US 12,245,569 B2
Pet toy
Jill Jackson, Fort Worth, TX (US); Ron Bagley, Dallas, TX (US); Sunil Pinto, Arlington, TX (US); and Josiah Wilhelm, Fort Worth, TX (US)
Assigned to Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc., Arlington, TX (US)
Filed by Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc., Arlington, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/391,351.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/107,578, filed on Oct. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132803 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 15/025 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pet toy comprising:
a body portion having a curved top portion with a pair of inwardly extending arcuate side portions on opposite sides of the curved top portion, the inwardly extending arcuate side portions each having a crescent shape as viewed from above such that a minimum width of the body portion is approximately at a longitudinal center of the body portion and is measured from one of the inwardly extending arcuate portions to the other of the inwardly extending arcuate portions, the body portion having a hollow interior;
a noise making device having a flexible bulb; and
a sliding portion attached to the body portion, the sliding portion defining a bottom surface and formed from rigid plastic so as to have a reduced coefficient of friction relative to a surface on which the pet toy is to slide, the sliding portion having a cylindrically shaped wall located within the hollow interior with a lower portion of the flexible bulb being disposed within the cylindrically shaped wall adjacent to the bottom surface and an upper portion of the flexible bulb extending upward out of the cylindrically shaped wall to the curved top portion of the body portion with an opening of the flexile bulb being exposed along an outer surface of the curved top portion of the body portion.