Patent ID: 8800488
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A multi-meal, automated pet feeding apparatus, comprising: a lower housing forming a partial enclosure comprising a bottom, a vertically extending side wall or walls with an expansive top aperture opening into the interior of the lower housing; a feeding turntable comprising a plurality of circumferentially adjacent, radially aligned, horizontally expansive food compartments each bounded by a bottom surface and side walls and open at its top, the turntable rotatably mounted and rotatable within the horizontal dimension of the lower housing; and a reversibly closable horizontally expansive top cover having an outward-facing top surface and an inward-facing bottom surface and a feeding aperture formed therethrough, wherein the top cover and the lower housing are mutually sized and configured so that when the top cover is closed it covers the top aperture formed in the lower housing except for the portion of said top aperture that is below the feeding aperture of the top cover, wherein the feeding aperture and the food compartments are mutually sized and configured so that the feeding aperture is capable of providing access to only a single underlying food compartment at one time, and wherein the horizontal dimension of the top aperture of the lower housing is larger than the horizontal dimension of the feeding turntable.