Animal husbandry – Animal controlling or handling – Hitching or tethering
Patent
1994-03-31
1995-07-25
Hirsch, Paul J.
Animal husbandry
Animal controlling or handling
Hitching or tethering
119857, 128875, 182 6, 297484, A47D 1304, A47D 1308
Patent
active
054352720
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention consists of a harness, garment, or an overall designed to be worn by babies or young children which guarantees vertical hold, and point(s) of application of lateral, externally oriented force(s), favoring the acquisition and general learning of the mechanics of walking and other complex movements.
The harness is designed to facilitate the learning process of walking for these children. For older, handicapped children undergoing physiotherapy, it is an aid to mobility. The invention can be used in a number of other situations notably during car journeys acting as a safety aid in case of accident; as an aid to the learning of swimming, crawling, climbing up and down stairs and for learning in safety of skating, skate boarding and skiing.
It is known that when teaching a child to walk at an early age, one usually holds him by the hands or arms. This method of learning presents two drawbacks. In the first instance the stance is tiring for the adult who is guiding the child. Secondly this method does little to develop the child's sense of balance. Furthermore, since the child does not yet have enough strength in his legs, he cannot regulate the weight applied to one leg at the time when he supports all his weight on one foot. The same phenomenon occurs when the child attempts to walk on his own even when holding on to furniture. He is preoccupied in mobilizing his physical strength to stand up and move forward, to avoid falling down and being afraid. Thus, he has little left during his experiments to carry out his own observations, checks and corrections and finally to memorise probative sequences.
Harnesses exist which are made from a structure of interlaced straps held together around the child's chest. Such a structure is attached to a rein which an adult can hold. This type of harness passes beneath the arms of the child thus leaving his hands free. One notices that the position of the center of thrust of these harnesses compared to the center of gravity of the child makes an instrument which is meant for holding children on a rein and not to hold children upright or standing on their feet at the parent's choice.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The purpose of this invention is to remedy this drawback by the following three principles. Firstly, a vertical position is assured. The baby is totally safe and realises this in a few seconds from his own observations, this having positive, immediate and obvious consequences. Secondly, the force required to hold the child upright is regulated by the parent's hand: this constitutes the first lever.
The assured vertical hold of the baby allows the adult, in addition to the aforementioned point, to control and measure out at will, the amount of weight he wishes each of the baby's legs to carry, which is equivalent to the possibility of having the lower part of the baby's body working in reduced gravity conditions,: conditions ideal for learning. Thirdly, the consequent improvement of the sustaining parallelogram of forces which includes the baby himself, constitutes a second lever. The harness puts lateral handles at the disposal of one or both of the baby's hands, in such a way that in taking hold of one of the handles, he can apply an outward pressure-variable at will. The baby's arm(s) is(are) oriented according to the resultant of the parallelogram of forces as follows: the upper line of force of the parallelogram runs from the baby's hand to the parent's hand through their respective straps and each of the two can adjust the amount of pull at will. The lower line of force of the parallelogram runs from the baby's hand to the opposite point of his body, this opposite point having its seat at the point of maximum pull on the harness which is close to the baby's center of gravity. This phenomenon creates extra stability to the system that consists of the body of the baby, as much in movement as when stationary, and this independently of the first principal which remains essential.
This harness allows a vertical force to be appl
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