Disposable insert containing pet dish apparatus
OwnerKaren M. Browninventor
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Abstract
A pet dish apparatus includes a dish-shaped base unit which has a first dish lock portion in the form of an annular groove on an inside surface of the dish-shaped base unit and includes a dish member received in the dish-shaped base unit. The dish member includes a second dish lock portion in the form of an annular tongue on the outside surface of the dish member which is engageable with the first dish lock portion annular groove. The dish member is received in the dish-shaped base unit in a nesting manner. An annular peripheral top ring extends outward from a dish wall of the dish member. Two dish-shaped base units can be connected together with an annular peripheral top ring in a form of a figure-eight.
Claims8
A pet dish apparatus, comprising:
- a dish-shaped base unit which includes a first dish lock portion in a form of an annular groove located on an inside surface of said dish-shaped base unit;
- a dish member received in said dish-shaped base unit, wherein said dish member includes a second dish lock portion in a form of an annular tongue located on an outside surface of said dish member that fits into said groove;
- a material reception region defined by a dish floor and a annular dish wall which extends upward from said dish floor;
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- an annular peripheral top ring which extends outward from said dish wall.
A pet dish apparatus, comprising:
- a dish-shaped base unit which includes a first dish lock portion in a form of an annular groove located on an inside surface of said dish-shaped base unit;
- a removable dish member received in said dish-shaped base unit, wherein said dish member includes a second dish lock portion in a form of an annular tongue located on an outside surface of said dish member that fits into side annular groove, wherein said dish wall includes a plurality of inwardly extending hollow hemispherical dish wall bulge portion, wherein each dish wall bulge portion includes an inner convex dish wall bulge surface and an outer concave dish wall bulge surface, and wherein said dish-shaped base unit includes a plurality of inner convex base unit wall bulges when fit into said outer concave dish wall bulge surfaces when said dish-shaped base unit receives said dish member;
- a material reception region defined by a dish floor and a annular dish wall which extends upward from said dish floor;
- an annular peripheral top ring which extends outward from said dish wall, said apparatus further including a removable lid for fitting tightly onto said top ring of said dish member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.