Pest Barricaded animal feeder
OwnerRobert T. Walkerinventor
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Abstract
An improved animal feeder in the nature of a dish or bowl for feeding pets and which includes a pest barrier to preclude crawling pests from infestation of the food or liquid to be ingested by the animal. In one embodiment, the invention includes the use of a moat with liquid as a barrier to preclude traversal of crawling insects and, in another embodiment, the invention includes a cartridge or pad containing an insect repellant. The animal feeder essentially includes an upper bowl with a lower level receptacle containing either the moat of liquid or the insect repellant.
Claims9
An animal feeder having a barrier means to preclude infestation by crawling insects of a food or beverage to be consumed by an animal:
- a) a food or beverage receiving bowl adapted to receive a food or beverage to be consumed by an animal;
- b) an insect barrier receptacle located between said bowl and a ground surface and which must be crossed by a crawling insert to reach the bowl having the food or beverage;
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- c) a cavity in said insect barrier receptacle to receive an insect barricade to preclude insect transversal to the bowl, and which insect barricade comprises a chemical insect repellent and an insect entrapping composition which causes the insect to be permanently entrapped in the composition, said repellant being impregnated in the composition such that the composition holds the repellent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.