WO2009125026A1

WO2009125026A1 - Horse riding safety system and method

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Publication number: WO2009125026A1
Application number: PCT/ES2008/000229
Authority: WO
Inventors: Rodrigo Rodríguez Ojeda
Original assignee: Rodriguez Ojeda Rodrigo
Priority date: 2008-04-11
Filing date: 2008-04-11
Publication date: 2009-10-15
Also published as: EP2269945A1

Abstract

Horse riding safety system and method characterized essentially by the fitting, to the rider's belt, of a lock with multiple attachment points that is capable of opening instantaneously by means of a push-button in the event of a fall from the horse, wherein two straps are attached that secure a neck protector at the rider's neck and a spinal-column protector at the rider's back, said latter protector being formed by articulated padded panels, three elastic tensioning members of adjustable length connecting to the belt by means of loops with rings, said elastic tensioning members being coupled by means of hooks to the saddle on three rings secured by bands, metal plates, surcingles or a collar of the horse, guaranteeing isostatic balance on the saddle, the knees being connected to the saddle skirt by means of knee pieces with a sail-like member and the stirrup actions being fixed by means of covers connected to the skirt with a sail-like member and two bands connected to the knee pieces attached at the belt.

Description

DESCRIPTION

Riding safety system and procedure

STATE OF THE PREVIOUS TECHNIQUE.- It is not known in the prior art a set of devices that at the same time meet the following safety requirements of a horse rider in the learning period or in a high-irrigation mount: a) That use a safety harness that keeps the rider on the chair in isostatic balance of three anchor points preventing the rider from losing balance and falling in any direction. b) That the safety harness allows the rider to get on and off the saddle during jogging without being slowed in his movement. c) Contains a cervical protector and a spine protector that acts at the same time in case of fall of the rider if it is detached or separated from the harness that keeps it fixed on the saddle or in case of fall of the horse during the jump or by sliding the mount on the pavement even if the rider does not fall. d) That the safety harness contains a vertical sensor that opens the safety lock allowing the rider to free himself from the saddle fastening device while retaining at the same time in that case the cervical protector and the body protector spine. e) That the system includes a device that prevents the dispersion of the stirrups in case the rider loses them in an abrupt movement to help him recover them with his foot. f) That it facilitates the rider's adhesion of the knees to the saddle without losing the position. The FR2552065 (ZINZINDOHOUE) patent is a belt fixed to the saddle and the rider's waist so that although it ensures a balance against the risk of falling, however it prevents you from getting on and off during jogging by rigidly limiting your

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) movements and its learning, it does not have a cervical or spine protector, it does not help the rider to recover the stirrups with the foot and does not have a device that helps him keep the knee fixed in his saddle position in case of fall side of the rider. Patent EP08600397 (BOHN) consists of a rider's seat belt that only has two anchors, one front and one rear to the saddle, so if the restraint straps (no. 62 and 64 of said patent) are sufficiently long to allow the rider to go up and down during jogging, they will not prevent him from falling sideways to one side or the other being suspended from the two straps for missing a third anchor that ensures his isostatic balance on the saddle and in that case the rider falls sideways He will have a great difficulty to rejoin the chair, suffering a serious danger both in the event that the fall occurs at the time of the jump of an obstacle or in the event of the horse's unlocking. Likewise, said restraint system does not provide a system to free the rider's restraint harness in the event of the horse's fall and does not protect the cervical vertebrae or the rider's spine, it does not contain a means of restraint of the stirrups for recovery with foot if support is lost or a means of securing the knees to the saddle. Said patent foresees the use of the inner channel of the saddle to pass a belt from the front knob of the chair to the rear terminal but with only two anchor points, one front and one rear, which is insufficient to ensure the rider's isostatic balance. on the chair. EP 0974549 (ODDONE) only contemplates two rear anchors of the rider to the saddle but not a third opposite anchor that guarantees the isostatic balance on the chair so that it protects you from lateral falls and from falling forward but in case of obstacle jump or sudden start of the galloping horse does not prevent the rider from falling backwards in which case the proposed system adds additional risk factors when maintaining

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) the rider in suspension for an indefinite time on the horse's rump without allowing him to regain his position on the saddle. Said patent also adds two side coils for the tie-rods to the rider's chair that allow their deployment at the moment when the rider stands on the chair in the trot of the horse and is collected at the moment the rider descends until sitting on it, but taking into account the extreme rapidity with which these movements occur during the assembly, the proposed coils retard or slow the movement of the rider because it is he who has to deploy them with his body when ascending and a short delay is sufficient of a fraction of a second so that its effect accumulated during the riding of the horse makes the rider unpacked his movement with that of the saddle, so that the proposed technical solution has negative effects for riding and prevents proper learning of the new rider. This patent includes a metal plate that takes advantage of the saddle channel from front to back with a semicircular arc posterior to which it is attached but its function is only to serve as a fastening system to the two side coils without incorporating any front anchor opposite to the other two that guarantee the isostatic balance and making the product more expensive because for the fixation of only two anchors there are other means of fastening the anchors to the saddle as blankets or sobrecinchas that do not need the manufacture of a metal plate, and this means Clamping is only necessary for a high-strength anchor in a high degree of difficulty. On the other hand, said patent does not provide for cervical protection, nor protection of the spine, nor a system for fastening the stirrups, nor a system for attaching the knees to the saddle.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION.- The proposed invention consists of a safety harness formed by a safety belt and a tie with a cervical protector and a spine protector, an attachment formed by two braces that join at the height of

