DE102011101030A1 - Headcollar e.g. leather belt headcollar, for horse, has nose belt whose ends are connected with throat belt parts over grasp halves, respectively, where grasp halves are interlaced with one another and removable from one another - Google Patents

Abstract

The headcollar has a nose belt (10) centrally disconnected in the region of the horse jaw such that left and right ends of the nose belt are connected over left and right grasp halves (1, 2) with left and right throat belt parts (11, 12), respectively. The grasp halves are interlaced with one another and removable from one another. The grasp halves connected to each other in a positive fit manner, so that the grasp halves are not movable in any direction in an interlaced condition. The nose belt, the grasp halves and a neck belt (13) are reinforced by inserted plastic strips.

Description

Halters for horses are created and removed several times a day in modern horse husbandry because, when the horse is in the box or in the playpen, there is a risk of injury from hanging halters, but the halter is necessary for leading onto the paddock or to the cleaning place. Neck straps are also used which are safer for the horse and therefore often stay with the horse; nevertheless, for controlled guidance, halters with a low hitch point and the corresponding action of the noseband on the sensitive horse's mouth are also needed in addition to neck straps.

Halters for horses can be roughly divided into halters that are commonly used in western riding and halters made of straps, either nylon or leather. Knitted halters are simpler in the material, but more complex to handle. That is why belt halters are preferred for the most part.

The patent US 5,086,511 The halter introduced by Purdy in 1992 shows all the components of the traditional belt holster, but the novelty is that the noseband can be opened separately with a snap hook. The disadvantage, however, is that for applying and removing this halter compared to the usual Riemenhalftern an additional handle, namely the opening or closing of the noseband is necessary. However, the relative improvement for the horse did not outweigh the cumbersome handling, so this solution was not accepted on the market. The U.S. Patent 1,227,440 by Hoffman from 1917 shows a rigid frame made of round steel, which can be opened in the jaw area of the horse. It is obviously intended as a means of restraint horses and is at least today, probably for animal welfare reasons, no longer in use and would not fulfill the function of a usual horse stall. The U.S. Patent 964,947 Varney, 1910, is open in the throat area, but the throats and strap over the nasal bone meet in a ring on either side of the throat of the horse; the hitch for the lead rope is as high as a neck strap, so the modern neck strap is the easier solution for this need.

The vast majority of commercially available belt halters have a closed noseband; for a little more money, you can have more comfortable halters with a buckle on the noseband, but these buckles are not used to open the noseband when putting on the halter; they only serve to adjust the nose strap length.

It remains to be noted that all commercially available belt halters are created with a closed noseband. It is necessary to "thread" the horse's mouth into this noseband. The halter is then pulled up in the direction of the horse's ears, whereby the noseband, which must not be too far, can only be pulled up to a limited extent on the wedge-shaped horse's head, so that the neckband has to be striped over the ears. The retraction of the ears is not pleasing to the horses, although most horses get used to it. But even brave horses do not keep their noses steady and threading can always take a few extra seconds. Young horses, who first have to get used to the halter, can offer considerable resistance. Especially young stallions often bite playfully into the noseband and it takes some skill or just some time again, until you have put on the snapping mouth over the halter. Difficult horses fight against putting on the halter and they try to elude the threading of the muzzle, and once the noseband is around the mouth, these horses have the opportunity to defend themselves against the retraction of the ears through the neckband by they pick up their heads. Sensitive horses can be spoiled in this regard if, during the habituation phase, the procedure is too violent. Also the stripes over the ears when taking off the halter is not pleasant to the horses and some horses take the neck up again and hinder the work of the horse owner. In large horse stables, the time for putting on and taking off the halters is summed up by the cumbersome and, for the horses, unpleasant handling of the conventional halters.

The inventive task is therefore to develop a halter for horses, which causes no unpleasant sensations when putting on and taking off for the horse and thus provoked from the outset no defense reaction of the horse. In addition, the creation and removal of the halter should be faster and more convenient, so with less and easier handles can be done.

The problem is solved by the features listed in the main claim.

The principle of the invention is that noseband and Kehlriemen be opened and closed together. This is possible in that a rigid connection between the nose and throat belt is made, that the rigid connection consists of two mutually form-locking, entangled handle halves and that the The noseband and the throats are interrupted centrally in the jaw area of the horse; the left end of the broken noseband is permanently connected to the left end of the throat belt via the left half of the handle, and the respective right strap ends are connected to the right half of the handle in the same manner. The neck strap and the throat belt parts are so stiffened that they do not collapse when the halter is put on the horse. At the lower ends of the handle shells in each case an Enhaköse is integrated, which form a common eyelet for a towing hook in the closed inventive halter.

