Combined animal weaning, watering and feeding dishes
OwnerVirginia Sunner Evansinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A combined animal weaning, watering and feeding dish having an outer dish with a flat bottom and vertically upstanding rim and an inner dish having an annular U-shaped trough with a central upstanding member acting as a guide for an animal's face and mouth into the food in the trough and discouraging walking or stepping into the food, said inner dish being removable from the outer dish and inverted to form a watering dish.
Claims4
A combined weaning, watering and feeding dish for puppies and like animals, comprising an outer dish member having a bottom and a generally vertically upstanding rim fixed thereto, an inner dish member removably spaced from the outer dish having an annular generally U-shaped trough with an outer sidewall having an outer edge engaging the top of the upstanding rim of the outer dish member to support it centrally therein in a first position adapted to contain a temperature stabilizing means in the area between said inner and outer dishes, and a central upstanding generally cylindrical member in the center of the annulus of said inner dish member spaced from said outer sidewall by a bottom trough surface and extending above the outer edge of said inner dish, said cylindrical member having a flat top closure adapted to support the inner dish in an inverted second position removed from the outer dish member whereby the bottom trough surface of said inner dish acts as an ear protective water dish by diverting a dog's ears away from the cylindrical member in said inverted position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.