Abstract: An automatic food dispenser for animals, fish or the like, comprising a housing, controls, and with a hopper within, for containing food, the base of the hopper having an opening for the food to exit, and the opening is in close proximity to a dispensing mechanism. The mechanism has a surface, thus creating a sufficient seal to prevent the undesired escape of food from the hopper and has an aperture on its surface, whereupon, with the rotation of the dispensing mechanism about its axis, and the subsequent alignment of the aperture with opening at the base of the hopper, feed may escape from the hopper through the aperture, and hence directly through the open base of the dispensing mechanism, the volume of feed dispensed being a function of the variable speed of rotation, and the number of “to and fro” motions of the dispensing mechanism past the feed exit.

Abstract: An automatic food dispenser for animals, fish or the like, comprising of a housing, controls, and with a hopper within, for containing food, the base of said hopper having an opening for the food to exit (feed exit), said opening being in close proximity to a dispensing mechanism, said mechanism having a surface, thus creating a sufficient seal to prevent the undesired escape of food from said hopper, said dispensing mechanism having an aperture on it's surface, whereupon, with the rotation of the dispensing mechanism about it's axis, and the subsequent alignment of the aperture with opening at the base of the of the hopper, feed may escape from the hopper through said aperture, and hence directly through the open base of the dispensing mechanism, the volume of feed dispensed being a function of the variable speed of rotation, and the number of “to and fro” motions of the dispensing mechanism past the feed exit.