Animal husbandry – Animal controlling or handling – Inhibiting use or movement of specific body part other than...
Patent
1996-10-24
1998-08-25
Price, Thomas
Animal husbandry
Animal controlling or handling
Inhibiting use or movement of specific body part other than...
A01K 1504
Patent
active
057973547
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a collar for mounting around the neck of an animal and of the type which comprises a web of flexible material having a protruding tongue and a through slot through which the tongue may be passed when the collar is mounted around the neck of the animal.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Such collars are mainly used for pets or domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats, but also for rodents (e.g. guinea pigs) and for birds, but may also be used for domestic animals in general. A collar of the present type is placed around the neck of an animals, e.g. a dog, where it is desired that the dog shall be prevented from licking or biting a lesion or a wound on its body or legs, since the dog might bite a bandage and tear it off or lick a wound clean of ointment with which the wound has been treated. A collar of the present type placed around the neck of an animal ensures that the animal cannot contact the place concerned on the body with its mouth and cause further injury by protracting the healing of a wound, or that an ointment on the wound cannot be licked off and cause injury in the mouth or digestive system of the dog.
Collars of the present type are typically made of a strong. plastics material in the form of a sheet, a web or a film in a thickness of 1 mm or less. Typically, the collars have the shape of a circular ring or circular ring sector, said collar being assembled around the neck of the animal by joining along two radially extending edges of the circular ring sector, thereby imparting to the collar the shape of a truncated cone shell or a funnel whose edge, which is defined by the small circle of the truncated cone, engages the neck of the animal and is optionally attached to a band around the neck of the animal while the head of the animal is present in the funnel with the "face" directed toward the opening the funnel, which is defined by the great circle of the truncated cone shell. The opening angle of the truncated cone shell may be large or small and be adapted to the animal species concerned, and for some animal species, such as e.g. cage birds, collars having a very large opening angle may be used, and here the collars may even have the approximate shape of a flat circular ring disc when placed around the neck of the cage bird.
FR 2 630 297 discloses a collar having a first tongue for passing through a straight slot in the collar. A second tongue directed in the opposite direction of the first tongue and integral therewith forms a hook adapted to be passed through a second slot and thereby lock the collar in its assembled state.
U.S. Pat. No. 3 036 554 shows such a collar which, when placed around the neck of a dog, is assembled by means of laces or staples. It is difficult and time-consuming to fit the laces or staples when assembling the collar, and to remove them when the collar is to be removed.
U.S. Pat. No. 3 072 098 concerns a collar for a chinchilla. This collar is assembled by means of loose parts in the form of a strip having two U-bends which are attached to the collar by means of two staples.
U.S. Pat. No. 5 012 764 describes a collar which is assembled by means of complementary fasteners, e.g. in the form of loops and hooks which are fastened to the overlapping ends of the collar.
DE 4 100 851 concerns a collar whose overlapping ends are assembled by means of snap fasteners.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
All these known collars for animals are assembled by means of loose parts, or parts which have to be applied to the collar in the manufacture.
A collar as defined in claim 1 may be made of the base material merely by punching, and the tongues and slots of the collar constitute a complete closing mechanism, thereby obviating the necessity of applying further means which are to provide a closing mechanism.
Insertion of the tongue into two slots provides a relatively rigid assembly, and the stated structure of the tongue and of the first slot and the second slot ensures that the tongue is locked when it is placed in both slots. Suitable mut
REFERENCES:
patent: 3036554 (1962-05-01), Johnson
patent: 3072098 (1963-01-01), Boemie
patent: 5012764 (1991-05-01), Fick et al.
patent: 5349927 (1994-09-01), Campbell
patent: 5469814 (1995-11-01), Moy et al.
Jorgen Kruuse A/S
Price Thomas
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