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US 11,363,798 B2Granted
Position control of pet bowl
AssigneePet Mate Limited
InventorJeremy Oates
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Abstract
An automatic pet feeder, comprising a bowl with a plurality of compartments, a cover and a sensor, the bowl being rotated relative to the cover to sequentially expose each the compartments, the bowl having location regions detectable by the sensor, each location region having a first edge and a second edge, the motor being driven at a first speed until the first edge is detected, and the motor being driven at a second, slower speed until the second edge is detected, stopping the motor.
Claims6
An automatic pet feeder comprising:
- a base including a bowl with a plurality of compartments;
- a cover having a top and an integral sidewall depending from the top to cover the bowl;
- the sidewall having a bottom edge, and being provided with at least one through aperture above the bottom edge of the sidewall;
- the base having at least one latch that co-operates with the at least one through aperture of the sidewall, the at least one latch having a lower lip that catches against a lower edge of the at least one through aperture when the cover is in a first position, preventing removal of the cover;
- the top of the cover being depressible to a second position in which the lower edge of the at least one through aperture in the sidewall is lowered, so that the lower lip of the at least one latch is clear of the lower edge of the at least one through aperture;
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- the at least one latch being capable of being pressed inwardly of the through aperture when the cover is in the second position;
- whereby the cover can be removed from the base by first depressing the top of the cover and then pressing the at least one latch inwardly of the sidewall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.