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) the shoulders to a cervical protector that consists of a gola that surrounds the neck with a safety chin to hold the chin and supported on two rigid pectoral fins, which makes it possible to tense the straps forward to tense the gola protecting the neck of the rider, braces that are anchored at its front end at the same belt safety lock that is equipped with four insertion anchors and that are released by opening the belt lock by means of a push button which allows all the anchors are released at the same time as the belt when the opening of the closure is activated and in that case when the rider's mount falls or leaves at his own will, or by the automatic action of a verticality sensor, the attachment with the cervical protector and the spine protector it is attached and tight to the rider's trunk and protects it against torsions and impacts of the spine vertebral or cervical vertebrae. The harness is formed by the belt with three fastening loops each with a ring and a trunk tie with the straps. The belt is anchored to the saddle and to the mount at three anchor points, as three support points are essential to guarantee the isostatic balance of a body in space, of which two anchors are always rear on each side of the rider and a front one in front of the saddle's bridge or bridge, allowing that isostatic balance of the rider against a force in any direction. The anchorage of the belt to the saddle is produced by the three loops that join three tensioners consisting of springs or elastic straps that at one of their ends are joined in turn by carabiners or hooks to the loops with steel rings located on the belt and at the other end to three rings attached or in solidarity with the saddle, which in turn can be anchored to a leather blanket in a parallelepipedic manner located under the saddles of the chair, having two of the rings in the angles of the lower back base of the blanket and the third at the center of its lower base

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) front, or alternatively be anchored as a fastening system of the anchorage to a leather strap or band on the rear saddle of the saddle to fasten the two rear side rings on both sides accompanied in this case by a front strap fastened to the neck of the mount that can be a petral chest or a collar on the mount, or instead be anchored to a metal plate formed by a longitudinal axis that crosses from front to back the inner channel of the saddle with the front end curved towards top finished in a ring and with a rear fork in two arms curved up and finished in a ring that are located on both sides of the rider and that by its curvature allow to adjust to pressure on the saddle of the plate, fastening means of the anchors that, due to their strength and hardness, are suitable for high-risk violent riding, or instead of the previous ones, be anchored to a mixed medium formed by two rear levers with return spring on each side of the rider in a metal box or other material attached to both sides of the rear frame by means of a fastening strap that runs through the rear terminal having the box containing the return spring an opening with a stop to prevent the lever from moving forward beyond a previously defined arc and ending each lever in a curvature to avoid puncture wounds to the rider in his gluteal muscles, and with a front strap fastened to the animal's neck that can be a breastplate or a collar, equipped with another ring, or instead be anchored to an envelope on the belly of the animal that in addition to holding the two back rings has the particular effect that it inhibits it when tensed in the event of a fall due to the pressure on the belly it produces that sedative or inhibitory effect of the animal and accompanied by a front strap fastened to the horse's neck that can also be a breastplate or a collar, or finally be anchored to a belt that crosses the saddle channel from back to front, which allows two anchors separated from each other to be attached at the rear to a crossbar that has the

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) rear anchors consisting of rings attached to its ends, a bar to which the belt is attached at its center, and which has a front ring protruding from its front end at the front end of the belt in order to serve as front anchor. The proposed invention includes a fastening attached to the rider's body by means of hooks or girdles that supports a cervical protector and a spine protector. The cervical protector is attached at the height of the chest and shoulders of the rider to the suspenders and is a piece of rigid, resistant and lightweight material such as carbon fiber or other similar, which is formed by a rigid vertical gola on the neck or neck, a chin safety chin attached to the gola being attached the gola to the shoulder straps and by two pectoral fins attached to the gola and to the chin protection collar and chin, fins that are attached by girdles to the braces on the chest to allow the cervical protector assembly to rest on the rider's chest and making it possible for the cervical protection gland to be tensioned by increasing the protection of the neck. The spine protector is formed by a set of two to four articulated plates joined together at the rider's back to the two shoulder straps, plates that are each designed with a profile that provides a flange or fit in the contact line of each plate with the next one to allow articulation between them and at the same time to allow forward spine flexion but preventing backward spine flexion due to the design of the plate profile as a measure of protection of the spine. The plates of said spine protector are attached at the back to the braces and covered by a cushion that is reinforced in the plate that protects the sacrolumbar area by the frequency of falls on that body area, the fastening being below the

