Manual pet feeder
View Patent ↗The present invention discloses a manual pet feeder. The manual pet feeder includes a barrel body having an opening at a top portion thereof and a feed dispensing mechanism being disposed at a bottom portion of the barrel body corresponding to the feed outlet; an upper cover, mounted on the opening at the top portion of the barrel body, where a top portion of the upper cover is provided with a manual driving mechanism; a drive mechanism is disposed inside a side face of the barrel body, and the manual driving mechanism is connected to the feed dispensing mechanism via the drive mechanism. In the manual pet feeder, a handle is disposed at the top portion of the barrel body, and the feed dispensing mechanism is driven to rotate by the handle, thereby raising the position of action for operating the feed dispensing mechanism to the upper cover.
1 . A manual pet feeder, comprising:
a barrel body, having an opening at a top portion thereof and a feed outlet at a bottom portion thereof, and a feed dispensing mechanism being disposed at the bottom portion of the barrel body corresponding to the feed outlet; and
an upper cover, detachably and sealingly mounted on the opening at the top portion of the barrel body, and a top portion of the upper cover having a rotatable manual driving mechanism;
a drive mechanism being disposed inside a side face of the barrel body, and the manual driving mechanism being connected to the feed dispensing mechanism via the drive mechanism to drive the feed dispensing mechanism to operate, so that pet food stored in the barrel body is output through the feed outlet;
a funnel-shaped converging port and a transversely-arranged feed dispensing pipe are disposed at a lower end inside the barrel body, the feed dispensing pipe is internally provided with the feed dispensing mechanism, one end of the dispensing pipe is abutted to the converging port, and the other end of the feed dispensing pipe is abutted to the feed outlet.
2 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 1 , wherein the manual pet feeder further comprises a food bowl, a barrel body seat is disposed at a rear portion of the food bowl, the barrel body is detachably connected to the barrel body seat, a concave tray is detachably mounted at a front portion of the food bowl, and the feed outlet is located above an edge of the tray.
3 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 1 , wherein the drive mechanism is a vertically-arranged drive shaft, the drive shaft is rotatably connected to an interior of a back portion of the barrel body, and a lower end of the drive shaft is provided with a first sector gear;
the feed dispensing mechanism has a shaft-shaped center, and a rear end of the feed dispensing mechanism is provided with a second sector gear; and
the first sector gear is meshed with the second sector gear, and an upper end of the drive shaft is in power connection with the manual driving mechanism.
4 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 1 , wherein the upper cover comprises:
a cover plate body;
the rotatable manual driving mechanism comprises a vertically-arranged rotating shaft, rotatably connected to a middle portion of the cover plate body, where the rotating shaft is configured to pass through the cover plate body, and a lower end of the rotating shaft is provided with a first driving member;
the rotatable manual driving mechanism comprises a transversely-arranged handle, wherein one end of the handle is mounted at an upper end of the rotating shaft to drive the rotating shaft to rotate; and
a top portion of the drive mechanism is provided with a second driving member, and the first driving member is in power connection with the second driving member via the drive mechanism.
5 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 4 , wherein the other end of the handle is provided with a flip limiting member capable of flipping up and down, the flip limiting member has a first flip position and a second flip position, and a rotary limiting groove is disposed on one side of a top surface of the cover plate body;
when the flip limiting member is flipped to the first flip position, a portion of the flip limiting member is located within the rotary limiting groove to restrict rotation of the handle; and
when the flip limiting member is flipped to the second flip position, the flip limiting member is detached from the rotary limiting groove, and the flip limiting member is perpendicular to the handle.
6 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 5 , wherein one end of the flip limiting member away from the handle is a spherical structure, and the rotary limiting groove is an arc-shaped groove matched with the spherical structure.
7 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 4 , wherein both the first driving member and the second driving member are gears, and the drive mechanism is a mutually-meshed gear transmission set that is disposed at a bottom portion of the cover plate body.
8 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 4 , wherein an upper cover sealing plate is mounted on the bottom portion of the cover plate body, the upper cover sealing plate has a downward-recessed boss structure, a sealing ring is disposed around the boss structure, and the upper cover is sealingly mounted on the opening at the top portion of the barrel body via the sealing ring.
9 . The manual pet feeder according to claim 1 , wherein a side face of the barrel body is provided with an observation window for observing a remaining amount of the pet food stored inside the barrel body.