Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090278366 | Uprightly Storable Fecal Matter Scooper - A fecal matter scooper having a manipulable handle attached to an elongate handle extension from which a pair of opposable scoop jaws extend that define a fecal matter holding scoop bucket when disposed in a closed position and which define a pedestal or base upon which the scooper can be stored in an uprightly standing position when the jaws are disposed in an open pedestal position. When stored uprightly, the handle can be grasped to pick up and maneuver the scooper without the user having to bend over. A biasing arrangement is disposed in operable cooperation with at least one jaw for urging at least one of the jaws toward such an open pedestal position. In a method of operation, at least one of the jaws is perforate enabling sifting unspoiled litter back into a litter box when removing clumped fecal matter or urine from the litter box. | 11-12-2009 |
20100077961 | Pet Furniture - Pet furniture embodiments including one unit that is a bunk when in one orientation and which can be disposed in another orientation forming a nestable enclosure and another unit that includes a maze that can be of multi-level or multi-tiered construction. Assemblies and methods are disclosed for tool-less assembly including one unit utilizing a first tool-less latching arrangement for assembling walls and a second tool-less latching arrangement for assembling a platform upon which a pet can perch, rest or lay to walls when assembled and another unit with hingedly connected walls that include a pair of opposed walls formed by wall sections also hingedly joined enabling the walls to be unfolded from a compact stack during assembly to form a platform-supporting frame that can include one or more integrally formed passages that permit a pet to explore underneath the platform. | 04-01-2010 |
20100077963 | Pet Feeding Dish and System - A pet feeding system is disclosed that includes a dish configured to regulate intake of food by a pet, such as a cat. The dish has a housing in cooperation with a food-dispensing receptacle that dispense food into a food-receiving chamber within the housing permitting a pet to access food in the chamber through at least one food access port that only permits part of the pet to reach within the housing to get some food. The food-dispensing receptacle can be a bowl that can be integrally formed as part of the housing and can also be a food-holding container that seats in the bowl. A cap is provided that can cover food in the bowl or container preventing a pet from accessing the food. | 04-01-2010 |
20100095899 | DISPOSABLE FOLD-UP SIFTING ANIMAL LITTER FILTERING PAN - A disposable litter pan that is made of a flexible material, preferably biodegradable non-plastic material, such as thermally pressed cardboard or other paper fiber material treated with an aqueous coating that inhibits degradation of the pan in the presence of fluids. The pan is a generally self-supporting pan structure having two end walls, two sidewalls, and a floor; wherein the floor having several perforations, openings, or orifices sized to allow unused cat litter to be sifted into a retaining pan underneath that can be of the same or imperforate construction. The litter pan folds, allowing the sidewalls to engage in a manner that does not allow litter or excrement to escape. The pan can be retained in the folded condition by an integral latching arrangement that also can serve as a handle. | 04-22-2010 |
20100275852 | PET FOOD DISH - An animal feeding dish having a relatively shallow-food holding bowl that is upraised from the floor by a platform or pedestal so as to minimize whisker contact of an animal eating from the dish. The platform or pedestal can include spaced apart outwardly extending supports that shield interiorly disposed legs carried thereby from food dropped during eating while also preventing tipping of the dish. Such a bowl can be a spherical section having an advantageously large radius of curvature, including relative to bowl width or diameter, which produces a desirably shallow depth bowl that prevents whisker contact. The bottom most portion of the bowl is spaced suitably high relative to overall dish height to more optimally position the mouth of the animal during feeding to further minimize whisker contact. | 11-04-2010 |
20100300366 | Pet Fountain - A pet fountain having a housing of snap together construction formed of a base and cover. The base includes a basin in which an integrally formed filter-holding divider is disposed that separates the basin into a return sump and pumping chamber. The cover includes a water holding bowl, an inlet and a drain overlying the return sump that encloses a pump that provides fluid to the bowl via inlet when attached to the base. The cover includes a downwardly extending tube that fluidly registers with a discharge of the pump when attached to the base. In a preferred embodiment, the cover has upper and lower bowls connected by a spillway that conveys overflow from the upper bowl to the lower bowl where it is return via drain to the return sump. The cover can be configured to mate with the housing to enclose the entire basin, pump, and filter. | 12-02-2010 |
