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US 12,473,195 B2Granted
Equine halter attachment
AssigneeThinline, LLC
InventorEvan Gerhardt
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Abstract
An equine harness includes a nose-piece harness strap configured to at least partially surround a nose of a horse, and a nose-piece attachment coupled to an inner surface of the nose-piece harness strap to engage with the nose of the horse. The nose-piece attachment includes a first side segment at a first end of the nose-piece attachment, a second side segment at an opposite, second end of the nose-piece attachment, and a center segment coupled between the first side segment and the second side segment.
Claims20
An equine harness comprising:
- a nose-piece harness strap configured to at least partially surround a nose of a horse, and
- a nose-piece attachment coupled to an inner surface of the nose-piece harness strap to engage with the nose of the horse, the nose-piece attachment including a first side segment at a first end of the nose-piece attachment, a second side segment at an opposite, second end of the nose-piece attachment, and a center segment coupled between the first side segment and the second side segment,
- wherein the first side segment, the second side segment, and the center segment have an outer surface arranged to face away from the nose of the horse and an inner surface arranged to face toward the nose of the horse and spaced apart from a centerline of the nose-piece attachment by a first distance at the first end and the second end and a second distance, greater than the first distance, at a location spaced apart from the first end and the second end such that the nose-piece attachment is configured to establish a gap between the inner surface and the nose of the horse on each side of the centerline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.