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US 8,997,689 B2Granted
Treat dispenser
AssigneeDoskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.
InventorPeter Ragonetti
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Abstract
One embodiment of a treat dispenser for an animal comprises a first and second chamber separated at a junction of the chambers by a dividing wall, wherein each chamber is formed from a skeletal framework, wherein the skeletal framework of the first chamber is substantially open and the skeletal framework of the second chamber is substantially closed, and further comprising a sound device disposed within the second chamber.
Claims11
A treat dispenser for an animal and comprising:
- a body formed at least in part of a resilient material and comprising a first wall portion, a second wall portion, and a dividing wall situated generally between the first and second wall portions, the body having faulted therein a first chamber disposed generally between the first wall portion and the dividing wall, the body further having formed therein a second chamber disposed generally between the second wall portion and the dividing wall;
- the first wall portion having formed therein at least a first opening that is structured to be resiliently deformable and to receive at least a first animal foodstuff therethrough, the first chamber being structured to receive the at least first foodstuff therein;
- at least a portion of at least one of the second wall portion and the dividing wall being structured to be deformable to cause a deformation of the second chamber;
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- a sound device that is structured to output a sound responsive to the deformation of the second chamber, the sound being audible to at least one of a human and an animal.
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