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A manually operated portable device for scooping dog feces into a bag by the action of a pair of opposed scoops which depend from a generally rectilinear support member having a barrel and an inner sleeve. A handle is provided at the upper end of the rectilinear member, and the handle is attached to

A manually operated portable device for scooping dog feces into a bag by the action of a pair of opposed scoops which depend from a generally rectilinear support member having a barrel and an inner sleeve. A handle is provided at the upper end of the rectilinear member, and the handle is attached to the sleeve. The handle is displaceable away from the barrel and subsequently partially rotatable, so that the pair of scoops are displaced away from each other, and the scoop end of the device is thus opened so that a bag which is mounted upside down on the scoops may receive the dog feces. The bag is held in place because the open half of the bag is turned inside-out over the outer surface of the scoops. Thereafter, the scoops are snapped shut by reverse partial rotation of the handle and subsequent displacement of the handle towards the barrel, because of the urging of a stressed elastic member such as a spring which extends between the handle and an axle at the lower end of the barrel. Thus, the dog feces is effectively removed into the bag.

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A sanitary manual scoop and dog litter bagger comprising a hollow rectilinear barrel, a partially rotatable member, said partially rotatable member being mounted at one end of said barrel, said partially rotatable member having a hollow rectilinear leg and a handle, said hollow rectilinear leg being

A sanitary manual scoop and dog litter bagger comprising a hollow rectilinear barrel, a partially rotatable member, said partially rotatable member being mounted at one end of said barrel, said partially rotatable member having a hollow rectilinear leg and a handle, said hollow rectilinear leg being partially rotatable about its longitudinal axis, said handle extending substantially transverse to said leg and being attached to the terminal end of said leg, said barrel and said leg being coaxially aligned in tandem and abutting, a sleeve, one end of said sleeve being attached to the end of said leg which abuts said barrel and extending coaxially within said barrel, the outer surface of said sleeve being contiguous with the inner surface of said barrel, so that said sleeve is slidably displaceable both longitudinally and partially rotatably within said barrel, an axle, said axle being mounted to said barrel adjacent the other end of said barrel and extending substantially transversely through said barrel and said sleeve, the other end of said sleeve extending beyond the other end of said barrel, a substantially rectilinear resilient elastic member, said elastic member extending within said sleeve and said leg, means attaching one end of said elastic member to said axle, means attaching the other end of said elastic member to said handle, said sleeve having a pair of opposed longitudinal slots adjacent its other end, said axle extending through said slots, the end of each of said slots which is juxtaposed with the other end of said sleeve having a lateral extension, so that sleeve retention recesses are defined by said lateral extensions, said axle extending into said recesses when said elastic member is elongated by longitudinal displacement of said partially rotatable member away from said barrel and subsequent partial rotation of said partially rotatable member, with concomitant partial rotation of said sleeve, a rectangular planar baffle, said planar baffle being centrally mounted to the other end of said sleeve so that said sleeve is substantially perpendicular to said planar baffle, a pair of opposed scoops, and opposed lateral means mounting each of said scoops to both adjacent corners of said planar baffle and pivotally to the ends of said axle, so that when said partially rotatable member is displaced away from said barrel, the free ends of said scoops are retracted away from each other, a deformable open-mouthed bag being mountable on said scoops with the bottom of said bag adjacent said planar baffle, so that when said barrel and the leg of said partially rotatable member are abutting, the free ends of said scoops are juxtaposed.