Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Dish or bowl type
Utility Patent
1998-07-20
2001-01-02
Poon, Peter M. (Department: 3644)
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Dish or bowl type
C119S072000
Utility Patent
active
06167840
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to an animal-feeding dish for protecting food in the dish from infestation by ants, roaches, and other vermin.
FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH
No part of this patent application was developed with the aid of any federally sponsored research and development.
BACKGROUND AND RELATED ART
Many animals, such as cats will not eat food from a food dish, which is infested with ants or other vermin or has the odor of rodents. In the past, efforts have been made to solve this problem by providing one or more moats filled with water which surround the food dish because many insects are unable to enter the water to reach the food. Examples of such food dishes are shown in the reference cited separately. In general, these references disclose a number of moats filled with water or a liquid such as moats designed to prevent insects from reaching the food. However some insects can swim in water and cause problems. These problems can be prevented by filling a moat with a liquid such as a household cleaning fluid, instead of water which is fatal to insects and which is positioned so an insect has to enter the fluid to reach the food. However there is a danger that the pet may drink the liquid and get sick.
To prevent this an important object of this invention is to provide a pet food dish, which has means for preventing vermin from reaching the food.
Another object of this invention is to provide a combined pet food dish and water source which includes a container filled with a liquid poisonous to insects and which is positioned so insects have to enter the liquid to reach the food and positioned so that the pets can't reach the liquid in the container
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White Inez
White Lehi
Nelson Judith A.
Poon Peter M.
Rubinstein Julius
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