WO2003043851A2

WO2003043851A2 - Provision for safely loading a horse into a trailer

Info

Publication number: WO2003043851A2
Application number: PCT/NL2002/000738
Authority: WO
Inventors: Astrid Sophia Maria Pennekamp-Rietveld
Original assignee: Pennekamp-Rietveld Astrid Soph
Priority date: 2001-11-19
Filing date: 2002-11-15
Publication date: 2003-05-30
Also published as: NL1019390C1; AU2002343246A1; WO2003043851A3

Abstract

The invention relates to a provision which enables to lead a horse (3) safely into a trailer (1) with the aim to make the horse (3) walk by controlled, not hurting electric surge voltages on bordering port ribbons (7, 8, 7a, 7b) onto the narrow loading flap (2) into the trailer (1), so that it is avoided that the horse (3), willingly or not, steps next to the loading flap (2) and hurts himself.

Description

PROVISION FOR SAFELY LOADING A HORSE INTO A TRAILER

The present invention relates to a provision which enables to lead a horse safely into a trailer. Especially with narrow trailers which are meant to transport only one horse it is of importance to lead the horse in such a way that stepping next to the loading flap and thus hurting itself is avoided.

In the patent literature many systems are described to keep animals locked up within certain zones. The technique mostly used is the one with an electrified wiring system. Also for rounding up pigs for transport of livestock, an electric device is known which gives short, not damaging surge voltages to the animals to round them up in a certain direction. Here, it generally concerns a group or herd of animals and it involves several people.

The American patent document US 6257558 describes a provision to protect an entrance gate for animals against deformation or bending with a reel in which electrified wire is wound up and which can be put under voltage from the reel. However, this is not an overall provision for leading animals, mainly horses, into trailers. The mentioned patent is a provision meant to protect the gate. The aim of the present invention concerns to lead a horse onto the narrow loading flap by means of controlled, not damaging surge voltages on boarding lines with the aim to avoid that the horse, willingly or not, steps next to the loading flap and hurt himself.

The preferred construction of the invention will be described by way of example, and with reference to the accompanying drawing. In which: Fig. 1 shows a top view of the placement of the trailer, horse, helper and persons that border the space wherein the horse is forced to tread the loading flap;

Fig. 2 shows a self-winding double port ribbon set with housing and electric connection for a second single port ribbon as well as a manual electrified wire battery set; Fig. 3 shows a cross-section of the double port ribbon set in a wound-up position; Fig. 4 shows in two projections a self-winding port ribbon with housing and connection for an electrified wire battery as well as an insulated handle; Fig. 5 shows the placement of figure 1, in which the manual electrified wire battery set has its own earthing and two equal single port ribbons are used as indicated in figure 4; and Fig. 6 shows the placement of figure 1, in which the manual electrified wire battery set has been replaced by an automatic electrified wire battery to a trailer with its own earthing and using two equal single port ribbons .

At the side of the road 22 with shoulder 21 stands a trailer 1 in which a horse 3 must be loaded. The loading flap 2 is also the closing door of the trailer 1 and is just as narrow as the trailer.

The coach 4 has two helpers 5 and 6 which each operate a port ribbon 7 and 8. Helper 5 operates with an insulated handle 9 a single port ribbon 7 which is interwoven with conducting wire and which via the housing of the ribbon 7 and the insulated cable 10, which is lead provisionally or definitively over the trailers roof, is connected electrically with the also conducting port ribbon 8 of the double port ribbon set 11 at the other side of the trailer. The helper 6 has a manual electrified wire battery set provided with an insulated handle, with which by manually operating a button or trigger 13 an electrified pulse can be given on the electrified wire exit of the handset 12. This electrified wire exit is coupled via the ribbon handle 8a to the port ribbon 8 of the double port ribbon set 11. The manual electrified wire set 12 also contains a wind-up earth ribbon 14 that can be unwound for several meters out of the ribbon holder 15 on the manual set 11 and which is coupled with a metal clip 16 and the earth ribbon handle 17a to the earth ribbon 17 of the double port ribbon set 11.

The double port ribbon set 11 has a double reel 18, on which one conducting port ribbon 8 with a width of approximately three centimetres and one conducting earth ribbon 17 with a width of approximately half a centimetre are wound. Both ribbons have the same thickness, so that both ribbons have the same length when they are uncoiled. The double reel 18 insulates both ribbons in relation to each other for the electrified wire surge voltage, which can be put on the broad port ribbon 8. The reel side 18a is conductive, so that the surge voltage of the port ribbon 8 with a slide contact and cable 19 can be brought outside the housing of the double port ribbon set 11 to be switched on to the port ribbon 7 at the other side of the trailer 1 via the cable 10 provided with insulating covering.

