Patent ID: 9615548
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A01K,G01C,G01S,G06Q

Claim:
1. A single-use, hummingbird feed pod that is provided by a provider for use by a hummingbird having a long beak and a tongue, said hummingbird feed pod comprising: a body forming a reservoir with a specified interior volume, said body having a tubular wall with top and bottom ends between which extends a longitudinal axis for said body, and a bottom surface which is attached to said bottom end, and said top end having a perimeter rim surrounding an opening into said reservoir, and wherein the distance between said ends, as measured along said longitudinal axis, defines the height of said body, a thin, inner cover that has a boundary edge, wherein said boundary edge has a configuration that allows said boundary edge to directly attach to the entirety of said perimeter rim without a portion of said inner cover extending outwardly beyond said perimeter rim, a quantity of liquid hummingbird food contained within said reservoir, wherein said inner covering having an access hole therein that is configured to allow the long beak and tongue of said hummingbird to pass through said access hole so as to gain access to said liquid hummingbird food in said reservoir while also preventing said access to insects, wherein said height of said body is set so that the long beak and tongue of said hummingbird, after passing through said access hole, reaches a point proximate said bottom surface of said body when said hummingbird is perched above said feed pod, wherein the entirety of said body having a configuration adapted to resemble the center of a single, actual-size flower having a plurality of petals and that is attached to a stem from which said flower grows so that the entire specified interior volume of said body fits within a region defined by the spreading of said petals of said single, actual-size flower and a thickening part of said stem from which said single, actual-size flower grows, and a thin, elongated, peel-tab, single-use, outer cover having a graspable end and a configuration adapted to attach to said inner cover so as to temporarily seal said access hole until said graspable end is used by said provider to peel off said outer cover from said inner cover so as to provide a hummingbird access to said liquid hummingbird food contained within said reservoir.