Timer controlled pet feeder

Details Timer controlled pet feeder Timer controlled pet feeder

1994-06-30

1996-01-16

Swiatek, Robert P.

Animal husbandry

Feeding device

Timer-controlled

119 561, A01K 502

Patent

active

054839238

ABSTRACT:
A timer controlled pet feeder for automatically dispensing a predetermined amount of pet food at a given time comprising a container having an openable main reservoir formed therein and adapted for holding several meals of pet food connected to a feeding reservoir formed therebelow and adapted for holding a meal of food with the feeding reservoir having an upwardly extended entrance for communicating with the main reservoir and a downwardly extended exit for providing communication therefrom; a dispensing mechanism having a retracted orientation for simultaneously closing the exit of the feeding reservoir and opening the entrance of the feeding reservoir and an extended orientation for simultaneously opening the exit of the feeding reservoir and closing the entrance of the feeding reservoir; an actuator mechanism for placing the dispensing mechanism in the extended orientation when activated and the retracted orientation when de-activated; and a timer mechanism for maintaining a current time and a plurality of triggerable time settings keyed to the current time and having one orientation for activating the actuator mechanism when a time setting is triggered and another orientation for de-activating the actuator mechanism when a time setting is not triggered.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2242576 (1941-05-01), Feilders
patent: 3578209 (1971-05-01), Fraser
patent: 4955510 (1990-09-01), Newnan
patent: 5299529 (1994-04-01), Ramirez

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