# US 4,399,772 A · Animal feeder

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- Number: US 4,399,772 A
- Document ID: US4399772A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/346,815
- Filed: 1982-02-08
- Granted: 1983-08-23
- Earliest claimed: 1982-02-08
- Inventors: Rufus C. Salinas
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4399772A

## CPC

- A01K 5/0142: {with means for preventing other animals or insects from eating}
- A01K: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

## Abstract

The animal feeder is adapted to protect the feed from insects. It comprises a bowl which, in use, is filled with water. An arm has an upper portion, adapted to support a feed bucket, and a lower portion secured to the bowl. The arm's lower portion, in use, is submerged in the water body contained within the bowl, and the arm's upper portion extends upwardly from the surface of the water.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An animal and pet feeder, comprising:
a bottom bowl having a base for contacting a ground surface and upwardly-extending side walls to form a reservoir therein for containing a liquid such as drinking water;
a receptacle centrally disposed within said reservoir of said drinking bowl;
rod means having a bottom end sized for snug reception within said receptacle and an upper end extending upwardly and laterally from said receptacle by a predetermined horizontal distance;
support means extending laterally and outwardly from said upper end of said rod means;
an upper bowl having upwardly-extending side walls to form a reservoir therein for containing a solid such as food, said upper bowl being supported by said support means, whereby said liquid serves as a barrier against insects crawling across said bottom bowl into said upper bowl; and
said horizontal distance being such that most food particles that may be dropped outside of the side walls of said upper wall from the mouth of the animal, as it is eating the food from the upper bowl, will fall outside of the side walls of said bottom bowl, thereby reduce the water contamination in said bottom bowl which might tend to attract insects therein.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The feeder of claim 1, wherein said support means is an annular member.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The feeder of claim 1, wherein said rod means is L-shaped.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The feeder of claim 3, wherein said support means is an annular member.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The feeder of claim 1, wherein said rod means is T-shaped with a pair of diametrically-opposed support means extending outwardly and laterally from the upper end of the leg of said T-shaped rod means; and
an upper bowl supported by each one of said pair of support means.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The feeder of claim 5, wherein each one of said support means is an annular member.