Pet litter separator

Claim 1

An animal waste collection and disposal device of the type which contains a litter material into which waste matter is deposited, said device comprising: an assembly including a pair of opposed substantially rectangular shaped receptacle members, each of said receptacle members having wall portions defining a litter-receiving chamber which is open over at least a portion of one major planar face of said receptacle, with the open portion of each receptacle being in facing relation to the open portion of the other receptacle; a substantially rectangular shaped screen member adapted to be positioned in interposed relation between said opposed receptacles; first guide track means carried by and corresponding to the longitudinal sides of each of said receptacles; second guide track means carried by said screen member on both opposite sides of said screen member along its longitudinal edges; said first guide track means of each of said receptacles being slidably engageable along the longitudinal direction with respective ones of said second guide track means of said screen member respectively to interlockingly and detachably engage said receptacles with said screen member in opposed relation to each other on said opposite sides of said screen member, said second guide track means protruding outwardly from between said respective ones of said side track means when said screen member is removably attached therebetween, whereby substantially sealed inversion of the assembled receptacles and interposed screen member transfers by gravity said litter material through said screen member from the upper inverted receptacle to the lower receptacle, with said waste matter being retained on the upper surface of said screen member.