. Affixed across the lower end of the cylinder is a first plate which includes a circumferentially-spaced first series of openings successively separated by respectively interposed first panels. A second plate, juxtaposed with the first plate, is movable about an axis extending centrally of the cylinder and includes a circumferentially-spaced second series of openings again successively separated by respectively interposed second panels. Those second openings are alignable with the first openings upon movement of the second plate to one position and are alignable with the first panels upon movement of the second plate to another position.

Abstract: Small batches of grain for household use are vacuum cleaned in a portable apparatus which can receive vacuum power from the hose of a household vacuum cleaner. Grain requiring cleaning is introduced into the device through a transparent top door and gravitates into a hopper within the apparatus having a restricted grain outlet. When suction is applied through the housing of the apparatus which is vented to atmosphere, air and uncleaned grain are propelled continuously on a circuitous path until the desired clean state of the grain can be observed through the transparent door, at which time another door of the device is opened to permit clean grain to pass into a holding chamber. A waste chamber is also provided in the apparatus and is separated by a screen from the main treatment chamber.

Abstract: A casing, in which a powdered substance to be sieved is fed, is provided with a handle portion containing a battery therein. A supporting arm extends from the inner wall of the casing and is connected with a vibratable motor cover at the center portion of the casing. A motor is mounted within the motor cover, and a weighted member is eccentrically connected to the output shaft thereof. The meshed member of the sieve is connected to the motor cover.