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) main seat belt The protector of the spine can be constituted in number or by two plates, one of them of protection of the twelve dorsal vertebrae adjusted in its shape to the dorsal curve and the other of protection of the five lumbar and coccyx vertebrae, by how much two plates are sufficient for moderate mounting efforts such as the learning of new riders and have a lower cost, or be constituted by four or more plates, at least two of them dorsal for protection of the dorsal vertebrae, another lumbar for protection of the lumbar area and another sacral of coccyx protection, a set that adapts precisely to the spine if it is subjected to a strong forward bending for the practice of obstacle jumping or riding high risk, the plates being a rigid material , lightweight and high impact resistance such as carbon fiber, kevlar or similar being adapted in any case to the dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebrae and with the pr Imera of the plates located at the base of the cervical protector and each plate also having a padded coating that on the plate that covers the lumbar sacral area is reinforced given the frequency of impacts on the fall on the coccyx area, so that the whole of all the plates it resists and dampens the frontal impacts on the back, protecting in case of jump of obstacles or fall of the horse the backbone of the rider of the sudden flexion backwards and in case of fall of the head rider on the ground or against an obstacle the set of all articulated plates attached to the cervical protector and to the tie-up of the straps deflects the impact load on the shoulders to protect the spine, and in case of impact by fall on the sacral area of the spine the The structure of the articulated plates absorbs the impact and distributes it through the straps fitted to the rider's trunk, reducing the transmission of the impact on the cervical area and avoiding dislocation or reducing the coccyx,

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) The security system includes two shirts or semi-rigid covers of the ations - which are the stirrup straps of the stirrups -, to group the two branches of the strap of each stirrup and keep the actions rigid, facilitating the rider to recover the stirrup, covers consisting of a wide band of leather or other parallelepiped shaped material provided on its middle longitudinal axis with a wire guide to keep it extended at all times and that is fastened on itself containing inside the two branches of the ations of each stirrup when closing one of the major bases of the parallelepiped of the sheath on the other major base by means of square brackets or another closure system, the sheath having a length suitable for covering two thirds and joining together the two branches of the straps of the actions of each of the stirrups, covers that are each provided with a sailboat strip to adhere at one point to the sailboat of the skirt cover in the that the knees are supported and described below, so that if the rider is lost, the stirrup is kept in the same position as the saddle of the saddle without wobbling or separating from its normal position due to the movement of the animal in order to allow the rider to quickly find the stirrup with his foot again, which is extremely important in learning processes due to the insecurity caused to the rider because of the difficulty of quickly recovering the stirrup. The safety system also includes two covers one for each side skirt of the saddle for fixing the rider's knee, which are made of leather or other flexible and resistant material that covers each skirt and that are each secured with straps of fastening to the saddle strap on each side and each one having a sailboat surface or similar material on the outer face. The safety system includes two knee pads or knee covers on the rider's leg to be attached to the skirt covers to be fastened by square brackets or buttoned or embedded to the rider's leg at knee height with a surface on the inner face

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) of sailboat with an adequate size so that when joining the sailboat surface of the skirts and knee pads help the rider to adhere and fix their knees to the saddle also having the knee pads on the outer face of the knee a hook for a strap that at the other end is hooked or anchored in the lock of the main harness belt to tighten with the trunk and help the knee to exert adequate pressure on the saddle and prevent the knee from separating from the chair during riding, but being released in the event that the rider opens the seat belt fastener to allow its separation from the saddle in case of fall of the mount, so that the set of covers of the skirt of the chair and the knee pads help the rider to keep his knees in position and help prevent his fall from the horse in case of loss of balance on the chair and instead do not prevent the separation of the knee a of the saddle exerting a force perpendicular to the sailboat surface in case the rider must release the harness and jump off the saddle. The invention solves the main problems involved in the learning of riding and riding high difficulty with horses of nervous temperament offering the rider a set of means adaptable to all kinds of saddles and can be used simultaneously in whole or in part depending on their progression .

EXPLANATION OF THE BEST MODE OF EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION.- It is proposed as the best embodiment of the invention for the protection of the rider on horseback during learning periods or in high-risk riding, the set of harnesses and removable accessories usable at choice of the rider with all kinds of saddles essentially characterized by being constituted by a three-point support harness formed by a safety belt and a fastening attached to the trunk of the rider supporting a cervical protector and a spine protector, a cover on each skirt of the

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) saddle for attachment to a knee brace on each leg of the rider and a shirt or cover to group and fix the actions of each stirrup.

