WO2009018802A1

WO2009018802A1 - Seat pad for riding

Info

Publication number: WO2009018802A1
Application number: PCT/DE2008/001227
Authority: WO
Inventors: Heinz Diekhans
Original assignee: Heinz Diekhans
Priority date: 2007-08-06
Filing date: 2008-07-24
Publication date: 2009-02-12
Also published as: EP2176159A1; DE202008017455U1

Abstract

The invention relates to a riding saddle having contact surfaces (7) for supporting the riding saddle on the horse, characterized by the contact surfaces (7), which with respect to the longitudinally extending convex muscle strands (3, 4) of the horse's back (1) to the right and left of the spinal column (2) have a concave shape at least in some regions.

Description

"Seat pad for equitation"

The invention relates to a seat pad for equestrian sports, in particular a saddle or a saddle pad for this or a so-called Päd as a pad for the saddle or a suitably trained saddle cloth or saddle cloth.

Riding saddles and other seat pads for riding, such as saddle pads, pads or saddle blankets are intended to allow a safe grip of the rider and the best possible adaptation to the horse's back, thereby achieving a secure grip of the saddle on the horse and on the other unwanted To prevent high pressure loads that can act on horseback. With strong pressure loads of the saddle on the back of the horse it can to damages of the back musculature or also of the Skeleton of the skeleton, in particular the spine of the horse come or permanent maladjustment of the horse, which in turn can also be transferred to the rider.

Conventional saddles often have on the underside two in the longitudinal direction of the horse running structures whose cross-section in the transverse direction of the horse is convex. These lie on the two also in the longitudinal direction, running, also convex back muscles, so that the contact area between saddle cushion and muscle strand is small and thus the pressure is great.

In order to prevent local pressure peaks between horseback and saddle or saddle pad, there are two approaches in the prior art.

In the first approach, a) saddle or b) lower part of the saddle in the form of an integrated saddle pad or c) saddle pad in the form of a separate body such as blanket or cushion (hereinafter the possibilities a) to c) are subsumed under the term "seat pad") They are designed to automatically adapt themselves to the shape of the horse's back by deformation, by means of elastic or viscoelastic training, while in elastic, spring-like formations such as elastic foams, the material gives way while increasing the back pressure In the second approach, the seat pad is adapted to the shape of the horse's back already during the fabrication of the shape of the horse's back. In the market and in the patent literature almost exclusively the first approach is taken up. Wool has always been used as an elastic medium, this is done in the form of blankets, felt blankets or in the form of leather cushions stuffed with wool. In recent times, elastic foam such as polyurethane or foam rubber (DE 2 98 00 448 U1) is used. Here, DE 299 21 539 U1 should be mentioned, where the foam layer is foamed onto the saddle tree. It also elastic flat bars made of different materials are used, which adapt to elastic (DE 298 14 101 U1) and stitches of elastic threads (DE 202 01 716 U1).

With regard to viscoelastic materials, the use of air (EP ₁ 634 851 A1) describes ₁ GeI (DE 94 11 519 U1), granules (DE 299 23 655 U1), hydraulic systems (mentioned in DE 296 08 974 U1) and viscoelastic foams (DE 296 08 974 U1, DE 295 10 846 U1) or in general of "plastically deformable or foamable materials or liquids" (DE198 05 802 A1).

The second approach, preforming, is rarely used for seat pads. In DE 600 12 949 T2 a pillow is inserted with a putty-like material between the saddle and horse and brought by stress in a non-positive form. Thereafter, the putty body is replicated by foam plates of different thickness, so as to obtain a preformed seat pad. In DE 20 2006 001 645 U1 slidable bodies such as small balls are placed in a vacuum pad, placed on the horse and sucked the air, so that a semi-hard, form-fitting seat pad is created. In DE 202 13 629 U1 is given as a solution, an "anatomically the horse However, there is no way to show how this should be achieved.

These known groups of solutions have the following disadvantages: In the elastic, spring-like media, increased pressure builds up in regions of great deformation, which runs counter to the goal of reducing pressure peaks. Viscose materials require a tight envelope to enclose the flowing material. Problems here provide the tightness and flexibility of the shell which is necessary in order not to significantly reduce the pressure reduction by the flowing material again by the fact that a large force is needed to deform the shell.

