WO2007144094A1

WO2007144094A1 - Horse trailer comprising water troughs

Info

Publication number: WO2007144094A1
Application number: PCT/EP2007/004982
Authority: WO
Inventors: Friedrich W. Heinzl
Original assignee: Heinzl Friedrich W
Priority date: 2006-06-12
Filing date: 2007-06-05
Publication date: 2007-12-21
Also published as: DE102006027467A1; EP2026992A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a horse trailer (1) comprising a box (4) mounted on an undercarriage and comprising a floor (5), a front wall (6), two lateral walls (7, 8), a rear closable loading opening (9), and a saddle compartment (13) arranged in a lower front region of the box (4) and protruding into the box (4). Said saddle compartment comprises a covering surface (13) which separates the saddle compartment on the top thereof from the inside of the cabin. A self-service water trough (20) is arranged in or on the upper side of the covering surface (15) of the saddle compartment, which faces the inside of the cabin.

Description

Horse trailer with water potions

The invention relates to a horse trailer with a arranged on a chassis cabin (often called "loading case") with a bottom, a front end wall, two side walls and a rear, closable loading opening and arranged in a front of the cabin, in the interior of the Cabin protruding saddle chamber with a lid surface, which separates the saddle chamber upwards from the interior.

Horse trailers of the type mentioned above can usually serve to transport up to two horses. These are usually side by side with the head in the direction of the front end wall. For this purpose, they are led in through the loading opening from behind into the horse trailer and then closed the loading opening with a suitable door, at least in a lower area, so that the horses can not get out of the horse trailer. Usually, this is a tailgate, which can be folded down and used as a loading ramp at the same time. In most horse trailers, a tack room is arranged in the front area, which is separated by a partition wall from the cabin in which the horses are located. This saddle chamber is either through a door in the partition from the inside - d. H. from the cabin of the horse trailer - or accessible through another external door.

If the horses are transported over long distances and therefore need to spend more time in the horse trailer, it is necessary to provide the horses within the horse trailer with food and water. This feeding then takes place inside a front interior part of the horse trailer. In some of the horses very comfortable vehicles, as in the horse trailer of the type mentioned, the saddle chamber is not led upwards, but is located only in a lower region and has a lid surface, which separates the saddle chamber upwards from the interior , This cover surface is in a height, so that for most commonly transported in such trailers horses such. B. Sport horses with a stick of more than 100 cm, the food on the lid surface can be deposited and the horse comes to the food, without having to lower the head too far. This has the advantage, among other things, that the horse's head can be tied so short that, for example, it could not reach a standing horse with its mouth and injure it. On the other hand, the horse can still Quem reach the food. A shorter tie-in of the horse at head height also has the advantage that in any position of the horse's head the tying knit sags to the ground and the horse can get into it, which could also lead to injuries of the horse.

A problem, however, is still the soaking of the horse while driving. If the horse is fed with dry feed in the trailer, it is desirable to provide the horse with sufficient water during the journey. Previous horse trailer offer this, however, no way. The owners of the horse trailers therefore often provide the horses with a bucket of water during the breaks in the feeding area. Alternatively, there are already isolated vehicles in which a corresponding water bowl or a water trough is screwed to the partition to the tack room. This potion is then filled before the ride or during breaks with a certain amount of water. This has two disadvantages. On the one hand, such a potion projecting from the saddle compartment into the interior of the cabin increases the risk of injury to the horses, if exceptionally a more extreme maneuver is required because of a suddenly changed traffic situation. The horses can then be thrown very rudely against the protruding water trough. Incidentally, these drinks can not be chosen arbitrarily large, so that the water supply is severely limited. In addition, with a stronger cornering water can slosh out, so that then the potions has only a residual amount of water. Ie. The horses will then only have a fraction of the total amount of water available.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved horse trailer of the type mentioned, in which a fresh water supply for horses is permanently ensured even while driving.

This object is achieved in that in the lid surface of the tack room a self-service water drinker is integrated.