The three-point restraint harness prevents the mounted rider from falling to the floor and consists of an abdominal safety belt (1) of sufficient width to prevent abdominal rider injuries in the event of a fall or loss of balance on the saddle and a trunk rider fastening or belt and buckle equipment fitted to the trunk formed by two safety braces (2) attached to the belt by means of a front anchor in the belt lock. This belt on the rider's back passes over the straps that extend to the lumbar sacral area of the rider below the belt, and the straps in turn are fastened together around the rider's body by means of transverse hooks on the chest and by means of safety plates on the back, the straps being therefore except in the front anchor independent of the main harness belt so that they can be separated from the belt by releasing the front anchor if the opening of the belt closure occurs. The braces have the function of fastening a cervical protector and a spine protector on the rider's trunk, which will be attached to the rider's body in the event that he decides to release and free himself from the belt due to the fall of the horse and also attach the cervical protectors and back to the belt to tighten the cervical protector through the belt tensioners while the harness formed by the belt is closed on the rider's waist. The straps run from the front of the belt to the back through the shoulders of the rider, but at the height of the shoulders and chest of the rider they join a rigid cervical protector consisting of a piece with two pectoral fins (3) and a gola (4) supporting the neck around the neck from behind, which is held in position on the neck by the effect of the pectoral fins attached to the girdles of the straps and at the same time by the union of the fins to the suspenders and said protector

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) Cervical function is to prevent the cervical sprain of the rider in case his head moves sharply backwards as it happens in case of obstacle jump, sudden start or violent boat of the horse, gola that tenses increasing its protection of the cervical vertebrae if the Tensioner of the front anchorage (13) of the seat belt attached to the tie is tensioned, and must be the goal of a rigid, resistant and lightweight material such as carbon fiber or other similar and by its design rise above the neck of the rider allowing it rest your head on the goal that has to prevent sudden backward bending of the vertical vertebrae. In addition, the goal must be attached to the rider's chin to a stiff chinstrap attached in turn to the straps or straps of the rider's helmet, chinstrap that forms a point of support or support of the chin to limit the abrupt movements of the neck forward. The straps must be attached to the pectoral fins of the cervical protector at the height of the chest and also to the cervical protector at the height of the shoulders so that when the straps are stretched forward the cervical protector is also tensioned by pressing it against the neck of the rider To protect the neck. At the same time the straps must be attached to the rider's trunk so that in the event of the fall of the horse and that the rider is released from the belt and the straps are separated from the saddle, they continue to fulfill their function of securing the cervical protector and the protector of the spine in position. On the rider's back the two braces are attached to a spine protector (5) formed by a set of between two and four or more plates articulated with each other by means of a flange or insert in the contact line of each plate with the next (6), which makes it adapt to flexion of the spine forward but does not allow bending backwards beyond a certain position to protect the spine. The sectional profile of the plates requires a design that accompanies the curvature of the part of the spine in the back they protect and that the flange is wide enough and the insert or

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) Engage deep enough to prevent the plates from bending backwards but not preventing the plates from flexing forward to follow the rider's column flexes during riding. The spine protector can have two degrees of complexity that affects its economic cost. It can consist of only two plates, one of them protecting the twelve dorsal vertebrae adjusted in shape to the dorsal curve and the other protecting the five lumbar and coccyx vertebrae, a model that is sufficient for moderate mounting efforts such as those of learning of new riders, or it can have four or more plates, at least two of them dorsal, another lumbar and another sacral of protection of the coccyx to adapt with precision to the spine in cases of strong forward flexion for the obstacle jumping practice or high-risk riding. The plates are made of a rigid, lightweight and high impact resistance material such as carbon fiber or similar with a design adapted to the dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebrae, the first of the plates being located at the base of the cervical protector. Each plate also has a padded covering, which in the plate that covers the lumbar sacral area is reinforced so that all of them not only resist but also absorb the frontal impacts on the back, protecting in the event of an obstacle jump or Horse fall backbone of the rider from abrupt bending backwards In the event of the head rider falling against the ground or against an obstacle, the set of articulated plates attached to the cervical protector and the tie-up of the straps divert the impact load on the rider's shoulders protecting the spine, and in case of impact by fall on the sacral area of the spine the structure of the articulated plates absorbs the impact and distributes it through the fastenings of the straps to the rider's trunk thus reducing the transmission of the impact to the cervical area and avoiding or reducing dislocation of the coccyx. The two braces of the trunk tie converge at the front by means of a buckle on a