20110067638 | Pet Fountain Assembly - A pet drinking fountain assembly having a pump forming part of a fountain mounting arrangement that includes a lift tube coupling a cover to the pump coupled to a lower basin by a mount. The mount and lift tube attenuate pump noise and vibration by providing isolation from the basin and cover and can function as dampeners. In a preferred embodiment the pump is part of a pump module that includes a module housing to which the pump is attached by another noise-attenuating mount. Each mount is formed by one or more suction cups with the cups and lift tube made of vibration dampening material, such as a resilient vibration dampening or isolating material that can be an elastomeric material. The module includes a lift tube coupling discharge that registers in fluid flow communication with a pump outlet and can include a ring or bushing therebetween providing additional noise attenuation. | 03-24-2011 |
20110255293 | Moisture Release Valve For An Outdoor Light Fixture - A moisture release valve for an outdoor light including a valve body having a stem received in a valve guide and having a head seating with a valve seat integrally formed of part of a sidewall of a light casing of the light fixture. Valve body is gravity displaced between a closed position and an open position depending upon light fixture orientation and can include a counterweight carried by its stem interiorly disposed within the fixture helping to cause displacement of the valve body toward the desired open or closed position in response to a change in light fixture orientation. Valve body can be a rivet, such as a split rivet, and the counterweight can be a washer, such as an annular washer, having an opening generally in registry with the valve guide permitting fluid within the fixture to drain from the fixture when the valve is open. | 10-20-2011 |
20110259273 | Pet Fountain Assembly - A pet fountain having a basin and a cover overlying at least part of the basin and is supported by a sidewall of the basin and a pump disposed therebetween. The basin and cover have sidewall sections that converge to form a V-shaped locator arrangement that positions a coupling tube in communication with drinking bowl inlet of the cover so it is substantially coaxial with an outlet of the pump or pump module to telescopically engage the outlet. The basin can have an upraised shelf that holds a cord conduit providing a cord routing recess underneath. The shelf is disposed adjacent the V-shaped locator arrangement between an apex of the V-shaped locator arrangement and the pump or pump module minimizing the length of the cord run to the pump. In one embodiment, the V-shaped locator arrangement is formed by at least the basin having a raindrop or teardrop shape. | 10-27-2011 |
20110266817 | Sifting Scoop - A sifting scoop for removing pet waste from litter in a litter box having a handle carrying a sifting cup having a mouth wider than a downstream pet waste retaining pocket formed by the cup. The handle overlies the sifting cup providing a waste shield. The handle includes a grip attached by a bridge to the cup that provides a hand guard and scoop hanger with the grip serving as a when the scoop is stood uprightly on a pedestal formed by a cup endwall. The cup has a first sifting portion formed in a litter-engaging surface on the side opposite the handle with the sifting portion formed by a plurality of elongate slots that are wavy or S-shaped extending longitudinally in the direction of scooping. The cup has a second sifting portion having slots in the end wall inline with litter being scooped. | 11-03-2011 |
20110277697 | Animal Mobile Entertainment Device - An animal mobile that includes a mount from which a boom cantilevers carrying an animal plaything with the mobile defining a spring mass system having a plurality of springs and masses that cause the plaything to unpredictably move during animal interaction. The mount is configured for door mounting having a plurality of straps that wrap around respective door knobs. The mount includes a ball and socket boom coupling arrangement that defines a spring and enables adjustable boom attachment. A drive is operated to rotate the mobile in one direction storing potential energy in at least one mobile suspension line defining another spring with the energy being released rotating the mobile in an opposite direction when the drive is caused. System feedback from interaction of the plaything by an animal, e.g., cat, causes the plaything to dance and leap in a manner simulating live prey enticing further animal interaction. | 11-17-2011 |
20120025549 | Sifting Pet Waste Scoop - A pet waste scoop, e.g., cat litter scoop, having a relatively large mouth opening includes body having an open end opposite a closed end and defining an interior therebetween for receiving pet waste for easy disposal thereof. A handle is integrally formed with the body and extends downwardly toward the closed end a predetermined distance such that the user may easily grasp the handle for manipulating the pet waste scoop while maintaining his or her hand a safe distance from the pet waste to be scooped. A plurality of elongate slot-shaped apertures that can be curvilinear are formed within a front surface opposite the handle for sifting the litter scooped with the pet waste scoop. The apertures are defined by a number of rounded elongate sifting bars that also can be of curvilinear construction and configured to prevent pet waste and/or litter build up within the apertures. | 02-02-2012 |
