# US 10,945,413 B2 · Randomly bouncing toy ball for pets such as dogs and production method

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- Number: US 10,945,413 B2
- Document ID: US10945413B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/076,141
- Filed: 2016-05-03
- Published: 2019-01-24
- Granted: 2021-03-16
- Earliest claimed: 2016-02-08
- Assignees: 201 Oficial S.A. De C.V.
- Applicants: 201 Oficial S.A. De C.V.
- Inventors: Rodrigo Ledesma Ballesteros
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10945413B2

## CPC

- A01K 15/025: {Toys specially adapted for animals}
- A01K 5/0114: {Pet food dispensers; Pet food trays (time-controlled A01K5/0291)}
- A63B 39/00: Hollow non-inflatable balls {, i.e. having no valves (rigid balls A63B37/00)}
- A63B 43/00: Balls with special arrangements
- A63B 43/002: {with special configuration, e.g. non-spherical (discs for throwing A63B65/10)}
- A63B 43/04: with an eccentric centre of gravity; with mechanism for changing the centre of gravity (solid balls A63B37/10)
- A63B 69/0053: {Apparatus generating random stimulus signals for reaction-time training involving a substantial physical effort}
- A63B 2039/003: {substantially hollow and pressureless}
- A63B 2208/14: specially adapted for animals
- A63B 2209/00: Characteristics of used materials
- A63B 2225/687: for others, e.g. keys, wallets, books
- A01K: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
- A63B: APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

## Abstract

The present invention relates to a hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets formed by a single piece, preferably made from an elastic material that allows the erratic movement during a rotation or rebound displacement due to its interior design. The form and dimensions and dimensions of the ball allows the storage of food in its interior, introducing and dosing such food through openings or hollows placed in the external part of the ball. The ball is structurally formed in its interior by at least two cylindrical sections with continuing radially arched thickness with a sequential projection of horizontally cylindrical truncated steps.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets that allows the erratic movement during a rotation or rebound displacement due to its interior design that comprises:
a. A hollow, cavity or alveolar lodging
b. At least two openings or hollows placed in the external part of the ball which interconnects with the hollow cavity or alveolar lodging, wherein the hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets is formed by a single spherical piece, and wherein the form and dimensions of the hollow, cavity or alveolar lodging is structurally arranged inside by at least two continuous radially arched thick cylindrical sections with a sequential projection of horizontally cylindrical steps, each step being a radial section, increasing its circular periphery perpendicularly to such steps, and wherein one of the openings or hollows is an opening or minor hollow that has a proportion between 5% and 15% and the other one of the openings or hollows is an opening or major hollow that has a proportion between 15% and 35% relative to the diameter of the hollowed ball.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly with claim 1, wherein food is stored in the hollow, cavity or alveolar lodging.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly to claim 2, wherein the food is selected from the group of croquettes, biscuits and treats.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly to claim 1, wherein one of the openings or hollows has a design and sufficient dimensions for the entrance of air as mean for ventilation inside the ball and the other opening has a design and sufficient dimensions to introduce dose and extract food.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly to claim 1, wherein the diameter of the hollowed ball is between 40 and 150 millimeters.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly to claim 1, wherein the dimensions of the cylindric sections with a continuing radially arched thickness with a sequential projection of horizontally cylindrical truncated steps that constitutes the hollow, cavity or alveolar lodging is between 25% and 65% relative to the diameter of the spherical hollowed ball.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly to claim 1, wherein the dimensions of the cylindric sections with a continuing radially arched thickness with a sequential projection of horizontally cylindrical truncated steps that constitutes the hollow, cavity or alveolar lodging is between 25% and 65% relative to the diameter of the spherical hollowed ball.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The hollowed ball with an erratic movement for pets accordingly to claim 1, wherein the single spherical piece is formed from an elastic material.