Patent applications: devices for cat lovers (or otherwise)
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:21 pm
As i read the article, I was thinking of Dick Orkin's "Kitty Lickers" radio spot (for i forget what), which revolved around an executive being fascinated by a funding pitch by the inventor of a device to make sealing envelopes easier by immobilising the cat and forcing it to stick out its tongue...
Man, i wonder how many of the people behind these things actually have cats.
This one is an example of why i wonder:
Man, i wonder how many of the people behind these things actually have cats.
This one is an example of why i wonder:
Now this guy, OTOH, either loves his cat or hates sparrows (or, of course, both):"Another Device for Restraining a Cat"
Meanwhile, Ruby Y. Young's "Cat Restrainer" looks like a horror film-approved torture device. The patent describes it as "a combination of a harness and frame assembly to provide a cat bathing, treating, breeding, transporting, and surgical restraint." Yikes.
"Bird Trap and Cat Feeder"
But Leo O. Voelker doesn't want to save the birds - or sparrows, anyway. His grisly "Bird Trap and Cat Feeder" is "designed to catch birds the size of a sparrow while releasing smaller song birds, wrens, swallows, or the like. The feeder providing means for continuously supplying a cat or neighborhood cats with sparrows to eat." The device delivers sparrows into a mesh cage; when the bird sticks its head through the mesh opening, the cat can grab it with its paw and pull it out - bon appétit!