20120137979 | Pet Fountain With Basin-Straddling Cover - A pet fountain assembly that includes a cover with a drinking bowl formed therein that straddles a sidewall of a basin that can be user-provided enclosing a pump within a pumping chamber defined therebetween. The cover has a downwardly extending sidewall divided by openings that can be generally U-shaped or V-shaped into a plurality of supports on which the cover. In a preferred embodiment, one of the supports is disposed outboard the basin sidewall resting on the ground and another one of the supports is disposed inboard the basin sidewall resting on a bottom of the basin providing a water passage enabling water from the basin to reach the pump. The inboard support can provide an overflow spillway as well as define a shroud disposed between the pump and water in a lower drinking bowl of the basin. The basin can include an outwardly offset seat that locates the pump. | 06-07-2012 |
20120325157 | Pet Feeding Dish And System - 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. | 12-27-2012 |
20130036981 | Animal Water Toy And Fountain - An animal water toy that includes one or more playthings carried by flowing water that entices an animal, such as a cat, into interaction therewith. Playthings can be received in a container having water drinkable by the animal that is propelled by a pump into flowing and carrying the playthings. A portion can be upraised above the water providing an animal perch and/or flow director imparting flow deviations causing unpredictable plaything movement helping enhance animal interaction. A conveyance device can be provided conveying playthings relative to the flow. A pet watering device, e.g., fountain, can include an animal toy constructed in accordance with the present invention and a conveyance device lifting playthings from one level of the watering device to another. In one embodiment, playthings are animal attractant objects that can be buoyant and configured to attract an animal, such as by its color, graphics, indicia, and/or shape. | 02-14-2013 |
20130087102 | Pet Fountain Assembly - A pet fountain that presents circulating water that is continuously filtered and pumped through the fountain. The fountain includes a basin that has a sidewall extending upwardly from a bottom wall (or floor) and a cover. A pump assembly is housed between the basin and cover, and circulates water through the pet fountain by pumping the water from the basin to an upper drinking bowl of the cover. The water spills out of the upper drinking back to the basin. An opening is provided between the cover and the basin which allows a pet to drink directly from the basin in addition to the upper drinking bowl of the cover. | 04-11-2013 |
20130133903 | Hole Digging Tiller Or Cultivator - A hole digger having an anchor inserted into the ground so tines rotate in place discharging loose material from a hole being dug. The anchor includes an elongate stake carried by the transmission carrying the tines that is inserted to a depth greater than tine depth limiting tine travel to an arc about the stake. The digger can include one or more digger tines of increased axial surface area provided by an axial deflector extending radially along part of a tine facing toward the outer edge of the hole increasing the volume discharged from the hole during each tine rotation. Such a digger can be produced by modifying a garden tiller or cultivator to include an anchor mounted to its transmission and can further include one or more digger tines if desired. The anchor and deflectors can form a kit for retrofitting a tiller or cultivator into a hole digger. | 05-30-2013 |
20130174790 | Recirculating Pet Fountain - A recirculating pet fountain that includes a basin, pump and discharge where water pumped out the discharge is either received by an overflow tube and/or conveyed by a bridge toward water in the basin including into the tube. The bridge can include a channel and be configured so at least some discharged water clings to its underside via surface tension as water flows toward the basin. The tube has a mouth which can receive water from the bridge that can be free falling water that overflows from the tube into the basin. The tube can include one or more discharge ports that can include flow directors that help direct flow of water received in the tube that overflows out the ports. The tube can be length extensible and can include a flow adjuster that can increase effective tube length and can block one or more ports. | 07-11-2013 |
20130180458 | Pet Fountain - A pet fountain having a housing of snap together construction formed of a base and cover. The base includes a basin in which an integrally formed filter-holding divider is disposed that separates the basin into a return sump and pumping chamber. The cover includes a water holding bowl, an inlet and a drain overlying the return sump that encloses a pump that provides fluid to the bowl via inlet when attached to the base. The cover includes a downwardly extending tube that fluidly registers with a discharge of the pump when attached to the base. In a preferred embodiment, the cover has upper and lower bowls connected by a spillway that conveys overflow from the upper bowl to the lower bowl where it is return via drain to the return sump. The cover can be configured to mate with the housing to enclose the entire basin, pump, and filter. | 07-18-2013 |
