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WO2008093365A1 - Licou avec effet élastique pour entraîner et contrôler des animaux - Google Patents

Licou avec effet élastique pour entraîner et contrôler des animaux Download PDF

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WO2008093365A1
WO2008093365A1 PCT/IT2007/000055 IT2007000055W WO2008093365A1 WO 2008093365 A1 WO2008093365 A1 WO 2008093365A1 IT 2007000055 W IT2007000055 W IT 2007000055W WO 2008093365 A1 WO2008093365 A1 WO 2008093365A1
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Andrea Sellitti
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Priority to EP07713421A priority patent/EP2120537B1/fr
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68B—HARNESS; DEVICES USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; WHIPS OR THE LIKE
    • B68B1/00—Devices in connection with harness, for hitching, reining, training, breaking or quietening horses or other traction animals
    • B68B1/02—Halters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68B—HARNESS; DEVICES USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; WHIPS OR THE LIKE
    • B68B1/00—Devices in connection with harness, for hitching, reining, training, breaking or quietening horses or other traction animals

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  • the present invention refers to a halter with elastic effect for training and controlling animals, in particular horses.
  • bridle ⁇ "testiera"
  • the bridle is then composed of bands made of leather, nylon or new synthetic composite materials (such as Beta) and various buckles that allow adjusting the length of various elements, in order to make them perfectly suited to the horse head measures; other buckles, on the ends of the various segments, allow closing its loop and connecting the bridle to the mouthpiece.
  • noseband (“capezzina”) : it is composed of a loop passing around the horse neck back, that goes on laterally downwards down to about two fingers below the jaw bone projection, and of a nose strap (“nasierina”) , that surrounds the horse muzzle. In general, it has two buckles for adjusting the loop length and one buckle for closing the nose strap; cheek-pieces (“montanti”) and throatlatch (“sottogola”) : it is a loop that passes around the horse neck back, overlapping to the noseband (crownpiece or "sopratesta”) ; it is laterally divided on each side into two bands, two of which
  • the cheek-pieces have a length that can be adjusted with buckles and are connected to the mouthpiece, two of which
  • - front-piece it is an horizontal loop, not adjustable, that passes as a bridge on the horse forehead, and terms with two loops into which noseband and crownpiece pass;
  • - reins they are bands that are connected to the mouthpiece and are gripped by the horse-rider.
  • a modern bridle once it has been freed from the mouthpiece, can also be used as a halter, in order to then manually lead or fasten the horse through a shank ("longhina") connected thereto.
  • the traditional halter is composed of bands made of leather, or more frequently sturdy nylon, mutually connected through metal rings; in the lower part of the halter, there further is a sturdy metal ring used for fastening the shank, when the horse must be fastened or manually led.
  • the halter such as for example the one of the M hackamore" type, can also be used for training young horses, or for saving the mouth of a trained horse.
  • the horse control from the saddle only with the halter by using one or two reins connected to side halter rings or to its lower ring, requires, since it lacks the mouthpiece, a high degree of confidence between horse-rider and animal, and the communication fineness is anyway limited: the known halter therefore, though avoiding injuries to the animal mouth, is scarcely efficient in its control, above all when training.
  • Pat Parelli provides for the use of a particular halter, obtained from a single piece of small rope, suitably knotted for realising a rather loose ring around the horse muzzle, and ends in its lower part with a ball knot from which a double rope loop projects.
  • a rather heavy snap link is fastened to such loop, of the rope used both for ground working and for leading the mounted horse.
  • the snap link weight, the diameter of the rope of which the halter is made and the knots position realise, as a whole, a communication tool with the horse. Also in this case, however, an adequate animal leading can occur only after a specific training both of the animal and of the horse-rider.
  • Object of the present invention is solving the above prior art problems by ,providing a halter that, exploiting an elastic reaction generated by the animal neck, allows naturally and instinctively controlling the animal.
  • a further object of the present invention is providing a halter that allows an efficient animal training without having to use coercing and offensive elements, such as for example the mouthpiece.
  • Another object of the present invention is providing a halter that can be simply and economically realised by knotting a single segment of rope.
  • FIG. 1 shows a vector diagram showing a general operating principle of the halter with elastic effect according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows a side perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the halter with elastic effect according to the present invention worn by a horse.
  • the animal can be interpreted as a vector force defined by quantities such as direction, sense and module or intensity, in which the head is the sense, the neck is the direction, together the module or intensity; in particular, with reference to FIG. 1, the neck 13 of an animal can be considered as a spring defined by its own elastic constant k: when the animal tends to lift its head 10, for example under the impulse of a traction force F ⁇ on some reins, if such movement is elastically constrained, the consequent yielding or elongation ⁇ of the neck 13 itself generates an elastic force F E , and a consequent reaction force F R that, suitably channelled, can oppose the elastic force F E in order to bring back the animal head 10 to its starting position.
  • the halter 1 according to the present invention is therefore conceived in order to channel such reaction force F a .
  • the following description will refer, for briefness, to components of the halter 1 according to the present invention as present, visible and shown as an example on the left side of the head of the animal by which it is worn (in the present case, the head 10 of a horse) : which similar components of the halter 1 are symmetrically present also on the right side of the head 10 are however clear for any skilled person in the art.
  • the halter 1 therefore comprises a noseband composed of a first loop 3 passing around a horse neck back connected in each one of the two sides of the head 10 to a nose strap 5, that surrounds the animal muzzle 10a, through at least one cheek-piece 7, such cheek- piece 7 being preferably transmitted by a first transmission element 9 integral with such nose strap 5 in order to form at least one throatlatch 11, this latter one preferably analogously connecting to the other cheek-piece on the opposite side of the head 10.
  • traction means adapted to channel at least the reaction force F R opposing at least the elastic force F E generated by the animal neck 13 depending on at least the traction force F ⁇ exerted along the reins 19.
  • the sensitivity of the halter 1 will depend on the elastic constant located in the animal neck 13: in particular, with small values of k, there will be a more sensible operation of the halter 1, while with higher values of k, the halter 1 operation will be less sensible.
  • the traction means can be realised, preferably symmetrically on both sides of the head 10, as at least one tie rod 15, preferably arranged substantially in parallel with the cheek-piece 7 and connected thereto in at least one point 23 next to the animal neck back.
  • the tie rod 15 could be part of a second loop 8, also passing around the horse neck back, in parallel with or overlapping the first loop 3.
  • the first loop 3 and the second loop 8 can be mutually connected, preferably symmetrically on both sides of the head 10, next to at least the point 23 upstream of the respective cheek-piece 7 and tie rod 15.
  • the cheek-piece 7 is equipped with at least one second transmission element 17 adapted to slidingly transmit the tie rod 15 in order to connect it to the at least one respective rein 19.
  • at least one stop element 25 can be arranged along the tie rod 15 itself.
  • the cheek-piece 7 or throatlatch 11 could also be equipped, preferably symmetrically on both sides of the head 10, with at least one third transmission element 21 adapted to slidingly transmit the rein 19, such third transmission element 21 being arranged downstream of such stop element 25.
  • the halter 1 can also be made of a single segment of rope, sturdy and flexible, made of textile and/or synthetic material, suitably knotted by means of a plurality of knots, of the length of about 5 meters and of the thickness of 6 - 7 mm.
  • the various transmission elements 9, 17, 21 can advantageously be loop- type knots within which the respective cheek-pieces 7, tie rods 15 and reins 19, also made of the same segment of rope, slidingly pass and are transmitted.
  • the same stop elements 25 can be made as at least one suitable knot along the respective rope section operating as tie rod 15.
  • the halter 1 when the animal applies, with its head 10, a contrary traction to the traction force F ⁇ exerted on the reins 19 by a horse-rider, its neck 13 behaves like a spring that tries to go back to its previous dimensions (namely, in the position desired by the horse-rider before the animal reaction) under the action of the reaction force F R channelled by the traction means: this means that the animal does not go away from the horse-rider control, avoiding the application of further painful coercing forms and of manoeuvres that scarcely respect the animal.

