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EP2120537B1 - 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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EP2120537B1
EP2120537B1 EP07713421A EP07713421A EP2120537B1 EP 2120537 B1 EP2120537 B1 EP 2120537B1 EP 07713421 A EP07713421 A EP 07713421A EP 07713421 A EP07713421 A EP 07713421A EP 2120537 B1 EP2120537 B1 EP 2120537B1
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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 that is adapted around the horse head, and whose purpose is generally supporting a mouthpiece connected to reins.
  • 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.
  • the generic bridle parts are:
  • 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 "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.
  • a spring accumulates potential energy by stretching the intermolecular links of the material of which it is made.
  • the spring contraction is proportional to the compression force. This is valid, obviously, within the elastic strain limit, defined as the maximum applied force limit within which the elastic body, when released, goes back to its dimensions before having applied the force.
  • 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 T on some reins, if such movement is elastically constrained, the consequent yielding or elongation X 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 R .
  • 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 T 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 T 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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  1. Harnais (1) à réaction élastique pour le dressage et la maîtrise d'un animal comprenant au moins un petit licou et des brides (19), caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend des moyens de traction interposés entre ledit petit licou et lesdites brides (19), lesdits moyens de traction étant capables de véhiculer au moins une force de réaction (FR) contrastant au moins une force élastique (FE) provenant du cou (13) dudit animal en fonction d'au moins une force de traction (FT) exercée le long desdites rênes (19).
  2. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit petit licou est formé d'une première boucle (3) passant autour de la nuque dudit animal et reliée de part et d'autre de ladite tête (10) à un anneau de museau (5) par l'intermédiaire d'au moins un montant (7).
  3. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit montant (7) est renvoyé par un premier élément de renvoi (9) solidaire à l'anneau de museau (5) pour former au moins une sous-gorge (11).
  4. Harnais (1) selon les revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que lesdits moyens de traction sont représentés par un moins un tirant (15).
  5. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que ledit tirant (15) et placé parallèlement audit montant (7).
  6. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que ledit tirant (15) est relié audit montant (7) par au moins un point d'attache (23) à proximité de la nuque dudit animal.
  7. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que ledit tirant (15) fait partie d'une seconde boucle (8) passant autour de la nuque dudit animal parallèle ou superposée à ladite première boucle (3).
  8. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que ladite seconde boucle (8) est reliée à ladite première boucle (3) en ledit point d'attache (23).
  9. Harnais (1) selon une quelconque des revendications de 3 à 8, caractérisé en ce que, entre ledit premier élément de renvoi (9) et ladite sous-gorge (11), ledit montant (7) possède encore au moins un second élément de renvoi (17) capable de renvoyer en coulissant ledit tirant (15) pour le relier à au moins une desdites brides (19).
  10. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que le long dudit tirant (15) et en aval dudit second élément de renvoi (17) on rencontre au moins un élément de butée (25).
  11. Harnais (1) selon une quelconque des revendications de 3 à 10, caractérisé en ce que ledit montant (7) ou ladite sous-gorge (11) est muni d'au moins un troisième élément de renvoi (21) capable de renvoyer en coulissant ladite bride (19).
  12. Harnais (1) selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que ledit troisième élément de renvoi (21) est placé en aval dudit élément de butée (25).
  13. Harnais (1) selon les revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il est réalisé en un segment unique de corde comportant une pluralité de noeuds.
  14. Harnais (1) selon les revendications 11 et 13, caractérisé en ce que ledit premier et/ou second et/ou troisième élément de renvoi (9, 17, 21) sont des noeuds coulants.
  15. Harnais (1) selon les revendications 12 et 13, caractérisé en ce que ledit élément de butée (25) est au moins un noeud le long d'un tronçon de ladite corde faisant office de tirant (15).
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