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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1998
Helmut Rader, Heppenheim, DE;
Monoflo International, Inc., Winchester, VA (US);
Abstract
An animal drinking cup or bowl is provided which is constructed so that water being dispensed from a nipple drinker mounted by the cup or bowl will move to a location remote from the drinker actuator, encouraging the animal to drink from a remote pool of water, and thereby reducing water waste and spillage. A metal cup or bowl body mounts the nipple drinker so that the pin actuator is at a first location, and the cup or bowl body has a slanted bottom portion adjacent the first location and leading to a pool-defining portion at a second location remote from the first location. The second location is preferably sufficiently remote from the first location so that an animal (such as a piglet) using the drinking cup or bowl substantially cannot activate the pin when simultaneously drinking out of the pool-defining portion. The slanted bottom portion may make a substantially uniform angle of about 4-10.degree. with respect to the horizontal, and the pool-defining portion can be at the far front of the drinker, at one side, or at both sides with a center portion from which two bottom portions slant downwardly.