Bird Feeder Patents (Class D30/124)
  • Patent number: 6408788
    Abstract: A seed port, intended to permit dispensing large and small seeds from the same feeder, can be used with a bird feeder having a columnar reservoir for the containment of bird seed wherein the seed port has a platform with an opening that attaches to the reservoir in alignment with an opening in the reservoir. The seed port further provides a trough and a hinged lid with a small opening that will alternatively deny access to the trough while permitting access to seeds in the reservoir; or deny access to seeds in the reservoir while permitting access to seeds in the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Cedar Works, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Paul Lieb, James Roberts Obenshain
  • Patent number: 6332427
    Abstract: A feeder for small birds having an elongated tube with a plurality of spaced apart perch support openings drilled therethrough and spaced above each perch support opening is a feed dispensing opening, a perch rod received within each of the perch support openings, a top cap removably receivable on the tube top end and having a central opening therethrough, a bottom cap removably received on the tube bottom end and having an opening therethrough and a flexible line received through the tube and through the opening in the top cap whereby the top cap can be slidably moved on the line and the line extending through the opening in the bottom cap by which the line is secured to said bottom cap, the line having an upper portion above the top cap by which the line may be secured to a support structure and by which the tube is vertically supported, the top and bottom caps being removable for filling or emptying the tube of bird feed without removing the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Inventor: Bob G. Coulson
  • Patent number: D440360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: David Nylen
  • Patent number: D440361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Droll Yankees, Inc.
    Inventor: Betsy P. Colwell
  • Patent number: D441148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventors: Catherine E. Bruni, Pasquale V. Bruni
  • Patent number: D441505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventor: David Nylen
  • Patent number: D441922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventor: David Nylen
  • Patent number: D441923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Parasol LLC
    Inventors: Alfredo GarcĂ­a-Lucio, Jim B. McKeever
  • Patent number: D448126
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Droll Yankees Inc.
    Inventor: Betsy P. Colwell
  • Patent number: D450892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Parasol, LLC
    Inventors: Alfredo Garcia-Lucio, Jim B. McKeever
  • Patent number: D450893
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Parasol, LLC
    Inventors: Alfredo Garcia-Lucio, Jim B. McKeever
  • Patent number: D451251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Blitz U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Larry L. Chrisco, Orval Lee Fick
  • Patent number: D452048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Droll Yankees, Inc.
    Inventor: Betsy P. Colwell
  • Patent number: D452049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Wren Garden Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Gail Stokes, Kevin Williams
  • Patent number: D459840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Inventor: Hui-Juan Lian
  • Patent number: D460839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: CTB IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Lionel Leslie Kreger, Theodore John Cole, James Kraft
  • Patent number: D466255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: World Factory, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory G. Kuelbs
  • Patent number: D466654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Inventor: Philip George Ridyard
  • Patent number: D466656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: World Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Kuelbs, Laura A. Malick Smith
  • Patent number: D469930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Backyard Nature Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan A. Bloedorn
  • Patent number: D471326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Exhart Environmental Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac Weiser, Margaret Weiser
  • Patent number: D476117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Inventor: Timothy E. Nicholas
  • Patent number: D477117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Duncraft
    Inventors: Gail Stokes, Kevin Williams
  • Patent number: D480515
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: ERVA Tool & Mfg. Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Erwin J. Heyek
  • Patent number: D483529
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Daisy Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: W. Grady Fort, II
  • Patent number: D485022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Gardner Equipment Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Green
  • Patent number: D485397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Gardner Equipment Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Green
  • Patent number: D485398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Gardner Equipment Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Green
  • Patent number: D485650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Gardner Equipment Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Green
  • Patent number: D486272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Perky-Pet Products Company
    Inventor: Robert W. Donegan
  • Patent number: D486278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Inventor: Uta Nauert
  • Patent number: D487824
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: The Hayes Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip Michael Hayes
  • Patent number: D488590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Daisy Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: W. Grady Fort, II
  • Patent number: D490192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Inventors: Robert E. Markusen, Arthur J. Beutler
  • Patent number: D490941
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Woodstream Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher T. Rich, Clay E. Tully
  • Patent number: D492451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Erva Tool & Mfg. Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Erwin J. Heyek
  • Patent number: D497226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Inventor: Uta Nauert
  • Patent number: D497458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Inventor: Uta Nauert
  • Patent number: D421509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Wild Birds Unlimited, Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Carpenter
  • Patent number: D422122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Inventors: Richard L. Vore, Thomas E. Jones
  • Patent number: D422755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Droll Yankees, Inc.
    Inventor: Betsy Colwell
  • Patent number: D422756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Inventors: Gerard G. Geiger, Rudolph V. Vaclav, Donald E. Vaclav
  • Patent number: D424251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Inventor: Arthur Thomas Pickering
  • Patent number: D425675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Inventors: Murray Bonder, Carol P. Bonder
  • Patent number: D426683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventor: Dixon Rogers
  • Patent number: D427387
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Inventors: Cedar Millet, Gary Dickson
  • Patent number: D427732
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Inventor: Philip T Corletta
  • Patent number: D428216
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: SMJ Incorporated
    Inventors: Murray Bonder, Carol P. Bonder
  • Patent number: D428537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Inventor: Robert Miller
  • Patent number: D431330
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Inventor: Thomas E. Jones