In order to put on the halter according to the invention, or rather to hang it up, the separate halves of the handle are each taken in one hand, so that the perineal belt arches upwards in a curve. You stand as usual left on the side of the horse's neck, and now holds the halter over the horse's head, without having touched the nose or the ears of the horse. Then lower the halter with the neckband on the neck. All parts of the inventive halter are now already in the right place with the first contact with the horse's head. To close a solid mandrel is threaded at the lower end of the left half of the handle in a lower eyelet at the lower end of the right half handle and pressing together the mating handle halves snap a spring mandrel at the upper end of the left handle half in an upper eyelet of the right handle half; The inventive halter is thus securely closed. The hands of the user remain from detecting the inventive halter until it closes on the handle halves; In contrast to the conventional halters, no multiple grasping is necessary, resulting in a gain in comfort and time. The horses hold still because the halter according to the invention is laid up very quickly and without any irritation. Even by z. B. forcible donning conventional halter traumatized horses, the inventive halter can hang up without resistance.

The removal of the halter is correspondingly much easier and horse-friendly than conventional. The spring pin on the left half of the handle is preferably retracted by a spring pin slide with your thumb and the two handle halves dissolve without further action from each other. The safe divergence of the handle halves is preferably achieved in that the right handle half is bent slightly outwards in the longitudinal direction and is therefore held in the closed state in slight spring tension. When the spring pin is withdrawn, the handle halves jump apart by the spring tension released by itself, with the solid mandrel reliably dissolves from the lower eyelet of the right handle half. Conversely, as when placing the inventive halter is grasped with one hand, the corresponding handle halves and lifts the inventive halter up and then forward away, so that it can be taken away again without touching the horse's ears or further contact with the rest of the horse's head.

The stiffening of the neck strap and the noseband is interrupted in the middle, so that the halter can be folded flat and hung to save space. The kinks on the noseband and the neckband are used for a possibility of size adjustment. Namely, the noseband and the backbone of two sections, which are connected by a Nasenriemenöse or a Genickriemenöse. With the help of a Velcro strap through the respective eyelets, the respective sections can be extended or shortened. The Velcro surfaces are located respectively on the inner sides of the nosepiece and neckpiece sections, so that when strong train the Velcro connections accordingly strong compressed and hold all the more stable. For extreme train z. As in panic the nose strap eyelet or the neck loops are intended as predetermined breaking points and dimensioned accordingly.

To the inventive halter can also be a correspondingly modified market fly network z. B. be attached with Velcro. The big advantage is that the fly net can remain as required according to the invention halter. Thus, it is not necessary, as usual, to release and remove the fly net and attach and fix it specifically, but the fly net can be regarded as part of the holster according to the invention and can be placed with it in the manner already described and removed again. The time savings for the horse owner is in this case already significant in a few horses.

In summary, it can be said that the halter according to the invention makes work easier and, on the whole, significantly saves the working time of the horse owner, and that it means effective protection for the horse, especially for the young and sensitive horse. Without significant additional costs and without conversion problems, progress in horse management could easily be implemented.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

Left half handle

2

Right handle half

3

solid thorn

4

spring arbor

5

Spring arbor slide

6

lower spine eyelet

7

upper spine eyelet

8th

hook-in eyelets

9

with sling

10

noseband

11

left throat belt part

12

right throat belt part

13

neck strap

14

Nasenriemenöse

15

Genickriemenöse

16

bevel

17

left Velcro flap

18

right velcro strap

19

Horsehead

drawing Description

1 shows the essential components of the inventive halter in the open state, with the left handle half ( 1 ), which with the left Kehl belt part ( 11 ) and the noseband ( 10 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ), which with the right Kehl belt part ( 12 ) and the noseband ( 10 ) connected is. The noseband ( 10 ) is in the middle of the nose strap loop ( 14 ) interrupted, as is the neck strap ( 13 ) in the middle of the neck strap eyelet ( 15 ) interrupted. The hooked eyelets ( 8th ) are on the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) are formed.

2 shows the inventive halter in the closed state on the horse's head ( 19 ), with the noseband ( 10 ) on the nose of the horse's head ( 19 ) and the neckband ( 13 ) at the neck of the horse's head ( 19 ). The right half of the handle ( 2 ) and the left half of the handle ( 1 ) are entangled, so that from this perspective essentially only the left half of the handle ( 1 ) can be seen in the foreground. The hooked eyelets ( 8th ) of the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) lie against each other and thus form a common Einhaköse.