Self-service water troughs are known per se from the stable area for a long time. In addition, horse drinks have long been in large horse transporters, in which several horses are usually transported transversely to the direction of travel and in which the horses can be supplied at the destination as in a mobile stall. At such self-service Wassertränken is an operable by the animal to be soaked trigger switch over which a valve or the like can be opened so that water flows into a bowl of water of the potions. Usually this is a pressure plate, which is mounted directly above the water bowl so that the animal, as soon as it holds the mouth in the water trough, presses the pressure plate so that the water flow is triggered.

By installing such a self-service water trough in a horse trailer can be skilfully ensured a permanent fresh water supply of horses during transport, with the integration into the top surface of the tack room even with very risky maneuvers a risk of injury through the water trough is almost completely avoided.

The dependent claims and the following description each contain particularly advantageous embodiments and further developments of the invention.

In principle, the self-service water drinker can have a water dish, which is screwed onto the cover surface of the saddle compartment, for example, or inserted in a hole in the cover surface of the saddle compartment and screwed or glued. Particularly preferably, however, the water trough is integrated directly into the lid surface of the saddle compartment. For this purpose, the self-service water drinker on a preferably seamlessly molded into the lid surface water bowl. This has production advantages. Thus, for example, the lid surface can be produced as a plastic part with integrated water bowl in a working process. Such a molded-in water bowl, in contrast to a water bowl which has been embedded in and fixed in an opening of the lid surface, also has the advantage that there are no seams through which water spilling over the edge of the water bowl could drip into the saddle chamber. In this case, the water dish is preferably designed as a simple depression in the lid surface. Alternatively, however, the water dish can also be formed by a protruding upward from the lid surface, for example, annular bead or the like.

A water inlet pipe for the potions can z. B. protrude immediately upwards from the lid surface and be curved over the water bowl, that the water flows from the water inlet directly into the water bowl. However, in a region adjacent to the water bowl, the lid surface particularly preferably has an elevation from which to the water surface. serschale out a short water inlet protrudes. This construction has the advantage that no longer thin objects, such as a pipe, protrude upwards from the lid surface, which could be a risk of injury in extreme driving maneuvers. The survey is - preferably formed with gentle transitions to the lid surface - also directly into the lid surface.

The water inlet is preferably connected to a water tank arranged in the horse trailer. In order to provide the horse with fresh water even during longer periods, for example in waiting during a tournament or the like, the water inlet can also be connected to a water connection element, which is for example firmly mounted on the horse trailer and to which an external water supply can be connected , Preferably, it is also possible to connect such a water connection element on the trailer with the water tank to fill this convenient.

In principle, however, it is also possible to connect the water inlet to the water trough only with the water connection element for the external water supply. In such a trailer then while a ride even no fresh water supply is possible, so that a transported horse while driving can not absorb water. However, once the trailer is turned off, the horse can easily be supplied with fresh water by connecting the external water supply to the water connection element. This construction may be useful, for example, in horses in which even while driving even drinking water z. B. should be prevented for medical reasons. Preferably, a valve which can be operated by the caregiver of the horse can also be located in a feed line between inlet and tank or water connection element for such purposes. Likewise, a pump needed for the water supply may also be provided by the supervisor e.g. be deactivated via an easily accessible switch.

The water inlet or the elevation, from which protrudes the water inlet, are preferably located in one of the water bowl from the front wall of the horse trailer facing area of the lid surface. Alternatively, the survey or the water supply can also be arranged laterally, ie right and left of the water bowl in the lid surface. However, the preferred arrangement towards the front wall has the advantage that the water bowl for the transported horses is easily accessible from all sides. The water inlet has in a preferred embodiment, a flexible tail, which is so coupled with a water flow into the water bowl switching element, such as a valve or a pump switch, that during operation of the water trough when moving the flexible end from a rest position, a water supply he follows. The horse then needs only with the mouth to touch the end of the water inlet and thus receives the desired fresh water.

