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 Title: |
US4150505:
Bird trap and cat feeder
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Voelker, Leo O.; Linn, KS 66953
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1979-04-24
/ 1977-08-08
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| Application Number: |
US1977000822683
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A01M 23/04;
Core:
A01M 23/00;
IPC-7:
A01K 39/01;
A01M 23/04;
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| ECLA Code: |
A01M23/04;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
043/069;
119/428;
Original:
043/069;
119/023;
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| Field of Search: |
043/061,66,67,68,69
119/023,51 R
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| Priority Number: |
| 1977-08-08 |
US1977000822683 |
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| Abstract: |
A bird trap and cat feeder for catching birds and feeding the birds to a cat. The trap designed to catch birds the size of a sparrow while releasing smaller song birds, wrens, swallows, or the like. The feeder providing means for continuously supplying a cat or neighborhood cats with sparrows to eat.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Crabtree, Edwin H. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Godici, Nicholas P.;
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A bird trap and cat feeder for catching a bird and in particular, a sparrow, and feeding the bird to a cat, the trap comprising:
- an enclosed bird housing having an upper portion, a tapered lower portion, a back, a front, a top, an open bottom, and sides;
- an entrance hole mounted in the side of the upper portion of said housing for receiving the bird therethrough;
- a glass window mounted in an opening in the tapered lower portion of the front of said housing;
- a balanced pivot tube pivotally mounted on a pivot pin inside said housing, a first end of said pivot tube is attached to a balance weight for balancing said tube in a horizontal position, a second end of said tube is disposed adjacent and below said entrance hole for receiving the bird thereon, the second end of said pivot tube with the bird thereon lowered downwardly, when the second end of said pivot tube is lowered downwardly the second end is disposed in the tapered lower portion of said housing and adjacent said glass window; and
- a wire mesh cage communicably connected to the open bottom of said housing for receiving the bird therein, said wire mesh cage dimensions so that the openings in the wire mesh are small enough to prevent the bird from escaping, the openings in the wire mesh are large enough for the bird to stick his head through the openings in the wire mesh so that the cat can quickly pull the bird out of said cage with his paw.
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