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) front safety lock or lock (7) with sufficient anchors to fix the braces (2) and the straps coming from the rider's knee pads (18). Said closure is capable of instantaneous manual opening by means of a push-button to allow the rider to release himself from the harness in the event of the horse falling if the horse slips on the ground or trips in an obstacle jump. The main harness belt has three loops or strips around the fastening belt, two rear (8) and one front (9) each equipped with a steel ring, and if as usual the closure or lock of the belt is fixed on one of its two front ends, the front loop must be installed on that of the front ends (10) of the safety belt on which the safety closure is not installed so that in case of release of said closure the belt front does not lock with closure. The three belt loops of the safety belt are joined by the eyelets to three adjustable tensioners or elastic straps (11) that are attached by carabiners or hooks to three anchoring anchors in the saddle to ensure isostatic balance in three points, tensioners that must have an excess length at rest and collected enough to make it possible without stopping the upward and downward movement of the rider in the trot (around 15 centimeters except in racecourse or in jump) but that in case of imbalance of the Rider on the chair when moving beyond that excess length at rest exert a reactive tensile force to restore it to its position. This length of the tensioners at rest is necessary due to the rapidity with which the movements of the rider and the horse occur during jogging and that is why it is necessary that the tensioner does not stop the rise and fall of the rider because in case of some braking even if it was minimal in each movement, the result would be that the rider becomes uncomfortable with the horse losing the rhythm necessary to maintain balance on the chair. So that the length of the tensioners does not have a negative effect on the rider in case of lateral fall and prevent the rider from being suspended

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) laterally of the horse on one side if it loses the vertical of the saddle beyond the range of oscillation in which it can recover the vertical by its own means, because if it exceeds that range it would be hanging from the tensioners in the distance extension of the length of the tensioner, it is necessary that the two rear anchors of the tensioners are separated from the vertical of the saddle at least 15 centimeters or the equivalent assigned to the resting length of the tensioner collected and that the fastening loops of the tensioners to the The rider's seat belt should be placed on the belt sideways at the height of the saddle anchor so that the tensioner slack only allows the upward movement of the rider but not the lateral displacement that would be prevented by the tensioner from the side opposite to the displacement. In learning mounts it is sufficient the orientation separation of 15 centimeters of the vertical equivalent to the one that has from the axis of the chair every half of a normal rear eraser, but in high-risk mounts or in jump of obstacles that distance can be greater by it must be necessary for the rider to stand up or stay in a gallop suspension a higher height above the saddle, in which case the rear side anchors must be located on a metal plate or a fixed crossbar in which the anchors are located with a separation with respect to the vertical of the saddle equivalent to the excess length at rest and collected from the rear tensioners, not from the front, because due to the position of the rider inclined on the chair and the shape of it the length of the front tensioner necessary, to prevent braking in the lifting of the rider is much lower than what is needed in the rear tensioners. In cases of high degree of difficulty in which the rear tensioners have to be longer, the best embodiment of the invention for anchoring the tensioners is the use of an aluminum metal plate or other rigid material, Lightweight and sturdy, with an axis shape that adapts to the saddle's inner channel, the channel that is necessary

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) that is used without exception in all the chairs to save the horse's spine, a plate that is installed under pressure on said channel and that ends at a forward end curved up and terminated in a ring that protrudes from the mouth of the channel to the height of the pommel or bridge of the chair and that at its rear end forks in two arms with its curved ends up ending in a ring, also having the curvature of the three arms the effect of snapping the metal plate on the outside of the channel reinforcing the pressure of the shaft on the inner channel, the rear arms being of the necessary length so that the rear rings are separated from each other an orientative distance of fifty centimeters that does not exceed the width of the horse's rump in order to allow excess length at rest and collected from the two rear tensioners of twenty-five centimeters each, taking into account the degree of tolerance a of the normal oscillation of the rider on the vertical of the chair that is around twenty centimeters more is enough to avoid losing the balance in lateral fall, because within that range the rider can recover by his own means the balance on the chair. Each of the tensioners are attached at one end by a carabiner or hook device to the three belt loops of the safety belt and the other end by another hook device similar to three anchors or fastening points attached to or attached to the saddle, of which two are rear anchors (12) to which the two rear tensioners are attached and another a front anchor (13) to which the front tensioner is attached to ensure the rider's isostatic balance at three points and prevent Your fall in any direction.

In addition to the rider's trunk harness, the invention incorporates a safety device into the safety system to prevent the rider from losing the footrest in the stirrup as a frequent occurrence during the learning period, a device consisting of two semi-rigid shirts or covers (14)

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) of the ations (15) or support straps of the stirrups to facilitate the rider's recovery of the stirrup when he loses the support on them of the foot, covers consisting of a wide band of leather or other parallelepiped-shaped material endowed in its longitudinal axis means of a wire guide to keep it extended at all times and that is fastened on itself by closing one of the major bases of the parallelepiped on the other major base by means of square brackets with a length suitable for covering two thirds and covering and joining the two together branches of the straps of the ations of each of the stirrups, covers that are provided with a sailboat strap to adhere at one point to the sailboat surface of the cover of the knee support skirt (16) so that in If the rider is lost, the stirrup will remain in the same position as the saddle of the saddle without wobbling or separating from its normal position due to the movement of the animal in order to allow the rider to quickly find the stirrup with his foot again. Finally the invention adds two covers (16) one for each side skirt of the saddle for fixing the rider's knee, made of leather or other flexible and resistant material that covers each skirt and that is fastened with straps fastening to the strap of the saddle of each side and that each have on the outer face a surface of sailboat or similar material. In addition, the invention includes two knee pads (17) or knee cover pieces to be attached to the skirt covers to be fastened or inlaid to the rider's leg at knee height with a surface on the inside of the sailboat with a suitable size so that when joining the sailboat surface of the skirt covers and the knee pads help the rider to adhere and fix their knees to the saddle having the knee pads on the outer side of the knee a hook to hook a strap (18) that at its other end engages or is anchored in the lock of the main belt of the trunk harness (7) to tighten with the trunk and help the knee to exert adequate pressure on