3 shows how, when putting on the halter according to the invention, the horse's head ( 19 ) with the neck strap ( 13 ) on the ears with the noseband ( 10 ) must be forcibly touched on the nose. The user raises the holster according to the invention with the left hand on the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right hand on the right half of the handle ( 2 ), so that due to the rigidity of the left Kehl belt part ( 11 ) and the right Kehl belt part ( 12 ) and the stiffness of the belt ( 13 ) the neckband ( 13 ) forms a standing arch, which finally reaches the horse's head ( 19 ) is lowered.

4 shows the essential components of the left handle half ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) in the threaded state, ie, the fixed mandrel ( 3 ) on the left half of the handle ( 1 ) is already in the lower thorn ( 6 ) introduced. If then the left handle half ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) are pressed together, the spring-loaded displaceable spring mandrel ( 4 ) in the left half of the handle ( 1 ) on the bevel ( 16 ) of the right half of the handle ( 2 ) and is pushed back. Once left handle half ( 1 ) and right handle half ( 2 ) lie completely against each other, the spring thorn ( 4 ) in the upper spine ( 7 ) and holds the left handle half ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) entangled. In this state, the hook eyes ( 8th ) a common eyelet into the z. B. a lead rope can be hooked. By z. B. with the thumb with the spring thorn ( 4 ) firmly connected spring-mandrel slide ( 5 ) retracts the entanglement. 4 also shows how the handle halves with the noseband ( 10 ) and the throat belt parts ( 11 and 12 ) via the belt eyelets ( 9 ) are connected.

5 shows the detail view of the size adjustment using the example of the belt ( 15 ). The left Velcro flap ( 17 ) is through the neck strap eyelet ( 15 ) threaded and cuffed. The right Velcro flap ( 18 ) is threaded but still solved.

QUOTES INCLUDE IN THE DESCRIPTION

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Cited patent literature

• US 5086511 [0003]
• US 1227440 [0003]
• US 964947 [0003]

Claims (8)

Halter for horses with noseband, neckband and throats, characterized in that the noseband ( 10 ) is interrupted centrally in the area of the horse's jaw, that the left end of the noseband ( 10 ) over the left half of the handle ( 1 ) with the left Kehl belt part ( 11 ), that the right end of the noseband ( 10 ) over the right handle half ( 2 ) with the right Kehl belt part ( 12 ), and that the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) are interlocked and can be solved again. Halter for horses according to claim 1, characterized in that the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) fit one another in a form-fitting manner, so that they are not movable relative to one another in the folded state. Halter for horses according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that at the lower end of the left half of the handle ( 1 ) a solid mandrel ( 3 protruding into a correspondingly formed lower thorn ( 6 ) at the lower end of the right handle half ( 2 ) and that at the upper end of the right handle half ( 2 ) an upper thorn ( 7 ) is formed, in which a displaceable in its longitudinal axis spring pin ( 4 ) in the left half of the handle ( 1 ), pushed out by spring force, can engage, and that this spring thorn ( 4 ) on the outside of the left half of the handle ( 1 ) spring cam follower ( 5 ) can be withdrawn. Halter for horses according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that in each case at the lower end of the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) a hooked loop ( 8th ) is formed, so that in the crossed state, the two Einhakösen ( 8th ) lie together and together form an eyelet. Halter for horses according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the left half of the handle ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ) can be entangled against a slight spring force, by a spring element between the left handle half ( 1 ) and the right half of the handle ( 2 ), or in that z. B. the right handle half ( 2 ) is slightly bent in the longitudinal direction bent outwards. Halter for horses according to claims 1 to 5, characterized in that both the noseband ( 10 ) like the neck strap ( 13 ) consist of halves of equal length, each with a left Velcro flap ( 17 ) and a right Velcro flap ( 18 ) through the nose strap eyelet ( 14 ) or neck strap eyelet ( 15 Threaded, connected. Halter for horses according to claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the noseband ( 10 ), the left Kehl belt part ( 11 ), the right Kehl belt part ( 12 ) and the neckband ( 13 ) are stiffened, z. B. by sewn plastic strips. Halter for horses according to claims 1 to 7, characterized in that on the noseband ( 10 ) and on the neck strap ( 13 ) Fasteners for connection to a fly net, z. As Velcro parts are attached.

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