Hay handle for use with a hay net
OwnerLaurie Jennifer Weiserinventor
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Abstract
A hay handle for use with a hay net in order to facilitate loading of the hay net and a method of providing a quantity of forage to an animal through use of a hay handle and an engaged hay net. The handle assembly that is adapted to be placed into an open position wherein the hay handle assembly rotates around a pair of hinges to the open position so that forage may be inserted into an open mouth of a hay net; and a closed position wherein the hay handle assembly rotates around the pair of hinges to the closed position so that the animal may access the quantity of forage in the hay net through a set of open gaps in the hay net not including the open mouth of the hay net used for filling the hay net.
Claims9
A method of providing a quantity of forage to an animal, the method comprising:
- obtaining a hay net engaged to a hay handle assembly;
- the hay net having a set of loops along a top perimeter of the hay net, the top perimeter forming an open mouth of the hay net;
- the hay handle assembly capturing at least a portion of the set of loops along the top perimeter of the hay net using a set of at least one cord that passes into and out of a set of holes in the hay handle assembly and through at least some of the set of loops along the top perimeter of the hay net;
- the hay handle assembly adapted for:
- an open position wherein the hay handle assembly rotates around a pair of hinges to the open position so that the quantity of forage may be inserted into the open mouth of the hay net;
- and
- a closed position wherein the hay handle assembly rotates around the pair of hinges to the closed position so that the animal may access the quantity of forage in the hay net through a set of open gaps in the hay net but not the open mouth of the hay net;
- opening the hay handle assembly;
- inserting the quantity of forage though the hay handle assembly and through the open mouth of the hay net;
- closing the hay handle assembly;
- and
- positioning the hay net engaged to the hay handle assembly with the quantity of forage in proximity to the animal so that the animal may slowly obtain forage through the set of open gaps in the hay net but not quickly obtain forage through the open mouth of the hay net.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.