In principle, the water drinker can be arranged in any area on or in the lid surface. However, the water trough is particularly preferably arranged in a region on or near the longitudinal axis of the horse trailer, i. H. in a middle front area, so that when transporting two horses standing next to each other, both can comfortably reach the same water trough. In addition, it is also possible to assign each stand its own water trough. Thus, for example, two water drenchers can be arranged next to each other in the central region and it could extend from an intermediate, elevated area on the two water bowls of the water troughs each have a water inlet. Likewise, the water troughs but also each outside, d. H. in as far as possible right or left area on the lid surface of the tack chamber, be arranged.

Preferably, a feed trough is formed in the lid surface in addition to the water trough for the horse easily accessible. It is particularly preferred if, in addition to a centrally arranged water trough in the lid surface of the saddle chamber on both sides in each case a feeding trough is arranged. This means that each horse then has its own feeding trough, so that exactly the intended amount of feed for the horse can be provided. In addition, hooks can be arranged in the horse trailer above the feed troughs in order to mount feed nets there. The water trough in the middle area can then be shared by both horses.

The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to the attached figures using an exemplary embodiment. Identical components are each provided with the same reference numerals in the various figures. Show it: 1 shows a section through a horse trailer with an exemplary embodiment of an integrated into the lid surface of a saddle chamber water trough,

Figure 2 is a view from diagonally above the back of the horse trailer (without roof and

Tailgate).

The horse trailer shown in the figures consists of a chassis 2, which is equipped with two axles on which the wheels 3 are arranged by means of wheel hubs. At the front end of the chassis frame a drawbar 12 is arranged with a trailer hitch. On the chassis 2, a car 4 is placed. This cabin 4 has a bottom 5, a front end wall 6, two side walls 7, 8, a roof 10 and a rear loading opening 9. The front end wall 6 can in principle arbitrarily, also in several parts, be formed. Thus, as shown here, it can be an upwardly curved rear wall, which is essentially perpendicular to the drawbar 13 and extends essentially over the entire width of the trailer. But it may also be a semi-circular in a plan view of the top wall or a narrow end wall, tapered to the front two side wall segments tapered forward, as is the case with a variety of hitherto conventional horse trailers.

The loading opening 9 is closed here with a tailgate 11 serving as a loading ramp, which can be pivoted backwards and downwards. An upper part of the loading opening is closed by a ventilation flap 11 ', which e.g. motor is pivotable upwards.

In the front of the drawbar 12 adjacent area of the cabin 4 is a saddle chamber 13, which is delimited by a vertical partition 14 to the rear of the interior for the horses to be transported and which is delimited at the top by a lid surface 15. The end wall 6 and the side walls 7, 8 have in the illustrated embodiment, windows.

In the right side wall 7 is located in the front area of the car 4, a door 16 (see Figure 2), through which the interior is accessible to a caregiver of the horses from the head side of the horses. For this reason, as can be seen in FIG. 2, the saddle compartment 13 is shaped asymmetrically with respect to the longitudinal axis L of the horse trailer 1 and the partition 14 runs obliquely forwards to the front wall 6 of the car 4 to the right of the longitudinal axis L. Stiegbereich the door 16 release. The saddle chamber 13 is accessible from the outside through a flap 19 in the end wall 6.

As can be clearly seen in particular in FIG. 2, a water drinker 20 is integrated in the lid surface 15 of the saddle compartment. This water trough 20 has an integrally formed in the lid surface 15 as a recess water bowl 21. The water bowl 21 is located at a short distance to the edge of the lid surface 15 facing the horses in the middle region, here exactly symmetrically on the longitudinal axis L of the horse trailer 1.

Between the water bowl 21 and the end wall 6 of the cabin extends a survey 22, which is also integrally formed out of the top surface 15 upwards. To the right and left of the water trough are again formed as wells two feed troughs 17, 18 in the lid surface 15, wherein the feed trough 17 on the right side according to the shape of the saddle chamber 15 has an obliquely outwardly forward front edge. The lid surface 15 of the tack chamber and thus the water drinker 20 and the feed troughs 17, 18 are preferably at a height of 100 cm to 140 cm above the floor 5 of the cabin 4. In the embodiment shown in the figures, the lid surface 15 is about 122 cm above the cabin floor 5.

