Insect habitat and feeder
OwnerWilliam A. Hulteen, IIIinventor
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Abstract
An insect storage, maintenance, dusting, and distribution device that dispenses living insects to caged animals. A Tower compartment is connected to a separate Dusting Chamber compartment with apertures on both compartments that may be aligned by rotating the Tower above the Dusting Chamber to form a passage for insects. The insects can move from the Tower to the Dusting Chamber which coats the insects with a nutritional dust. The insects are then allowed to move from the Dusting Chamber through a Feeder Tube into the animal(s)' habitat for their consumption by the animal.
Claims15
A device providing an insect habitat and feeder, the device comprising:
- a first compartment having a first aperture in a first surface thereof;
- a second compartment having a second aperture in a first surface thereof, the second compartment connected to the first compartment with the respective first surfaces in facing relationship;
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- a tube positioned for sliding axial movement in a third aperture in a second surface of the the second compartment, the tube having a first open end and a closed second end with an intermediate portion therebetween, the tube having an enlarged outer diameter at each end to limit the axial movement and a radial opening along the intermediate portion near the second end, the tube providing a passage from the second compartment to an exterior of the device;
- wherein aligning at least a portion of the first and second apertures sufficiently to allow an insect in one of the compartments to move to the other compartment defines an open condition of the device and moving the respective apertures out of alignment so that an insect is unable to move from one of the compartments to the other defines a closed condition of the device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.