In the solutions for preforming the process for reshaping the cement body is time-consuming, the production of a vacuum pad is technically complex. Both methods have in common that the support body is hard and exactly copied the horse's body in the form that it had accidentally adopted during molding. This method leads only to non-deforming support bodies to low pressure peaks; however, this is not the case with moving horseback.

The object of the invention is an arrangement that avoids these disadvantages, ie it allows a small amount of time and low technical effort to build a seat pad that ensure low pressure peaks. This should also be the case with a moving horse and with short-term changing back shapes due to muscle hardening and altered movements (such as gaits, jumps, speed). This object of the invention is achieved by the teaching of the characterizing part of the main claim.

In other words, it is proposed in seat pads for equestrian sports, so in particular riding saddles, saddle pads, pads, saddlecloths or saddle cloths, the contact surfaces of the muscle strands in the transverse direction concave form, allowing a good adaptability of the contact surfaces of the seat pad to the back muscles of the horse becomes. As a result, a particularly punctual high pressure is prevented on these well-developed horses convex muscle strands and it is promoted undisturbed training of these muscle strands.

This transversely concave formation of contact surfaces on the convex muscle strands is hereinafter referred to as "muscle concave" and means that the contact surfaces of the seat pad in relation to the convex, running in the longitudinal direction of the horse back and on the top of the horse back muscle strands in the transverse direction concave to these muscle strands are formed in order to achieve the largest possible contact surface of the contact surfaces of the muscle strands.Since each individual muscle strand is encompassed by the contact surface, strong local pressure peaks are prevented.

The contact surfaces can not only be designed to act directly on the horse's back, but they can also be provided indirectly acting on the horse's body, for example when a correspondingly muscle-concave pressure distribution plate is used, on which one or more layers of the seat pad are arranged in the direction of the horse's back.

The teaching according to the invention thus differs from the prior art by the deliberate focusing on the concave configuration of the contact surface for adapting the shape to the convex muscle strands. In contrast, the prior art focuses either on deformability of non-preformed material or on rigid body conforming. In the deformation of non-preformed material, a high degree of deformation must be accepted, so that the desired degree of deformation can not be achieved because of the wrapping of the material. For elastic material is added that the pressure increases significantly. When adapting the shape by means of rigid bodies, the high level of accuracy of the adaptation does not come into play because the body of the horse changes.

In contrast to these solutions of the prior art, by focusing on the concave formation of the contact surface, first a coarse, concave shape adaptation is made, and thereafter, if necessary by elastic or viscoelastic materials, a fine adjustment with low deformation requirements, which of the variable shape the horse's back fine adapts. Advantageous embodiments of the invention are explained in the subclaims.

In an advantageous embodiment, the contact surface or the contact surfaces of the seat pad are formed in a muscle-concave shape to thereby achieve a good adaptation to the shape of the horse back independently of the pressure load.

In an advantageous embodiment, the seat pad two spaced transversely arranged in the transverse direction of the horse back muscle concave contact surfaces to allow a perfect fit of the seat pad on the back and to avoid misalignment of the contact surfaces to the horse out.

In an advantageous embodiment, the seat pad is a riding saddle which has muscle-concave contact surfaces on its side facing the horse in order to obtain a good pressure-free fit on the horse by the formation of the riding saddle, without the need for additional additional aids. A simple design of the contact surfaces of the saddle to the geometry of the horse back is the muscle-concave formation of the contact surfaces of the costumes or bars of a riding saddle.

In an advantageous embodiment, the muscle-concave contact surfaces of the saddle are or are provided on the horse-facing underside of the support frame of the saddle especially on the saddle tree. In an advantageous embodiment, the muscle-concave bearing surfaces of a saddle can be arranged between the support frame and the saddle pad of a saddle to z. B. to allow easy retrofitting already existing riding saddles. This can be, for example, one or more pressure distribution plates which have a muscle-concave contact surface with respect to the horse's back for the horse's back.

In an advantageous embodiment, the saddle can be equipped with saddle pads that have on their side facing the horse muscle concave contact surfaces or allow a muscle-concave adaptability.

