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
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.