Animal husbandry – Milkers – With signals – indicators – registers – and timers
Patent
1985-01-25
1986-10-28
Swiatek, Robert P.
Animal husbandry
Milkers
With signals, indicators, registers, and timers
119 29, 272 5, A01K 2900
Patent
active
046192220
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an animal training course, especially for race-horses, comprising a guide arranged along an endless track, following the shape of the track and having the form of a rigid, non-yielding guide along which a plurality of mobile wheel-mounted carriages are adapted to travel, each carriage comprising a depending member for tieing the animal to be trained thereto to make it move along the track without the help of a trainer.
PRIOR ART
Training courses of the above-mentioned type are previously known from U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,965,866 and 4,138,966 and DE pat. No. 2,634,724. The courses disclosed in these patent specifications have the features in common that each horse is individually tied to a separate, depending follower and tieing member, and that all available depending follower members of this kind are arranged along one endless transmission means extending along the entire length of the track and being driven along the track by a drive mounted at a suitable location beside the track. The individual tieing of the horses to separate depending members is advantageous in so far as the horses are then kept well apart, thus having no possibility of disturbing each other; in this way, appropriate training conditions are achieved. On the other hand, it is in practice most unfavourable to connect the separate depending members to an endless transmission means, driven by a stationary drive, i.e. a transmission means, the length of which corresponds to the length of the track as shown in the above-mentioned patent specifications. If the track is of considerable length, the frictional resistance from the transmission means moving along the entire length of the track will be enormous, thus involving a need for extremely powerful drives as well as a very large energy consumption for the propulsion of the depending members. In practice, the training courses disclosed can therefore only be given track lengths of twenty or thirty meters, which besides is evidenced by the fact that these tracks have been installed indoors.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention aims at eliminating the above-mentioned disadvantages of the previously known training courses of this type and creating conditions for building tracks of unlimited lengths. These and other objects are achieved according to the invention in that the carriages jointly form a train consisting of at least a first, leading carriage provided with a preferably battery-driven motor to drive the remaining, preferably trailing carriages of the train along the guide, and that said guide comprises a transceiver for controlling the operation of the carriage provided with the motor by actuating a receiver associated with said carriage and for reading physiological measured values, for example the pulse, of the animals from transmitters applied to them.
By arranging, in accordance with the principle of the invention, the carriages in the form of a train comprising a suitable number of carriages, for example 5-10, each consisting of a separate depending member, the track can be of unlimited length without causing but moderate friction forces. By reason of the remote control of the training course through the transceiver, there is achieved a very flexible training of the horses or animals as the speed of the carriage provided with the motor (the locomotive) may, in a simple way, be varied as desired, and as the physiological measured values, for example the pulse, of the horses can be read directly. Furthermore, the advantage should be emphasized that the track can be incorporated with the terrain in any desired manner and be brought to comprise both lefthand and righthand turns for the benefit of an all-round training of the horses.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a general perspective view of a training course according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a partial side view of a guide associated with the course.
FIG. 3 is a view along line III--III in FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional
REFERENCES:
patent: 920346 (1909-05-01), Kronenberger
patent: 4433627 (1984-02-01), Forshee
Jonason Hans
Sundberg Bo
HB Autonom
Swiatek Robert P.
LandOfFree
Animal training course, especially for race horses does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Animal training course, especially for race horses, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Animal training course, especially for race horses will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1341051