Pet fountain with basin-straddling cover

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9826712
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14666551

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A pet fountain assembly that includes a cover with a drinking bowl formed therein that straddles a sidewall of a basin that can be user-provided enclosing a pump within a pumping chamber defined therebetween. The cover has a downwardly extending sidewall divided by openings that can be generally U-shaped or V-shaped into a plurality of supports on which the cover. In a preferred embodiment, one of the supports is disposed outboard the basin sidewall resting on the ground and another one of the supports is disposed inboard the basin sidewall resting on a bottom of the basin providing a water passage enabling water from the basin to reach the pump. The inboard support can provide an overflow spillway as well as define a shroud disposed between the pump and water in a lower drinking bowl of the basin. The basin can include an outwardly offset seat that locates the pump.

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PIONEER PET PRODUCTS LLCN144W5660 PIONEER ROAD CEDARBURG WI 53012

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
He, Qing North Andover, US 166 2901
Lipscomb, John M Cedarburg, US 112 1639

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