Abstract: An apparatus for picking up an object has an elongated handle having a lower end carrying a downwardly open bell. A tubular body inside the bell has a lower edge and can move between a lower position with this edge projecting downward past a lower bell edge and an upper position. A downwardly open bag has a closed upper end releasably retained inside the tubular body and an open end lying against an outer surface of the lower body edge. An elastic annular element engages around the body and the bag immediately above the tapered lower body edge and holds the bag against the outer surface of the lower end of the tubular body. Upward displacement of the tubular body into the upper position causes the lower bell edge to downwardly engage and push the elastic annular element downward off the tubular body.

Abstract: DEVICE TO PICK UP EXCREMENTS OF PETS AND TO SAFELY HANDLE HAZARDUOS OBJECTS, PLACING THEM INTO A DISPOSABLE BAG, consisting of a hollow handle (4), inside which axially displaces a rod (3), travelling from a rest position towards its operative position, having at its lower free end of said rod two jaws (5) in which said jaws (5) may be pressed the one towards the other to retain the bottom end of an overturned bag (13), being this bag free to be released when said jaws are opened.