This is achieved primarily by the concave shape of the cross section of the saddle pad. In addition, a homogeneous, elastic, the shape of the musculature adapting material can be arranged or elastic material of different hardness, which facilitates the elastic adjustment.

In addition, the seat pad may also be designed as a saddle pad or saddle pad, which have muscle concave contact surfaces with respect to the longitudinal muscle strands of a horse's back; corresponding saddle cloths or saddle cloths may, for example, in an advantageous embodiment, have pockets in which corresponding pillows, pads, plates or other inserts with a corresponding muscle concave shape or adaptability can be introduced or holders, the arrangement of appropriate pillows, pads, plates or other deposits on a Saddlecloth or Enable saddle cloth. It is particularly advantageous in this case that these deposits are interchangeable, so that the seat pad can be economically adapted to new requirements.

Advantageous embodiments of the correspondingly proposed saddle pad are explained in the subordinate to this main claim subclaims.

The muscle concave design of the seat pad to the convex upper side of the muscle strands of the horse back can also be done by a corresponding adaptability of the seat pad according to the independent claim 15th

Embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the drawings, wherein

Fig. 1 shows an inventive training of

Represents saddle pad,

Fig. 2 shows an inventive design of costumes or bars, and

Fig. 3 in cross section, the saddle cushion 5 is formed with the horseback back towards concave support surface. 7

Referring to FIG. 1, the upper area of a horse's back 1 is stylized in a cross-sectional representation, together with a stylized spinal column 2 and right and left of the spine 2, parallel to it, ie in the longitudinal direction of the horse muscle strands 3, 4, which cause the horseback 1 in the area of this Muscle strands 3, 4 on its upper side in each case convex, that is muscle-convex.

Saddle pads 5, 6 are shown stylized on these muscle strands 3, 4, which have concave bearing surfaces 7 on their lower sides facing the horse's back 1 in the transverse direction of the horse, thereby providing an ideal adaptation to the - convexly-shaped muscle strands 3, 4 of the horse's back 1 is achieved. The support surfaces 7 are thus "muscle concave" formed to the convex surface of the individual muscle strands 3, 4, which are thus partially encompassed in each case by the support surfaces 7. This is in contrast to the previously known saddle pad, which in turn have convex bearing surfaces, so that in unfavorable way, these convex contact surfaces of the pillow on the convex tops of the muscle strands 3, 4 impinge and lead to unintentionally high support pressures of the saddle pad.

The saddle pad 5, 6 may already have a muskelkoηkave training of the bearing surfaces 7, z. B. by a through the use of already concave fillers this saddle pad 5, 6 or by a special stitching of the saddle pad 5, 6, so that an already concave design of the bearing surfaces 7 even with unloaded saddle pad 5, 6 results.

However, the saddle pad 5, 6 can also by the way of their filling a muscle-concave adaptability to the muscle strands 3, 4 of the horse back 1 get z. B. if the saddle pad in their central regions 8 less filler than in the side regions 9, 10 or through Use of softer material in the central region 8 and by the use of harder material in the side regions 9, 10, so that the ideal concave deformability results only when applying and loading the saddle pad 5, 6 on the horse's back 1, but in this case due the special concave adaptability allows an ideal fit of the saddle pad 5, 6 on the top of the horse.

According to FIG. 2, the support frame 11 of the saddle or the saddle itself may have a muscle concave shape of contact surfaces corresponding to the formation of the upper portion of the horse back 1. In the support frame 11 of a western saddle shown stylized in FIG. 2, the contact surfaces 12, 14 of so-called bars 15, 16 are likewise concave, in order to obtain a good adaptability to the anatomy of the upper region of the horse's back 1. According to these bars 15, 16 and the so-called costumes of a saddle tree (not shown) may be formed.

It is also possible to attach to the support frame of a saddle or on the underside of a saddle tree additional equipment with which a muscle concavity of the muscle strand of the horse facing contact surface can be achieved; These additional systems can be, for example, single- or multi-part plates or layers which have a correspondingly concave shape and enable a good adaptability of the saddle to the anatomy of the horse's back 1. These mono- or multi-part plates or layers can therefore be named as pressure distribution plates / pressure distribution layers and can be made from any one suitable material, such as plastic material, correspondingly shaped leather, metal u. like.

