Patents by Inventor Robert W. Walton

Robert W. Walton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5353743
    Abstract: A urine collection device to assist in the maintenance and monitoring of the health of pets through urine analysis is taught consisting primarily of a large rectangular collection tray with a hole in its center and grooves sloping to the hole; a round sample collection cup which is placed under the hole in the collection tray; and a liquid tight lid for the cup. These three items are coordinated to be utilized in connection with a cat waste elimination system having a substantially rectangular top tray compartment and a substantially rectangular bottom tray assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Inventor: Robert W. Walton
  • Patent number: 5329879
    Abstract: An anti-litter spreading and containment device for pet animals is disclosed. It consists in a fence-like structure which substantially surrounds and sits atop almost the entire perimeter of the animal's waste collection container.The invention also includes a device which is of utility in overcoming the difficulty experienced by small kittens in using cat waste boxes, said device consisting in a ramp-like walkway which leads to the top border of the waste collection container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Inventor: Robert W. Walton
  • Patent number: 5289800
    Abstract: Minimizing or eliminating the amount of odor-laden air that leaves a cat litter box and circulates into the room is accomplished by the mixing of the cooler room air with the hotter air that rises from the animal's fecal matter to the top of the box and then out through a series of charcoal filters.This is achieved by having a dome cover (aesthetically or ornamentally designed to look like a bank) of approximately fourteen inches high, and twenty inches long by fifteen inches wide placed across the top of the litter box and/or removably fastened to same. The odor elimination or minimization starts with the cat's excretion of warm fecal matter in to the litter box or waste elimination system. As the warm, odor-laden air rises, it mixes in with the fresh cooler air entering into the dome cover from several (such as ten) designed slots on the outside of the dome cover.This diluted air automatically reduces odor by expanding the air flow to the top of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Inventor: Robert W. Walton
  • Patent number: 5193488
    Abstract: A total system to remove, store and dispose of feline (or other animal) bladder and bowel movements through the introduction of and a complete utilization of many features and sub-systems to provide ways of operating and managing a fully sanitary method of wet and dry feline bladder and bowel excretions. The system encompasses a unique urine "purification by exposure to air process," via aeration. It uses the aerification process by having the urine go through a sand or other porous material in a top tray and then through a pervious bottom of said top tray, thence dropping on a suspended porous aeration tablet or pad. This produces an aerified urine. The process is preferably aided by special chemicals implanted in the aeration table which is multi-layered. This then dries the urine, producing no odor, and provides a complete, disposable, sanitary, odorless system of urine deposits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Inventor: Robert W. Walton
  • Patent number: D268934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Assignee: Dictograph Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventor: Robert W. Walton