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US 5,701,841 AGranted
Bird feeder
OwnerVictor Fasinoinventor
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Abstract
A cylindrical-body bird feeder has an open bottom with a pair of cut-outs on opposite sides of the bottom. Slits, extending from the cut-outs latchingly receive a flexible floor for the body. The floor is only latchingly secured in the bottom, to facilitate cleaning of the feeder. In one embodiment of the feeder, the floor is latchable in either one of two pairs of slits, to accommodate the feeding of small seeds, or the feeding of large seeds, via window apertures, or via open troughs below the windows.
Claims11
A bird feeder, comprising:
- a body;
- wherein
- said body has wall means therein cooperative with said body for forming a feed chamber within said body;
- and
- floor means for forming a bottom of said feed chamber;
- wherein
- said floor means is only latchingly engaged with said body, and unlatchingly removable from said body;
- said body has openings formed therein on opposite sides thereof;
- said wall means comprises walls generally paralleling, and recessed from, said openings;
- said walls have lowermost terminations;
- lowermost portions of said openings are cooperative with said terminations for forming voids for providing external access into said body and said feed chamber;
- said body further has (a) an open base, and (b) cut-outs formed on opposite sides thereof at said base;
- said body also has first slots, communicating with said cut-outs and extending laterally from sides of said cut-outs, in a given horizontal plane;
- said body additionally has second slots, communicating with said cut-outs and extending laterally from sides of said cut-outs, in a differing horizontal plane;
- said floor means comprises a sheet of flexible material having oppositely-extending tabs;
- and
- in a first mode of operation, first portions of said tabs are engaged with said slots in said given horizontal plane, and second portions of said tabs project outwardly from said cut-outs;
- and
- in a second mode of operation, first portions of said tabs are engaged with said slots in said differing horizontal plane, and second portions of said tabs project outwardly from said cut-outs.
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A bird feeder, comprising:
- a body;
- wherein
- said body has wall means therein cooperative with said body for forming a feed-chamber within said body;
- and
- floor means for forming a bottom of said feed chamber;
- wherein
- said floor means is only latchingly engaged with said body, and unlatchingly removable from said body;
- wherein
- said body further has (a) an open base, and (b) cut-outs formed on opposite sides thereof at said base;
- said body also has slots communicating with said cut-outs and extending laterally from sides of said cut-outs, in a given horizontal plane;
- said floor means comprises a sheet of flexible material having oppositely-extending tabs;
- and
- first portions of said tabs are engaged with said slots, and second portions of said tabs project outwardly from said cut-outs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.