Abstract: A new garment of flexible, light weight, soft and strong material, to be worn on the body by dogs, cats, mammals or the like, provided with pouches for receiving and retaining, when in use, the discharge of their solid and fluid wastes respectively.

Abstract: A new garment of flexible, light weight, soft and strong material, to be worn on the body by dogs, cats, mammals or the like, provided with pouches for receiving and retaining the discharge of their solid and fluid wastes.

Abstract: Web-type stock material having upwardly projecting filamentary elements and a defined periphery, comprising, in combination, a flexible base member for overlying a floor surface in immediately surrounding relation to a liquid egress opening in the surface, the base member having a central hole for register with the egress opening; and a three-dimensional mat carried by the base member and comprising filamentary elements distributed throughout a volume extending horizontally at least over the entire area of the hole and vertically upwardly above the base member to a locality spaced above the base member for engaging and arresting liquid-carried debris such as hair outside and above the egress opening while permitting flow of liquid downwardly into the egress opening.

Abstract: A new garment of flexible, light weight, soft and strong material, to be worn in the body by dogs, cats, mammals or the like, provided with pouches for receiving and retaining, when in use, the discharge of their solid and fluid body wastes respectively.

Abstract: A drain filter for preventing hair and debris from entering a drain of a bathtub, shower stall, lavatory, sink and the like having a liftable stopper and a flange, the article comprising a body with openings for the passage of water, shaped and dimensioned to extend completely around the external periphery of the drain, covering the area between the periphery and the top of the stopper. This body has filamentary material defining openings, the material having a plurality of outward projections above the openings to entangle hair and debris.

Abstract: A new article of flexible and springy though rigid enough water impervious material provided with spikes or bristles or open web of crinkled filaments or rough indented openings to be installed around any conventional stopper for preventing hair, hairpins, or any other object carried away with the water flow during the taking of showers or washings or the like, from entering and clogging the drainpipes of bathtubs, lavatories and the like, through an entangling action carried out by said spikes or bristles or web or rough indented openings, and said article having a body which is shaped to be adapted to surround the lifted conventional pop-up stoppers or the like, of the drain control systems of bathtubs, lavatories and the like, and which may take any of several preferred cross section forms, such as for example, a hollow core elongated semicylindrical form which is integral with a flat imperforate lower portion or base, providing several preferred undersurfaces or a hollow core cylindrical form, or a vertic