Harness for working animal – Bonnet or shield – Nose guard
Patent
1986-10-17
1988-07-12
Swiatek, Robert P.
Harness for working animal
Bonnet or shield
Nose guard
119104, B68C 500
Patent
active
047561459
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
(1) Field of the Invention
This invention relates to animal goggles.
(2) Prior Art
Race horses sometimes suffer severe eye injuries and even blindness because of sand or earth thrown up by other horses, or because of being accidentally struck by a jockey's whip. Eye injuries are also liable to occur to polo ponies and to racing dogs. Furthermore, animals suffering from eye infections are likely to have their cndition worsened by flies, which may also transmit the infection to other animals.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
The present invention has been devised with the general object of providing animal goggles capable of obviating or materially reducing such occurrences.
With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention resides broadly in animal goggles including a flexible hood with eye holes for fitting about the eyes and over adjacent parts of the animal's head; means for releasably securing the hood on the head; a pair of mesh eye guards; and eye guard attachment means for securing each eye guard to the hood to project forwardly from the peripheral part of an eye hole. Preferably each mesh eye guard is dome-shaped and formed with a peripheral base flange, its attachment means being a flexible and resiliently deformable edging ring about an eye hole and formed, from its inner periphery, with an annular recess in which the eye guard base flange may be slidably engaged. The hood may have retainer members for releasably holding blinkers at the outer sides of the eye guards. Other features of the invention will become apparent from the following description.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In order that the invention may be readily understood and carried into practical effect, reference is now made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of goggles according to the invention, for use on a horse,
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one of the eyeguards of the goggles shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 shows in perspective one of the detachable blinker fittings of the goggles, and
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional detail drawing taken along line 4--4 in FIG. 1.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The goggles illustrated include a hood 10 which may suitably consist mainly of a section 11 of a fairly fine open-weave mesh of pliable plastics material shaped by being cut appropriately and, by well-known plastics welding techniques, re-joined along lines 12. The hood is formed with tapered strap attachment pieces 13 at both sides, and it has a reinforced edge 14.
In the upper part of the hood there are formed two circular ear holes 15 with flexible reinforcing edgings 16 welded to the hood.
Circular eye holes 17 are formed in the hood and welded or otherwise secured about each is an edging ring 18 which will later be more fully described.
The hood is such that it may be fitted closely on the head of a horse (not shown), its ears passing through the ear holes 15. The hood may be secured firmly in place by a quick-release catch of well-known type, comprising a male piece 19 and female piece 20, the one being connected adjustably to a strap 21, the other being fixed to an elastic strap 22, the two straps 22 and 21 being secured to and leading from D-pieces 23 fixed to the ends of the strap attachment pieces 13 of the hood 10.
Each of the eye hole edging rings 18 is of a flexible material, its inner part 24 being of greater thickness than its outer part 25, and being formed, from its inner periphery, with an annular groove or recess 26.
Two similar eye guards 27 are removably engaged with the two eye hole edging rings 18. Each of the guards consists of a domed mesh section 28, the edge portion of the mesh being out-turned and moulded into an annular peripheral flange 29. The domed mesh section 28 may suitably be of stainless steel wire mesh finished in matt black or other colour to reduce reflection of light from the mesh. The gauge of the mesh is preferably as fine as is consistent with inability, under normal circumstances, to retain a film of
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