20130199454 | RECIRCULATING PET FOUNTAIN - A recirculating pet fountain that includes a basin defining a lower drinking bowl, pump and discharge where water pumped out the discharge is delivered to an upper drinking bowl that conveys the water to either an overflow tube and/or a bridge toward water in the lower drinking bowl including into the tube. The bridge can include a channel and be configured so at least some discharged water clings to its underside via surface tension as water flows toward the basin. The tube has a mouth which can receive water from the bridge that can be free falling water that overflows from the tube into the basin. The tube can include one or more discharge ports that can include flow directors that help direct flow of water received in the tube that overflows out the ports. The tube can be length extensible and can include a flow adjuster that can increase effective tube length and can block one or more ports. | 08-08-2013 |
20130206079 | Cat Scratcher With Encapsulated Grit Layer - A cat scratcher that includes encapsulated cat claw abrading grit layers that can dull claws of a cat using the cat scratcher and which are interleaved throughout a scratching block of the cat scratcher. The encapsulated grit layer may define a self-contained unit in which grit particles are encapsulated between a pair of backing sheets so that substantially none of the grit particles are exposed or visible. The encapsulated grit layer may include a sandpaper strip that has a sandpaper backing sheet and grit particles that are bonded to the sandpaper backing sheet and define a gritty surface of the sandpaper strip that faces away from the sandpaper backing sheet. A seal sheet may engage the gritty surface of the sandpaper strip so that the gritty particles are wholly sandwiched and sealed between the sandpaper backing and seal sheets. | 08-15-2013 |
20130228129 | PET FOUNTAIN ASSEMBLY WITH CORD CONDUIT AND DISCONNECTABLE POWER CORD - A pet drinking fountain assembly having a pump forming part of a fountain mounting arrangement that includes a lift tube coupling a cover to the pump coupled to a lower basin by a mount. The mount and lift tube attenuate pump noise and vibration by providing isolation from the basin and cover and can function as dampeners. In a preferred embodiment the pump is part of a pump module that includes a module housing to which the pump is attached by another noise-attenuating mount. Each mount is formed by one or more suction cups with the cups and lift tube made of vibration dampening material, such as a resilient vibration dampening or isolating material that can be an elastomeric material. The module includes a lift tube coupling discharge that registers in fluid flow communication with a pump outlet and can include a ring or bushing therebetween providing additional noise attenuation. | 09-05-2013 |
20130228130 | PET FOUNTAIN ASSEMBLY - A pet drinking fountain assembly having a pump forming part of a fountain mounting arrangement that includes a lift tube coupling a cover to the pump coupled to a lower basin by a mount. The mount and lift tube attenuate pump noise and vibration by providing isolation from the basin and cover and can function as dampeners. In a preferred embodiment the pump is part of a pump module that includes a module housing to which the pump is attached by another noise-attenuating mount. Each mount is formed by one or more suction cups with the cups and lift tube made of vibration dampening material, such as a resilient vibration dampening or isolating material that can be an elastomeric material. The module includes a lift tube coupling discharge that registers in fluid flow communication with a pump outlet and can include a ring or bushing therebetween providing additional noise attenuation. | 09-05-2013 |
20130228131 | PET FOUNTAIN ASSEMBLY WITH LIFT TUBE - A pet drinking fountain assembly having a pump forming part of a fountain mounting arrangement that includes a lift tube coupling a cover to the pump coupled to a lower basin by a mount. The mount and lift tube attenuate pump noise and vibration by providing isolation from the basin and cover and can function as dampeners. In a preferred embodiment the pump is part of a pump module that includes a module housing to which the pump is attached by another noise-attenuating mount. Each mount is formed by one or more suction cups with the cups and lift tube made of vibration dampening material, such as a resilient vibration dampening or isolating material that can be an elastomeric material. The module includes a lift tube coupling discharge that registers in fluid flow communication with a pump outlet and can include a ring or bushing therebetween providing additional noise attenuation. | 09-05-2013 |
20130228132 | PUMP MODULE FOR PET FOUNTAIN - A pet drinking fountain assembly having a pump forming part of a fountain mounting arrangement that includes a lift tube coupling a cover to the pump coupled to a lower basin by a mount. The mount and lift tube attenuate pump noise and vibration by providing isolation from the basin and cover and can function as dampeners. In a preferred embodiment the pump is part of a pump module that includes a module housing to which the pump is attached by another noise-attenuating mount. Each mount is formed by one or more suction cups with the cups and lift tube made of vibration dampening material, such as a resilient vibration dampening or isolating material that can be an elastomeric material. The module includes a lift tube coupling discharge that registers in fluid flow communication with a pump outlet and can include a ring or bushing therebetween providing additional noise attenuation. | 09-05-2013 |
