Patent ID: 9078411
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An arrangement for restricting access by a pet to food in an open topped feed vessel to slow the consumption of food from the vessel by the pet, comprising: a pedestal; an attachment for securing the pedestal to an inner surface of a bottom wall of said vessel so as to be held in an upright position within said vessel; and a covering piece mounted to an upper end of said pedestal to be held laterally fixed within said vessel and having one or more portions extending radially therefrom a substantial distance so as to cover a substantial part of said vessel open top while leaving one or more intervening radially extending spaces between an outer perimeter of said one or more portions and the inside of a rim of said vessel located opposite said one or more portions, which one or more spaces are sized to provide only a substantially reduced access to food in said vessel through said open top thereof, whereby access by a pet to food deposited in said vessel in a lower space therein below said covering piece one or more portions is substantially restricted to said one or more intervening spaces to thereby force the pet to avoid the covering piece one or more portions while eating and thereby slow the pet's consumption of food in said vessel.