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An automatic dog or cat feeder has a plurality of pairs of water and food bowls in a horizontally rotative tray, and a cover assembly for the rotative tray and having a front opening exposing only one pair at a time of the food and water bowls. The cover assembly contains a clock controlled drive me

An automatic dog or cat feeder has a plurality of pairs of water and food bowls in a horizontally rotative tray, and a cover assembly for the rotative tray and having a front opening exposing only one pair at a time of the food and water bowls. The cover assembly contains a clock controlled drive mechanism for stepwisely turning the rotative tray member so that one pair of its pre-filled food and water bowls is exposed at the cover assembly front opening during each successive day during the automatic feeding of a house pet.

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An automatic dog or cat feeder comprising, in combination, a rotative tray member having a plurality of pairs of water and food bowls, said bowl pairs being equidistantly spaced about a peripheral marginal portion of said tray member, a tray member cover plate seatable upon said rotative tray member

An automatic dog or cat feeder comprising, in combination, a rotative tray member having a plurality of pairs of water and food bowls, said bowl pairs being equidistantly spaced about a peripheral marginal portion of said tray member, a tray member cover plate seatable upon said rotative tray member and having an opening serving to expose, one pair at a time, of said bowl pairs, and means for periodically rotating said rotative tray member with respect to said tray member cover plate so that the next rotatively successive pair of food and water bowls is brought into access position beneath said tray member cover plate opening, said means for periodically rotating said tray member comprising a substantially flat base member having an upstanding journal post, said tray member having a central hub portion recessed at its underside to removably seat upon said journal post for rotation with respect thereto, a cover assembly hingeably secured to said base member for movement between covering and uncovering positions with respect to said tray member, said tray member cover plate being supported within said cover assembly so as to normally rest flat against upper surface portions of said tray member bowl pairs when said cover assembly is in its covering relation with respect to said tray member.