Joseph D Coburn

US Patent:

6792891, Sep 21, 2004

Filed:

Aug 26, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/649415

Inventors:

Joseph David Coburn - Pepin WI 54759
Joel Ralph Bernhardt - Pepin WI 54759

International Classification:

A01K 700

US Classification:

119 72, 119 578

Abstract:

The present invention provides a self cleaning humming bird feeder equipped to protectively store sugared nectar and contaminated feed tank from insect infestation. The feeder including a feeding cup jacketed within a contaminated feed trap emptying onto a contaminated feed holding tank, a feed reservoir and a pump for pumping nectar to the feeding cup. Cleansing of the feed cup may be accomplished by pumping and overflowing excess sugared nectar into the feed cup causing it to spill over with contaminates onto the contaminated feed trap.