20130228508 | Filter for pet fountain - A pet drinking fountain assembly having a pump forming part of a fountain mounting arrangement that includes a lift tube coupling a cover to the pump coupled to a lower basin by a mount. The mount and lift tube attenuate pump noise and vibration by providing isolation from the basin and cover and can function as dampeners. In a preferred embodiment the pump is part of a pump module that includes a module housing to which the pump is attached by another noise-attenuating mount. Each mount is formed by one or more suction cups with the cups and lift tube made of vibration dampening material, such as a resilient vibration dampening or isolating material that can be an elastomeric material. The module includes a lift tube coupling discharge that registers in fluid flow communication with a pump outlet and can include a ring or bushing therebetween providing additional noise attenuation. | 09-05-2013 |
20130255584 | Water Wheel Aerator Assembly For Pet Fountain - An aerator assembly for an animal watering device having a rotor mount removably inserted in a discharge opening of a cover of the device and a rotor carried by the mount that is rotated by discharged water. The mount includes a conduit having one end inserted in the cover and an outlet at its opposite end conveying a discharged stream of water against rotor baffles causing rotation. The mount includes an arm that offsets an axis of rotation of the rotor relative to the stream so water impinges against a baffle. A pin can be included that engages the arm that is received through a rotor hub rotatively attaching the rotor to the arm. Such an aerator not only aerates water discharged during fountain operation, it also reduces noise by reducing splashing. The present invention is also directed to a pet fountain equipped with such an aerator assembly. | 10-03-2013 |
20130276711 | Pet Feeding Dish And System - A pet feeding system is disclosed that includes a dish configured to regulate intake of food by a pet, such as a cat. The dish has a housing in cooperation with a food-dispensing receptacle that dispense food into a food-receiving chamber within the housing permitting a pet to access food in the chamber through at least one food access port that only permits part of the pet to reach within the housing to get some food. The food-dispensing receptacle can be a bowl that can be integrally formed as part of the housing and can also be a food-holding container that seats in the bowl. A cap is provided that can cover food in the bowl or container preventing a pet from accessing the food. | 10-24-2013 |
20130291804 | Animal Attractant Dispensing Device - A dispensing animal interactive device formed of a perforate flexible pouch holding an animal attractant dispensed through perforations in the pouch during animal-induced deformation of the pouch during animal interaction. The pouch is formed of an endless sidewall of a biaxial woven or braided construction whose perforations change in size responsive to animal interaction. One preferred pouch holds catnip that is dispensed through perforations by engagement between the pouch sidewall and catnip from cat interaction that abrades catnip into smaller particles and that squeezes catnip out perforations in the sidewall with cat interaction causing the size of perforations in a region of the sidewall adjacent cat-induced deformation to increase dispensing catnip out of enlarged perforations. Ground catnip can express oils that can be dispensed in the form of a scent from the pouch and which increases the pungency of dispensed catnip. | 11-07-2013 |
20130323400 | Edible Filling and Method Of Making An Edible Filling - An edible filling formed of protein-containing solid particles in a fat-containing carrier having lecithin during wet particle size reduction to emulsify before enough starch is added to absorb excess or free fat-containing carrier when mixed together. One preferred particle size reduction method step employs wet grinding of proteins in a ball mill disposed in a fat containing oil or shortening carrier until substantially all of the proteins have been reduced in size to a particle size of less than 40 microns enabling the reduced size protein particles to remain in suspension in the resultant filling for an extended period of time increasing filling storage or shelf life while also producing a filling of more uniform appearance, texture and taste. Lecithin in excess of what is needed for emulsification is added during filling making to protect proteins and absorb excess water in the filling. | 12-05-2013 |
