Canine johnny

Claim 1

A sanitary pet toilet comprising an upright cabinet, a basin on the lower end of said cabinet forming a hopper, a sewer trap connecting said base into a sewer, a perforate platform supported in a horizontal plane above said basin in said cabinet, a flush tank mounted in said cabinet substantially above said platform, a tunnel connected to the lower portion of said cabinet to provide pet access to said cabinet, a door closing the end of said tunnel opposite said cabinet and mounted for swinging movement about a horizontal pivot through the upper edge portion of said door, a fixed gear mounted on said tunnel adjacent one side edge of said door with the axis of said gear coincident with a pivot for said door, a second gear rotatably mounted on the said one side edge of said door and having gear teeth on about one-half the circumference thereof adapted for meshing with the gear teeth on said fixed gear, a sheave mounted on said second gear for rotation therewith, a cable wound on said sheave and having one end extending therefrom, a ball flush valve in said flush tank, a plurality of pulleys in said cabinet with said cable trained thereover and connected to said ball flush valve whereby the winding of said cable on said sheave on outward swinging movement of said door will lift said ball flush valve to flush said flush tank and inward swinging movement of said door will not wind the cable on said sheave and operate said ball flush valve, a flush pipe extending downwardly from said flush tank and with a U-bend upwardly centrally through said platform terminating slightly above said platform, and cascade means on the terminal end of said flush pipe for directing a flow of water across and through said perforate platform.