Wildlife feeder
AssigneeKaspar Wire Works, Inc.
InventorsJack Wooley, Patrick Benes, Linda G. Armstrong
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Abstract
A wildlife feeder is provided, including a wildlife feeder that may be used for squirrels. The wildlife feeder includes a frame and an axle. The axle is rotatably attached to the frame and has a cage wheel and a feed dispensing wheel attached thereto, such that rotation of the cage wheel such as will occur when an animal is running therein, will cause rotation of the feed wheel. The feed wheel is adjacent a container having a container opening, which container contains a multiplicity of food particles gravity fed to the opening. As the feed wheel, which has cutouts therein, rotates, it dispenses particular wildlife feed therefrom.
Claims22
An animal feeder for dispensing particulate feed comprising:
- a frame;
- a fixed axle rotatably mounted to the frame;
- a feed container having a container base, the feed container for engagement with the frame, the container base with a feed dispensing opening;
- a cage wheel mounted to the axle;
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- a feed wheel mounted to the axle and adjacent the feed dispensing opening, the feed
- wheel receives solid, particulate food through the feed dispensing opening in the container base when the cage wheel is rotated by animals running therein;
- wherein the feed wheel includes a multiplicity of cutouts for the receipt of feed thereunto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.