Knock-down animal feeder
OwnerFrank W. Atchleyinventor
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Abstract
An animal feeder has a base member forming a feeding dish and an upright feed dispensing member from which new feed flows into the dish to replace that consumed by an animal. One of the members has detent projections which engage detent receiving grooves on the other member when the members are forced together. The construction enables easy and very rapid assembly without the use of tools or fastening devices such as screws, nails or the like. The feeders may be warehoused, transported and stocked in retail outlets in space and cost saving disassembled form without presenting purchasers with a difficult assembly task. The construction may include a moat around the dish portion for entrapping spillage and a configuration which inhibits displacement by activities of an animal.
Claims15
A knock-down animal feeder, including;
- a base member having a concavity in the upper surface thereof, the forward portion of said concavity being shaped to define an open feeding dish;
- a tubular feed dispensing member, comprising a continuous curved sidewall defining a tubular member having opposed, open, first and second ends;
- means for assembling said first end of said feed dispensing member to said base member in generally permanent fashion, including at least one detent receiving recess and at least one detent projection formed in complementary fashion in said members and disposed for mutual engagement to resist separation of said members, at least one of said members being formed of resilient material in the region of said detent recess and detent projection whereby said detent projection is engagable with said recess by forcing said members together;
- means for releasably closing said second end of said feed dispensing member to permit filling of said feed dispensing member without separating said feed dispensing member and said base member, including a lid removable secured to said second end of said closed curved sidewall;
- said first end of said closed curved sidewall being in open flow communication with the back portion of said concavity to deliver feed gravitally from said feed dispensing member to said open feeding dish.
The knock-down animal feeder of claim 15, wherein said open feeding dish includes a bottom panel, a side panel extending continuously from the edges of said bottom panel and upwardly therefrom to a continuous first rim, a moat panel having a generally U-shaped conformation and one edge extending continuously from said rim about said feeding dish and downwardly therefrom, the lower extent of said moat panel being disposed in generally coplanar relationship with said bottom panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.