Pet feeding system with removable food holding container
AssigneePioneer Pet Products, LLC
InventorsJohn M. Lipscomb, Betsy M. Lipscomb, Qing He, Stanley L. Suring
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Abstract
A pet feeding system that includes a dish assembly configured to regulate intake of food by a pet, such as a cat. The dish assembly includes a housing and a cooperating food-dispensing receptacle that dispenses food into a food-receiving chamber within the housing permitting a pet to access food in the chamber through at least one feeder port that only permits a paw of the pet to reach within the housing to get some food, while preventing direct access to the food by the head or muzzle of the pet. A lip can be provided adjacent the feeder port that provides an obstacle to free withdrawal of the food out of the feeder port.
Claims23
A pet feeding system, comprising:
- a pet food dispenser comprising (a) a sidewall defining a food-receiving chamber having at least one opening formed in the sidewall defining a feeder port, and (b) a top portion overlying at least part of the food-receiving chamber and having a recessed portion comprising a pet food container receptacle;
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- a pet food container carried by the pet food dispenser, the pet food container having a container body with a tubular neck removably received in the pet food container receptacle of the pet food dispenser, the tubular neck having a pet food container discharge opening through which pet food passes from the pet food container into the food-receiving chamber of the pet food dispenser when the tubular neck is removably received in the pet food container receptacle of the pet food dispenser.
A pet feeding system, comprising:
- a pet food dispenser;
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- a pet food container carried by the pet food dispenser, the pet food container having a pet food container discharge opening;
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- wherein the pet food dispenser comprises an annular housing having a recessed receptacle formed in a top portion of the annular housing that defines a pet food container seat in which a portion of the pet food container having the pet food container discharge opening is removably received;
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- wherein the pet food dispenser housing is generally dome shaped and wherein the pet food container seat is comprised of a recess generally centrally formed in a top portion of the pet food dispenser housing.
A pet feeding system, comprising:
- a pet food container having a food discharge opening formed therein;
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- a pet food dispenser comprised of a housing defining a food receiving chamber having at least one opening formed therein defining a feeder port providing pet access to pet food in the food receiving chamber, the housing having a top portion with a receptacle in which the pet food container is removably received disposing the food discharge opening of the pet food container in communication with the food receiving chamber;
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- wherein the pet food dispenser housing has a plurality of spaced apart feeder port openings formed therein that are each outwardly disposed of the food discharge opening formed in the pet food container.
A pet feeding system, comprising:
- a pet food container having a tubular neck with a food discharge opening formed therein;
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- a pet food dispenser comprised of a food receiving chamber underlying the pet food container, the food receiving chamber defined by a housing having (a) a receptacle formed in the housing in which the tubular neck of the pet food container is received disposing the food discharge opening of the pet food container in communication with the food receiving chamber of the pet food dispenser, and (b) a plurality of spaced apart feeder port openings formed in the housing that are each disposed below the food discharge opening of the pet food container received in the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.