초록 ▼

An improved animal feeder in the nature of a dish or bowl for feeding pets and which includes a pest barrier to preclude crawling pests from infestation of the food or liquid to be ingested by the animal. In one embodiment, the invention includes the use of a moat with liquid as a barrier to preclud

An improved animal feeder in the nature of a dish or bowl for feeding pets and which includes a pest barrier to preclude crawling pests from infestation of the food or liquid to be ingested by the animal. In one embodiment, the invention includes the use of a moat with liquid as a barrier to preclude traversal of crawling insects and, in another embodiment, the invention includes a cartridge or pad containing an insect barricade. In one embodiment, the barricade may adopt the form of a very tacky composition, which effectively entraps insects which come into contact with the composition. In another embodiment, the barricade may adopt the form of a insect repellant. Preferably, the insect repellant is incorporated directly into the entrapping composition to reduce evaporation thereof, and which also makes the device more effective. The animal feeder essentially includes an upper bowl with a lower level receptacle containing either the moat of liquid or the insect repellant.

대표청구항 ▼

[ Having thus described the invention, what I desire to claim and secure by letters patent is:] [1.] An animal feeder having a barrier means to preclude infestation by crawling insects of a food or beverage to be consumed by an animal:a) a food or beverage receiving bowl adapted to receive a food or

[ Having thus described the invention, what I desire to claim and secure by letters patent is:] [1.] An animal feeder having a barrier means to preclude infestation by crawling insects of a food or beverage to be consumed by an animal:a) a food or beverage receiving bowl adapted to receive a food or beverage to be consumed by an animal; andb) a replaceable cartridge-like insect barrier having an insect entrapping composition to form an insect barricade to preclude insect transversal to the bowl, and which insect barricade comprises an insect repellent in the entrapping composition and where the entrapping composition causes an insect to be permanently entrapped in the composition, said cartridge-like barrier being replaceable with a like barrier when the repellant and/or entrapping composition loses its effectiveness, said insect barrier being located so that an insect must cross the barrier to reach the food or beverage receiving bowl.