The reel side 18b is also conductive, so that earthing of the earthing ribbon 17 with a slide contact and cable 20 can be brought outside the housing of the double port ribbon set 11 to be connected to the earthing pin 23 in the shoulder 21 of the road 22.

When the helpers 5 and 6 move inwards or towards each other according to the arrows in figure 1, the horse 3 shall be stimulated to walk forwards onto the loading flap 2 as soon as the helper 6 operates the manual set 12 with which an electric pulse by means of the electrified wire shall prickle the horses rear flanks.

The risk that a horse will step next to the loading flap 2 and hurt himself is greatly reduced with this provision.

A variant to this provision is that the double port ribbon set 11 is not used, but replaced by a single port ribbon 7a and in which the manual electrified wire battery set 12 has its own earthing with an auxiliary cable 24 and earthing pin 23 in the road 22 or shoulder 21. This solution is indicated in figure 5.

It is also possible to use a standard electrified wire battery 25 that gives electric pulses to the wires and which is mounted to the trailer 1 and that both single port ribbons 7a and 7b are fed via the auxiliary cable 26 and in which the battery 25 is earthed with an auxiliary cable 24 and earthing pin 23 in the road 22 or shoulder 21. This solution is indicated in figure 6. However, this solution is less favourable because the electric pulses of the electrified wire are given spontaneously if the horse accidentally touches the port ribbons 7a or 7b, which can lead to a frightening effect on the horse, at a moment that it is not necessary or even unwished. Finally it has to be emphasized, that the above description constitutes a preferred embodiment of the present invention and that further variations and modifications are still possible without departing the scope of this patent description.

Claims

1. Provision for safely loading a horse into a trailer by using two self-winding port ribbons and a manually operated electrified wire battery set and in which both port ribbons, with inside electric conducting interwoven wires, are electrically interconnected by means of an insulated cable, characterized in that, one of the port ribbon housings or port ribbon sets (11) contains two ribbons, being a broader (8) electrified ribbon and a thinner also conducting earthing ribbon (17) which are both separately insulated wound-up in one housing, and can be uncoiled separately insulated out of the port ribbon housing or set (11) and have equal thickness', so that while pulling out the port ribbon the earthing ribbon (17) is uncoiled over the same length, and in which the helper

(6) whom operates the double port ribbon (11) and operates a manually electrified wire battery set (12) of which the exit of the electrified wire is coupled to the broader electrified ribbon (8) and that the several meters uncoiling earthing wire (14) is coupled by means of a metal clip (16) to a thinner earthing ribbon (17) of the double port ribbon that is earthed by means of an auxiliary ribbon (20) and an earhting pin (23) in the shoulder (21) of the road (22), so that the earthing ribbon (17) is always in contact with the ground on which the helpers and the horse are standing and in which the mentioned helper (6) can apply an electric pulse on the port ribbon (8) which works as an electrified wire, by operating a trigger (13) , which pulse is also transferred through the insulated connecting cable (10) over the trailer (1) to the single port ribbon

(7) at the other side of the trailer (1) .

2. Provision for safely loading a horse (3) into a trailer (1) by using two self-winding port ribbons (7, 8; 7a, 7b) and a manually operated electrified wire battery set (12) and in which both port ribbons (7, 8; 7a, 7b), in which conducting wires are interwoven, are electrically interconnected by means of a cable (10) with insulated covering, characterized in that, the manually electrified wire battery set (12) itself is earthed by means of an auxiliary cable (14) and an earthing pin (16) in the shoulder (21) of the road (22) .

3. Provision of safely loading a horse (3) into a trailer (1) by using a manual electrified wire battery set (12), characterized in that, two self-winding port ribbons (7, 8; 7a, 7b) in which conducting wires are interwoven and which are provided with electric insulated lead-throughs with which the port ribbons can be electrified, are applied on both sides of the trailer (1) and are coupled to each other by means of an insulated electric cable (10) and to the manual electrified wire battery set (12), which is earthed by means of an auxiliary cable (24) and an earthing pin (23) in the shoulder (21) of the road (22) .