20140069340 | Cage Mounted Watering Device - In one embodiment, a watering assembly includes a basin and a bowl disposed on opposite sides of a cage wall. The basin and the bowl are releasably coupled to one another, for example by a hook-socket combination. The basin includes a pump that moves water along a supply conduit and into the bowl. The bowl has a return conduit that returns water from the bowl to the basin. A reservoir is coupled to and in fluid communication with the basin so that watering assembly may provide a volume of water that is greater than the combined water-holding volume of the bowl and the basin. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069341 | Interchangeable Flow Directing Orifice Inserts And Recirculating Pet Fountain With Flow Directing Orifice Inserts - A recirculating pet fountain having a cover mounted on a basin in a manner that removably seats the cover on the basin. An inclined spillway of the cover has an intake-defining edge below water in the basin producing a spillway that also is a debris and detritus blocking barrier. The fountain includes at least one removable orifice insert having a mounting stem received in an opening in the cover and a head from which water exits. Interchangeable inserts can be provided with one insert directing a water stream out a nozzle onto the spillway or into water in a bowl disposed below the insert that can be a drinking well. Another insert can be a flow dividing insert splitting flow into a plurality of streams. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069344 | Method Of Making Extruded Self-Clumping Cat Litter - A litter and litter making method producing cat litter from a carbohydrate starch-containing cereal grain, e.g., corn, based admixture extruded from a single screw or twin screw extruder forming pellets having a clumping agent formed during extrusion composed at least in part of carbohydrate polymer binder. Each pellet is extruded under conditions that cause formation of carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent at least some of which is water soluble. One preferred method of extruding cat litter causes starch dextrinization to occur such that at least some of the carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent in each pellet is formed of dextrin. Each pellet can be coated such as with a smectite that preferably is bentonite. During use, pellet extrusion formed clumping agent in a pellet wetted with urine dissolves and flows in between and along adjacent pellets causing them to clump together without the presence of any clumping agent additive. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069345 | Self-Clumping Cat Litter - A litter and litter making method producing cat litter from a carbohydrate starch-containing cereal grain, e.g., corn, based admixture extruded from a single screw or twin screw extruder forming pellets having a clumping agent formed during extrusion composed at least in part of carbohydrate polymer binder. Each pellet is extruded under conditions that cause formation of carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent at least some of which is water soluble. One preferred method of extruding cat litter causes starch dextrinization to occur such that at least some of the carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent in each pellet is formed of dextrin. Each pellet can be coated such as with a smectite that preferably is bentonite. During use, pellet extrusion formed clumping agent in a pellet wetted with urine dissolves and flows in between and along adjacent pellets causing them to clump together without the presence of any clumping agent additive. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069346 | Coated Extruded Animal Litter - A litter and litter making method producing cat litter from a carbohydrate starch-containing cereal grain, e.g., corn, based admixture extruded from a single screw or twin screw extruder forming pellets having a clumping agent formed during extrusion composed at least in part of carbohydrate polymer binder. Each pellet is extruded under conditions that cause formation of carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent at least some of which is water soluble. One preferred method of extruding cat litter causes starch dextrinization to occur such that at least some of the carbohydrate polymer binder clumping agent in each pellet is formed of dextrin. Each pellet can be coated such as with a smectite that preferably is bentonite. During use, pellet extrusion formed clumping agent in a pellet wetted with urine dissolves and flows in between and along adjacent pellets causing them to clump together without the presence of any clumping agent additive. | 03-13-2014 |
20140102309 | PET FOUNTAIN DIFFUSER - A water diffuser that extends from the discharge outlet of a pet fountain, for receiving water from the outlet of the pet fountain's water pump, wherein the diffuser includes a perforate tubular diffuser section that can be releasably coupled or otherwise anchored to part of the fountain by a connecting or coupling section that preferably is tubular and imperforate. The diffuser can include a water treatment disposed within the diffuser that is dispensed or released into water flowing through the diffuser. The diffuser may also include a filter for removing contaminants from water flowing through the water. Where used together with a water treatment, the filter can be disposed within the diffuser upstream of the water treatment for filtering water flowing through the diffuser before treating the flowing water. | 04-17-2014 |
