Patent ID: 6848392

Claim:
An insect terminating pet food dish apparatus comprising: a base for resting upon a ground surface; a bowl located above said base, said bowl including an upper wall and a side wall extending generally downwardly from a periphery of said upper wall, said upper wall having a substantially concave upper surface for holding pet food; a support extending between said base and said bowl to space said bowl from said base, said support extending upwardly from said base to said bowl, said support having an outer surface; and an insect terminating assembly for electrically exterminating insects, said insect terminating assembly including: at least a pair of electrically conductive coils extended about said support member in a substantially uniformly spaced relationship to each other, a first coil of said pair of coils being relatively positively charged and a second coil of said pair of coils being relatively negatively charged such that an insect simultaneously contacting both the first and second coils closes a circuit including the body of the insect; and a power source for producing a charge on each of said pair of coils, said power source being electrically connected to each of said pair of coils, a positive terminal of said power source being connected to the first one of said pair of coils and a negative terminal of said power source being connected to the second one of said pair of coils; wherein said pair of coils are substantially helical on said outer surface of said support and each of said helical coils extends from a lower position on said support to an upper position on said support.