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) the saddle and to prevent the knee from separating during the riding but being released in case the rider opens the seat belt closure to allow its separation from the saddle in case of fall of the mount, so that the whole of covers of the skirt of the chair and the knee pads help the rider to keep his knees in position and help prevent his fall from the horse in case of loss of balance on the chair and instead do not prevent the separation of the knee from the saddle by exercising a force perpendicular to the surface of the sailboat in case the rider must release the harness and jump from the saddle. SECTOR OF THE TECHNIQUE.- The described invention has industrial application as riding accessories. DRAWINGS.- The following drawings are presented in six figures:

Figure 1 shows a horse rider armed with the trunk harness, attached to three anchors on a leather blanket, with the knee pads and with the holster. The rider has the safety belt closed (1) and has the trunk tie installed with two safety straps (2), the cervical protector with its pectoral fins (3) and the chin protection collar with chin strap (4) ), the spine protector (5) with its protective plates (6) the belt having a front closure with multiple anchorage (7), two rear loops (8) and a front loop (9) that is located at the end front of the belt (10) in which the lock or lock is not installed, the loops being attached to the anchors by means of three tensioners (11) of which two are anchored to two rear anchors (12) and another to one front (13 ) that in the figure they are installed on a leather blanket (20), the portions (15) of the stirrups being grouped by a cover (14) and at the height of the knees the skirt cover with sailboat (16) attached to the cinch of the chair, cover to which the knee pads adhere ( 17) that have a strap from the knee to the waist anchored in the belt closure (18) with a vertical sensor in the saddle (19) attached to the closure

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) of the belt by an electric cable. Figure 2 shows the fastening band to the rear terminal of the two rear anchors (21) and the anterior petral collar or chest (22) for the front anchor. Figure 3 shows the metal plate (23) with the curved front end (24) and the two curved bifurcated rear ends (25) for anchoring the tensioners. Figure 4 shows the two rear levers of rear anchor (26) and the front pectoral collar or chest (22) of front anchor.In Figure 5, the overjacket on the belly (27) is presented for securing the rear anchors and the anterior petral collar or chest (22) for securing the front anchor. Figure 6 shows the crossbar (28) with the belt that crosses the channel (29) terminated in a front ring (30).

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Claims

1. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM intended for the protection of the rider on horseback during learning periods or in high-risk riding through a set of removable harnesses and accessories usable at the rider's choice with all kinds of saddles essentially characterized by being constituted by the following components: a) A three-point restraint harness to prevent the rider from falling to the ground consisting of an abdominal safety belt (1) of sufficient width to prevent rider's abdominal injuries in the event of a fall and a trunk tie formed by two safety braces (2) attached to the belt by means of a front anchor in the belt lock that on the back of the rider is closed above the straps, which are fastened to the rider's body by means of transverse hooks on the chest and the back, the straps being except for the front anchor independent of the main belt of the arn s so that they can be separated from the belt in case it is released if the opening of the belt closure occurs when the front anchor is released braces whose function is to attach a cervical protector and a spine protector to the rider's trunk and that run from the front of the belt to the back through the shoulders of the rider, but that at the height of the shoulders and chest are attached to a rigid cervical protector consisting of a piece with two pectoral fins (3) and a gola (4) supporting the neck around the neck from behind that is held in position on the neck by the effect of the pectoral fins attached to the straps of the straps and by the effect of their attachment to the straps to prevent cervical sprain In case of obstacle jump or sudden start of the horse, gola that tenses increasing its protection of the cervical vertebrae if the tensioner of the front anchor (13) of the safety belt ad attached to the tie-tightening, both straps being on the rider's back attached to a spine protector (5) formed by a set of

