Wearable bi-directional water dispensing device for a pet
OwnerScott Joel Steele, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An article that is wearable by a pet that is fitted to the pet in a secure manner including a bladder bag that is adapted to hold a fluid (e.g., water) and including a series of flexible tubing extending from the bladder bag through a series of valves and a pump and to a fluid dispensing receptacle connected to the flexible tubing. Selectively setting the valves to a first position allows for fluid to be pumped from the bladder bag to the fluid dispensing receptacle, and setting the valve to a second position allows for any remaining fluid to be pumped from the fluid dispensing receptable back to the bladder bag.
Claims18
A fluid pumping system adapted to be worn by an animal via a harness, the system comprising:
- a bladder bag supported by the harness and adapted to be filled with a fluid;
- a valving system supported by the harness and including:
- a first reversable one-way valve;
- a pump;
- a second reversable one-way valve;
- a first flexible tubing connected at one end to the bladder bag and at another end to a first end of said valving system;
- a second flexible tubing connected at one end to a second end of said valving system and at another end to a bowl affixed to the second flexible tubing;
- wherein when said pump is actuated, fluid flows from the bladder bag through said valving system and to said fluid dispensing receptacle.
A method of transferring a fluid in a fluid transfer system maintained in a harness attached to an animal and supporting a bladder bag filled with the fluid comprising the steps of:
- detaching a bowl from the harness, the fluid dispensing receptacle connected to a valving system via a second flexible tubing;
- switching a first one-way valve associated with the valving system to a first position;
- switching a second one-way valve associated with the valving system to a first position;
- actuating a pump to cause fluid to transfer from the bladder bag through a first flexible tubing and through the first and second one-way valves via and into the bowl;
- switching the first one-way valve to a second position;
- switching the second one-way valve to a second position;
- and
- actuating the pump to cause fluid to transfer from the bowl into the bladder bag.
A method of transferring a fluid in a fluid transfer system maintained in a harness attached to an animal and supporting a bladder bag filled with the fluid comprising the steps of:
- detaching a bowl from the harness, the bowl connected to a valving system via a second flexible tubing;
- actuating a first section of a pump to cause fluid to transfer from the bladder bag through a first flexible tubing, through a first and second one-way valve, through the second flexible tubing, and into the bowl;
- and
- actuating a second section of the pump to cause fluid to transfer from the bowl through a fourth flexible tubing, through a third and fourth one-way valve, through a third flexible tubing, and into the bladder bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.