From the survey 22 protrudes in the direction of the water bowl 21, a water inlet 23. The water inlet 23 is connected in the interior of the elevation 22 to a line 26, which in turn is connected to a pump 27, which is connected via a line 28 to a water tank 30 in the interior of the saddle chamber 13. Alternatively, such a tank can also be arranged, for example, on or on the drawbar 12, as shown by the dashed block 30 'in FIG.

In order to be able to fill the tank 30 comfortably with fresh water, a connecting element 31 arranged on the outer wall of the car 4 is connected to the tank 30 directly or via a line. At this connection element 31 can be connected to the outside of the cabin 4 a hose, so as to establish a connection to an external water supply. The horse trailer 1 is also a battery 32 to provide the pump 27 with electrical energy even if the horse trailer 1 is not attached to a towing vehicle and connected to the electrical system. Alternatively or additionally, the Horse trailer 1 also have a connection for an external power supply network (not shown).

The water inlet 23 consists in an upper part of a curved, short metal tube and has at its lower free end a flexible element 24 in the form of a tube. If this hose 24 is pressed out of the rest position, then a switch (not shown) is actuated, which controls a pump control 29 via a control line 25 so that an associated pump 27 pumps out of the tank 30 via the lines 28, 26 water to the water inlet 23 and accordingly, water is filled in the water bowl 21. This switch is set so that it is sufficient when a horse pushes his mouth against the end piece 24 of the water inlet.

As the embodiment shown in figures shows, it is possible with the help of the present invention in the horse trailer 1 water trough 20 to supply the horses at any time, even while driving, with fresh water, with the clever arrangement of the water trough 20 in the lid surface 15 of the tack chamber 13 a risk to animals is excluded even in risky driving maneuvers.

It is finally pointed out once again that the horse trailer described in detail above is merely an exemplary embodiment which can be modified in many different ways by the person skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. Furthermore, the use of the indefinite article "on" or "one" does not exclude that the characteristics in question may also be present multiple times.

Claims

claims

1. horse trailer (1) with a arranged on a chassis cabin (4) having a bottom (5), a front end wall (6), two side walls (7, 8) and a rear loading opening (9) and one in a lower Front area of the cabin (4), arranged in the interior of the cabin (4) saddle chamber (13) with a lid surface (13) which separates the saddle chamber upwards from the interior, characterized by a self-service water drinker (20), which in or is arranged on the top of the cover surface (15) of the saddle chamber (13) facing the interior of the cabin.

2. Horse trailer according to claim 1, characterized in that the self-service water drinker (20) in the lid surface (15) is integrated.

3. horse trailer according to claim 2, characterized in that the self-service water drinker (20) comprises a in the lid surface (15) molded water bowl (21).

4. Horse trailer according to claim 3, characterized in that the water bowl (21) is formed as a recess in the lid surface (15).

5. Horse trailer according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the cover surface (15) in an adjacent to the water bowl (21) region has a survey (22) from which the water bowl (21) towards a water inlet (23) protrudes.

6. Horse trailer according to claim 5, characterized in that the elevation (22) is in one of the water bowl (21) from the end wall (6) of the horse trailer (1) facing the region of the lid surface (15).

7. Horse trailer according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized by a water inlet (23) with a flexible end piece (24), which is so coupled with a water inlet into the water bowl (21) controlling switching element (29) that in the operation of Water trough (20) when moving the flexible end piece (24) from a rest position, a water inflow takes place.

8. horse trailer according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the water drinker (20) in a region on or near the longitudinal axis (L) of the horse trailer (1) is arranged.

9. Horse trailer according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that both sides of the water trough (20) each having a feed trough (17, 18) in the lid surface (15) of the saddle chamber (13) is formed.