Adjustable Reptile Feeding Dish With Anti-Escape Climbing Column
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional pet feeding dishes have fixed volumes and cannot be adjusted according to feeding amount or pet cage size, leading to reptiles crawling around and affecting the environment, and they lack features to prevent escape.
Innovation Solution
A pet feeding dish with a climbing column featuring adjustable height via helical structures, branch structures for expanded activity space, and an anti-escape umbrella-like structure to prevent jumping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-volume feeding dish is used, then the structure is simple, but it cannot be adjusted according to feeding amount or cage size, causing reptiles to crawl around
Solution Approach 1:
The feeding dish is divided into a dish body and a climbing column assembly that can be segmented and reconfigured. The climbing column can be adjusted to different heights and positions within the dish, allowing the structure to adapt to various cage sizes and feeding amounts without requiring a completely different dish design.
Solution Approach 2:
The climbing column is designed with movable and adjustable features, transforming the static fixed-volume dish into a dynamic system. The column can be raised, lowered, and repositioned to create variable activity spaces within the dish, enabling adaptation to different feeding scenarios while maintaining a relatively simple base structure.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If small reptiles are directly placed in a pet box, then the setup is simple, but the reptiles crawl around and affect the environment
Solution Approach 1:
The climbing column introduces a vertical dimension to the feeding dish, transforming it from a simple horizontal container into a multi-level structure. This vertical space provides reptiles with climbing and activity opportunities, keeping them contained within the dish rather than allowing them to crawl around the pet box environment.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the feeding dish volume is fixed, then manufacturing is simple, but it cannot accommodate different numbers of reptiles or cage sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The climbing column assembly serves multiple functions: it acts as a structural support, a height-adjustable divider, and a climbing feature for reptiles. This multi-functional component allows a single dish design to accommodate various numbers of reptiles and different cage sizes without requiring multiple specialized dish variants.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Expands activity space, reduces reptile crawling, allows height adjustment for flexibility, and prevents escape, enhancing reptile vitality and maintaining a clean environment.
Implementation Method 1
the upper climbing column and the lower climbing column are movably assembled through helical structures to adjust a height of the climbing column
Implementation Method 2
an end of each of the at least one branch structure is provided with a pair of clamping feet, an helical structure on the outer side wall of the climbing column defines a helical groove
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a pet feeding dish. The pet feeding dish includes a feeder body and a climbing column standing in the feeder body. The climbing column includes an upper climbing column and a lower climbing column. The upper climbing column and the lower climbing column are movably assembled through helical structures to adjust a height of the climbing column. The pet feeding dish of the present application has a flexible applicability.