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L'invention concerne un licou (1) avec effet élastique pour entraîner et contrôler un animal. Ledit licou comporte au moins une muserolle et des rênes (19) ainsi que des moyens de traction interposés entre une ladite muserolle et lesdits rênes (19), ces moyens de traction étant aptes à canaliser au moins une force de réaction (FR) s'opposant à au moins une force élastique (FE) générée par le cou de l'animal (13) en fonction d'au moins une force de traction (FT) exercée le long des rênes (19).
PCT/IT2007/000055 2007-01-29 2007-01-29 Licou avec effet élastique pour entraîner et contrôler des animaux Ceased WO2008093365A1 (fr)

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AT07713421T ATE469544T1 (de) 2007-01-29 2007-01-29 Halfter mit elastischer wirkung zum trainieren und kontrollieren von tieren
DE602007006994T DE602007006994D1 (de) 2007-01-29 2007-01-29 Halfter mit elastischer wirkung zum trainieren und kontrollieren von tieren
PCT/IT2007/000055 WO2008093365A1 (fr) 2007-01-29 2007-01-29 Licou avec effet élastique pour entraîner et contrôler des animaux
EP07713421A EP2120537B1 (fr) 2007-01-29 2007-01-29 Licou avec effet élastique pour entraîner et contrôler des animaux

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US2040410A (en) * 1935-02-06 1936-05-12 Adam Marty Antibutting device
US2421173A (en) * 1946-01-09 1947-05-27 Eugene L Ulrich Bridle bit
US2422308A (en) * 1946-04-16 1947-06-17 Masbruch Henry Halter
US5038717A (en) * 1990-06-22 1991-08-13 Judith Bent Device for training retriever dogs
WO1997032469A1 (fr) * 1996-03-07 1997-09-12 Borchelt Peter L Collier pour chien
US20050072377A1 (en) * 2003-10-07 2005-04-07 Wanveer Pamela L. Animal wrap for touch training

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US2040410A (en) * 1935-02-06 1936-05-12 Adam Marty Antibutting device
US2421173A (en) * 1946-01-09 1947-05-27 Eugene L Ulrich Bridle bit
US2422308A (en) * 1946-04-16 1947-06-17 Masbruch Henry Halter
US5038717A (en) * 1990-06-22 1991-08-13 Judith Bent Device for training retriever dogs
WO1997032469A1 (fr) * 1996-03-07 1997-09-12 Borchelt Peter L Collier pour chien
US20050072377A1 (en) * 2003-10-07 2005-04-07 Wanveer Pamela L. Animal wrap for touch training

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SE2130127A1 (en) * 2021-05-11 2022-10-18 Maria Norin Safety head halter for a horse
SE544706C2 (en) * 2021-05-11 2022-10-18 Maria Norin Safety head halter for a horse

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EP2120537B1 (fr) 2010-06-02

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