Patent ID: 7841132

Claim:
A watering jug for dispensing a measured amount of water to hanging plants, said jug comprising a) a container for receiving a quantity of water to be dispensed; b) a lid securable to a top portion of said container; c) an intake tube extending through said lid; d) a manually operable pump sitting atop said intake tube, said pump drawing a measured amount of water into said intake tube; e) a discharge tube forming a juncture with, and extending outwardly from, said intake tube at a point beneath said pump; f) a valve in said intake tube at said juncture allowing said pump to draw said measured amount of water from said container through said intake tube and redirect it into said discharge tube; g) an elongated delivery tube extending from said discharge tube a distance exceeding a height of said container; whereby said watering jug enables a person to deliver a measured amount of water conveniently and reliably to a hanging plant positioned several feet above her/his head h) an extension sleeve formed over an end of said intake tube, said extension sleeve being movable between a plurality of distinctly defined fixed positions; i) an adjustment handle attached to said extension sleeve, said adjustment handle having a plurality of teeth formed along at least one side thereof and extending through said lid, said plurality of teeth defining said plurality of distinctly defined fixed positions, a distance between a pair of said plurality of teeth defining a quantity of water which can be extracted from said container and delivered from said end of said delivery tube.