20140102374 | Pump Anchored Fountain Cover And Pet Fountain Assembly - A recirculating pet fountain has a cover anchored in a basin by attachment to a pump mounted to the basin. The cover includes a spillway having opposite side edges slidably conforming to the inner surface of opposite adjacent sides of a basin sidewall helping locate the cover during assembly preventing side-to-side cover movement after assembly. The spillway rests on a bottom of the basin and has a bottom edge spaced from the bottom defining an intake leading to the pump. The cover can include a support spaced from the spillway configured to hold a filter with the support resting on the basin bottom. A cord anchor can be integrally formed in the basin sidewall to hold part of a pump power cord in a manner enabling the cover to rest thereon. Such a fountain assembly enables the cover to be anchored within the basin without interlockingly engaging the basin. | 04-17-2014 |
20140130747 | Pet Feeding System With Removable Food Holding Container - 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. | 05-15-2014 |
20140190417 | Pet Bed - A pet bed having a cushion that includes multiple pillows that can be removed and washed is disclosed. The pet bed has a cover with multiple pockets, each of which holds one or more of the pillows while allowing the pillows to be removed from and replaced into the respective pocket which permits selective washing of individual segments of the cushion. The bed is formed of a cover having a plurality of pairs of radially and upwardly extending bolster cushion pillow receiving pockets that each receive a bolster cushion and a center cushion pocket locking the bolster cushion pillows in their respective pockets when a center cushion pillow is received in the center cushion pocket and a covering flap of the cover closed. | 07-10-2014 |
20140335323 | Laminate Structural Material - A laminate structural material including at least one substrate layer and at least one reinforcing layer. The reinforcing layer may include a binder and a starch-containing component. The reinforcing layer is made from a base material having discrete starch-containing pellets bound to each other by a carbohydrate polymer binder. The laminate structural material to be formed into components of furniture, shelters, enclosures, pet accessories, and/or other structures. | 11-13-2014 |
20140338613 | Rolling Ball Pet Toy - A pet toy having a track with an attractant or lure that preferably is a ball that rolls around the track when a rocker arm is rotated by a rotary drive. An animal proximity sensor that includes a switch energizes, de-energizes and/or reverses direction of the drive when actuated by a pet. The arm carries a counterweight and is supported by bearing that rides on a base of the toy spacing the arm so it clears an onboard power supply. A preferred toy has a fulcrum resting on a support surface about which the track rocks during arm rotation and can include a rib that provides rotating point or line contact with the surface during rotation. An acoustic resonator recess, e.g. channel, formed in the track amplifies the sound of a ball rolling in the track producing a distinctive sound that attracts pets, e.g., cats, and is pleasing to humans. | 11-20-2014 |
20150020746 | Support Arrangement For Soft Sided Aquarium - An aquarium with a flexible side wall includes a support arrangement. The support arrangement can include a lower support that serves as a base and an upper support capturing an upper edge of the flexible side wall to distribute forces applied to the upper edge of flexible side wall so that a force applied to a discrete location to the side wall is distributed across a relatively larger portion of the side wall than at the discrete location for preventing localized buckling of the side wall preventing spilling. The support arrangement includes an upper support formed of a ring and a ring-shaped insert received in a cavity of the ring providing opposing support surfaces engaging an upper portion of the flexible side wall. In a preferred embodiment, the ring and ring-shaped insert nest to clamp part of the side wall therebetween. | 01-22-2015 |
20150042112 | Object-Enclosing Chambered Scooper - A scooper that has a plurality of pivoting scoop jaws that rotate between an open position and a closed position defining a substantially enclosed object-holding scooper chamber that operably cooperates with a skirt overlying the scoop jaws covering a top of the chamber that also which protects scoop jaw pivoting linkages and pivots of the scooper. Such a scooper can be constructed with an elongate frame that can be tubular in which a scoop jaw actuating linkage arrangement is disposed enabling the scooper to be used while standing up. Such a scoop can also be configured to be stored uprightly and is well suited for a wide variety of indoor and outer scooping applications including for fecal matter scooping, trash or refuse pickup, object pickup and the like. | 02-12-2015 |
20150061498 | Temperature Controlled High Output LED Lighting System - A lighting system for providing high intensity lighting may include an LED system and a control system that controls the LED system based on a determined temperature to ensure that a minimum acceptable lighting value is provided at all times while thermally protecting the LED system. The high output lighting system has a lamp or luminaire equipped with the LED system producing a thermally regulated LED lighting system well suited for indoor and/or outdoor lighting applications such as portable and other light towers. | 03-05-2015 |