In Fig. 3, the saddle pad 5 is shown in cross section with the concave bearing surface 7, which faces the horse's back. This concavity can be formed, for example, that already the saddle pad 5 is made of a corresponding muscle-concave material, for. B. a foam block with a corresponding concavity on its underside. In addition, the concavity z. B. be achieved by a different filling of the saddle pad 7, so that at least when resting on the horse's back results in the concave shape without heavy pressure load. Also, the concavity can be achieved by the shape of the walls or wrapping of the saddle pad.

Instead of or in addition to the above-described concave design of the bearing surfaces of saddles or saddle pads, it is possible saddle blankets, saddle pads or pads form such that they have a muscle concave support surface for the horse body or its muscle strands 3, 4, thereby pressure peaks on the To avoid horse body. It can therefore have any known saddle pad a corresponding concavity with respect to the support surface on the horse body, so that already by the use of corresponding known saddle pads, such as saddle blanket or pads, the object of the invention can be met and conventionally trained on this saddle pads trained saddles or Saddle pads could be applied. Of course it is also possible, both saddle pads with concave To use bearing surface for the horse body combined with saddles or saddle pads, which also have a concave bearing surface in the direction of the horse's body.

At the saddle blankets or saddlecloths z. B. mounts attached to which muscle concave pads, pillows, plates od. Like. Can be fastened, or it can od in saddle cloths, saddle pads. Like. Recordings for such muscle concave deposits be formed, or else the saddle blankets, saddle cloths and the like .. can already have corresponding muscle concave properties, such. B. by hollow formations or reinforcements.

Claims

claims:

1. seat pad for riding, with at least one contact surface for supporting the seat pad on the horseback, characterized by the at least one contact surface (7) of the seat pad, with respect to the longitudinal convex muscle strands (3, 4) of the horse back (1 ) has a muscle-concave shape formed in the transverse direction of a muscle strand (3, 4).

2. Seat pad according to claim 1, characterized by the seat pad, are disposed on the two arranged in the transverse direction of the horse back spaced muscle concave contact surfaces (7).

3. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by a saddle which has on its side facing the horse muscle concave bearing surfaces (7).

4. Seat pad according to claim 3, characterized by costumes or bars (Ϊ5, 16) of the saddle, which are equipped with muscle-concave bearing surfaces (7).

5. Seat pad according to claim 3 or 4, characterized by the on the horse facing the underside of the saddle, in particular the saddle tree, arranged muscle concave contact surfaces (7).

6. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims 3 - 5, characterized by at least one muscle-concave contact surface (7) or layer, which is arranged between the support frame (11) of the saddle and saddle pad (5, 6).

7. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims 3-6, characterized by at least one on the horse facing the underside of the saddle arranged pressure distribution plate, the muscle concave contact surfaces (7).

8. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims 3-7, characterized by the saddle, the saddle pad (5, 6), which have on their side facing the horse muscle concave contact surfaces.

9. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims 3 - δ, characterized by the saddle removable from the saddle and trained saddle pad (5, 6).

10. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by the formation of the seat pad as saddle pad (5, 6) with a horse body can be aligned towards muscle concave contact surface.

11. Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by the elastic design of the muscle-concave seat pad, which additionally increases the adjustment under pressure.

Seat pad according to one of the preceding claims 1 - 2, characterized by a saddle cloth or saddle cloth having at least one abutment surface (7) having a muscular concave shape with respect to the longitudinal convex muscle strands (3, 4) of the horse Muscular concave is customizable.

13. Sitzunterlage according to claim 12, characterized by the saddle cloth or saddle blanket, which has at least one receiving pocket for pillows, inserts or plates which are used as horse-directed muscle-convex investment surface (7) is formed acting.

14. Seat pad according to claim 12 or 13, characterized by the saddle cloth or saddle blanket, the attachments for cushions, inserts or plates, which are designed to act as horse-directed muscle concave contact surfaces (7).

15. seat pad for equestrian sports, with at least one contact surface for supporting the seat pad on the horseback, characterized by the at least one contact surface (7) of the seat pad having a with respect to the longitudinal convex muscle strands (3, 4) of the horse back (1 ) Has a muscle concave in the transverse direction of a muscle strand (3, 4) formed Anpassparkeit.