Patent ID: 6622654
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A weight-discriminating bird feeder, comprising:a housing assembly; said assembly having a seed reservoir; seed ports formed in said assembly; perches (a) pivotably mounted to said assembly, and (b) extending outwardly from said assembly in adjacency to said ports; and weights wholly confined and obscured within, and unattached to, said assembly; wherein said perches comprise means, responsive to a weight-loading thereof by birds alighting thereon, for displacing said weights; said assembly further includes a chamber having a plurality of compartments formed therein; each of said compartments confines therewithin one of said weights; said perches are pivotably mounted to said chamber; and said weights-displacing means of each perch intrudes into one of said compartments for engagement with a weight therein.