Patent ID: 7669554
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A dog drinking device comprising, a trapezoidal shaped water container having a rear wall, a front wall, and two side walls, said rear wall being longer in width than said front wall, and said side walls slanting forwardly from the longer rear wall towards said front wall, a cover similar in shape and larger in dimensions than said container, said cover being securely and removably mountable on top of said water container, a generally rectangular access opening formed in said cover, a round drum rotatably and removably mounted within said water container, said drum having a wide circumferential surface, and an uppermost portion of said surface being located flush with a top edge of said water container in use and exposed in said access opening of said cover, an axle having two arms extending from opposite flat side surfaces of said drum, two mounting tracks formed at a center location on an inside surface of said side walls of said water container, said mounting tracks having a mirror image of one another in shape and construction and having a channel formed therein, and said two arms of said axle of said drum being slidably and rotatably engaged with said channel of said mounting tracks for maintaining said drum rotatably and securely mounted within said water container, a plurality of transverse grooves formed in said circumferential surface of said drum, said grooves extending between said two flat side surfaces of said drum, skirting flanges formed at all sides of said access opening, said flanges extending downwardly and slanting in close proximity and adjacent to said circumferential and said two flat side surfaces of said drum.