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) between two and four plates or more plates articulated with each other by means of a flange or insert in the contact line of each plate with the following (6), which makes it adapt to the flexion of the spine forward but does not allow flexion towards back beyond a certain position to protect the spine, being able to be in number or two plates, one of them protecting the twelve dorsal vertebrae adjusted in shape to the dorsal curve and the other protecting the five vertebrae lumbar and coccyx, sufficient for moderate riding efforts such as those of learning of new riders, or four plates or more plates at least two of them dorsal, another lumbar and another sacral protection of the coccyx to adapt precisely to the spine in cases of strong forward bending for the practice of jumping obstacles or riding high-risk, plates of a rigid material, light and high impact resistance such as Carbon fiber or similar adapted to the dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebrae, the first of the plates located at the base of the cervical protector and each plate also having a padded covering, which in the plate that covers the lumbar sacral area is reinforced that all of them resist and cushion the frontal impacts on the back, protecting the spine of the rider from abrupt bending backwards in case of obstacle jump or fall of the horse and in case of head rider fall on the on the ground or against an obstacle, the set of articulated plates attached to the cervical protector and to the tie-up of the straps deflects the impact load on the rider's shoulders protecting the spine, and in case of impact by falling on the sacral area of the spine The structure of the articulated plates absorbs the impact and distributes it through the fasteners of the braces to the trunk of the reduced rider with the transmission of the impact to the cervical area and avoiding the dislocation of the coccyx, braces that converge in the front part by means of a buckle in a front security lock or lock (7) with sufficient anchors to fix the braces (2) and

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) the straps of section c) (18) capable of instantaneous manual opening, the main harness belt having three fastening loops, two rear (8) and one front (9) equipped with all three of a steel ring, must be installed front loop at that of the front ends (10) of the safety belt in which the safety closure is not installed so that in case of release of said closure by the sensor, the front belt does not lock with the closure, and that they are held by three tensioners or elastic straps (11) that have an excess length in rest state and collected enough to make it possible without stopping the upward and downward movement in the trot but in case of imbalance of the rider on the chair when moving more beyond that excess length at rest they exert a reactive tensile force to restore it to its position, tensioners that are joined by one of its ends by means of a musquet no hooking device to the three loops of the seat belt and at the other end by another hooking device similar to three anchors or fastening points attached to or attached to the saddle, two rear anchors (12) each separated from the vertical of the saddle the same distance that supposes the excess length of the elastic tensioners in rest state and collected to avoid that in case of lateral fall the rider is suspended in the side case in which a distance would be separated from the vertical one equivalent to that length, rear anchors to which the two rear tensioners and a front anchor (13) are attached to guarantee the rider's isostatic balance at three points and prevent their fall in any direction. b) Two semi-rigid shirts or covers (14) of the stirrups (15) of the stirrups to facilitate the rider's recovery of the stirrup consisting of a wide band of leather or other parallelepiped shaped material provided on its middle longitudinal axis of a guide of wire to keep it extended at all times and that is fastened on itself closing one of

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) the major bases of the parallelepiped on the other major base by means of square brackets with a length suitable for covering two thirds and joining together the two branches of the straps of the ations of each of the stirrups, covers that are equipped with a sailboat strip for adhere at one point to the sailboat face of the skirt cover of section c) (16) so that if the rider is lost the stirrup is maintained in the same position as the saddle skirt without wobbling or separating from its normal position due to the movement of the animal in order to allow the rider to quickly find the stirrup with his foot again. c) Two covers (16) one for each side skirt of the saddle for fixing the rider's knee, made of leather or other flexible and resistant material that cover each skirt and that are each fastened with straps fastening to the strap on each side and each one on the outer face has a sailboat surface or similar material and in addition to its connection to the skirt covers two knee pads (17) to be fastened or embedded to the rider's leg at knee height with a surface on the inner side of the sailboat with an adequate size so that when joining the sailboat surface of the skirts and knee pads help the rider to adhere and fix their knees to the saddle having the knee pads by the outer side of the knee a hook to engage a strap (18) that at the other end is hooked or anchored in the main belt lock of section a) (7) to tighten with the trunk and help the knee to exercise the adequate pressure on the saddle and to prevent the knee from separating during the riding but being released in case the rider opens the seat belt fastener to allow its separation from the saddle in case of the fall of the mount, so that the set of covers of the skirt of the chair and the knee pads help the rider to keep his knees in position and contribute to prevent his fall from the horse in case of loss of balance on the chair and instead do not prevent the separation of the

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) The knee of the saddle exerting a force perpendicular to the surface of the sailboat in case the rider must release the harness and jump from the saddle.

2. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 essentially characterized in that the safety closure of the belt and harness described in section a) (7) is capable of opening not only manual but automatic by means of a vertical sensor (19) installed on the saddle when it acquires an inclination on the axis greater than 45 degrees or another agreed to prevent its opening by accidental movements but making it possible in case of fall of the horse by freeing the rider from the main belt of the harness and separating from the belt and the chair of mount the tie with the braces that hold the cervical and spine protectors keeping the protectors in position on the rider's trunk to protect it in the event that the horse finally falls.

3. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 essentially characterized in that the tensioners attached by one of its ends to the belt loops of the safety belt are joined at the other end by means of a carabiner or other hooking device to three eyebolts. steel installed in a leather blanket (20) or other flexible and resistant material, two of them at the back angles and another one at the midpoint of the lower front base of the blanket that is shaped like a parallelepiped that is held to the straps by means of an eyelet or loop, with a hollow in its center to lighten its material and adjusted in size to the projection in plan of the saddle, blanket that is placed at the time of the mount between the baskets of the saddle and blanket or horse sweatshirt.

4. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 essentially characterized in that the tensioners attached by one of its ends to the belt loops of the safety belt are joined at the other end by a carabiner or other

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) hitching device to three steel rings, the two rear loops to two other rings installed on a leather strip or band or other similar flexible and resistant material, (21) fastened on the rear saddle of the saddle turning around and adapting its shape to the profile of the chair in section and the front loop to another ring installed in front of the saddle or front bridge of the saddle on a leather strap fastened to the horse's neck. (22)

5. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 essentially characterized in that the tensioners attached by one of its ends to the belt loops of the safety belt are joined at the other end by means of a carabiner or other hook-up device to three eyebolts. steel installed for high-risk mounting cases where high-strength and high-strength anchors are required, at the leading front and rear ends of the saddle of an aluminum deck or other lightweight and sturdy metal (23) with a longitudinal axis adapted to the interior channel of the chair that saves the horse's spine because it is of a minimum orientation thickness not exceeding 3 mm to maintain the function of said channel, the front end being curved upwards, and finished in a steel ring ( 24) and the rear end being forked in two arms (25) whose ends are curved upwards each ending in a ring, fulfilling the curvature The function of fixing the plate to the saddle under pressure and the two rear arms being separated from each other is a distance equivalent to the width of the horse's rump.

6. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 and 4 essentially characterized in that the tensioners attached by one of its ends to the belt loops of the safety belt are joined at the other end by means of a carabiner or other three-hitch device steel rings, two rear and one front, in the case of the rear tensioners to two rear rings fixed on two aluminum levers (26) or

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) another rigid and lightweight rigid material curved at its end to avoid possible punctures to the rider and with a return spring contained in metal boxes attached each to each side of the rear saddle of the saddle by means of a leather strap or band or other similar flexible and resistant material fastened on the back of the chair by turning and adapting its length to the profile of the chair in section with the levers having a length and a path to a stop of the metal box sufficient to allow the rider to climb and lower during jogging or stay in suspension during the gallop but which prevent its lateral or forward fall due to being the metal or other rigid material levers and the effect of the stop being attached to the front belt tensioner to another ring installed in front of the knob or front saddle bridge on a leather strap fastened to the horse's neck (22).

7. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 essentially characterized in that the tensioners attached by one of its ends to the belt loops of the safety belt are joined at the other end by means of a carabiner or other hook-up device to three eyebolts. steel, two rear and one front, in the case of the tensioners of the two rear loops to two rear rings fixed on an over hook (27) that passes through the belly of the horse that in addition to being a means of clamping the rings, when passing by the horse's belly it produces the effect of inhibiting the animal of poor dressage or nervous temperament if the rider tenses the tensioners at the moment of losing his balance, and in the case of the front strap to a ring installed on a strap on the neck of the horse (22).

8. EQUIPMENT SAFETY SYSTEM according to claim 1 essentially characterized in that the tensioners attached by one of its ends to the belt loops of the safety belt are joined at the other end by means of a carabiner or other hooking device to three eyebolts steel, two of them rear and one front, both

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) backs fixed to the ends of a rear metal crossbar (28) to the saddle channel, bar at whose center a strap (29) runs through the chair channel and whose front end protrudes through the front mouth of the chair channel with a ring (30) which hooks the front tensioner.

9. EQUIPMENT SAFETY PROCEDURE for the protection of the horse rider essentially characterized by the use of a sequence of steps to be carried out on the saddle and on the harness or harness of the rider: a) Install a lock on a rider's belt with multiple anchors capable of instantaneous opening by means of a button in case of the horse's fall, a lock in which two braces are anchored that pass through the rider's shoulders to his sacral area below the belt in the back, braces that hold on the shoulders and the rider's neck a rigid piece of cervical support and protection of the neck and on the back of the rider a set of padded plates articulated to each other for protection of the spine, incorporating three belt loops with rings that join three elastic tensioners of adjustable length that are anchored by carabiners or hooks two of them to two anchors on the back sides of the saddle attached to the baskets by straps, metal plates or overshoes and another front tensioner to a collar of the mount that holds a ring guaranteeing the isostatic balance on the chair. b) Install sailboat pieces on the inner faces of the rider's knees that are attached to sailboat pieces on the saddle's skirt and attach the knees to the belt using a strap attached to the outer face of each knee that is anchored in the belt lock for fixing the knee to its position but which is released by activating the opening of the belt lock. c) Cover the covers or suspension straps of the stirrups by means of covers and join them

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23) by means of a sailboat strip to the sailboat piece of the chair skirt to fix the stirrups in their position and allow them to be recovered with the foot in case the rider loses the stirrup.

REPLACEMENT SHEET (Rule 23)