Animal feeder
AssigneeWicked Feeder Solutions, LLC
InventorsBobby Allen Freeman, Robert Scott McCormick
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Abstract
An animal feeder includes: a tray assembly defining at least one sloped feed dish; a reservoir communicating with the tray assembly, the reservoir having a fill opening, wherein the reservoir is defined by a pair of spaced-apart end plates interconnected by a pair of spaced-apart side panels, wherein: the end plates have tabs which are received in slots of the side panels; and the side panels have tabs which are received in slots of the tray assembly; dispensing openings formed in a wall of the reservoir configured to permit granular animal feed to flow by gravity from the reservoir into the at least one sloped feed dish; and wherein each of the dispensing openings is partially blocked by at least one finger formed in the wall of the reservoir.
Claims14
An animal feeder, comprising:
- a tray assembly defining at least one sloped feed dish;
- a reservoir communicating with the tray assembly, the reservoir having a fill opening, wherein the reservoir is defined by a pair of spaced-apart end plates interconnected by a pair of spaced-apart side panels, wherein:
- the end plates have tabs which are received in slots of the side panels;
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- the side panels have tabs which are received in slots of the tray assembly;
- dispensing openings formed in a wall of the reservoir configured to permit granular animal feed to flow by gravity from the reservoir into the at least one sloped feed dish;
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- wherein each of the dispensing openings is partially blocked by at least one finger formed in the wall of the reservoir.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.