Sandbox horse training apparatus
AssigneeValley National Bank
InventorWilliam R. Richardson
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Abstract
A horse is trained by being placed in a stall and covered completely with a loose granular material such as sand. Visual and sound images may be transmitted to the animal while the stall is being filled with the animal covering material. Side walls of the stall are formed by double panels, the innermost of which move relative to a floor of the stall to permit sand to pass into the stall. A pair of perforated plates form the stall floor, one of the plates being arranged for movement to align and misalign the perforations in the plates and retain sand in or pass it from the stall.
Claims8
Apparatus for training horses, comprising, in combination:
- a. an enclosure arranged for confining an untrained animal;
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- b. means for filling the enclosure with a loose granular material and covering the untrained animal, the filling means including a pair of spaced panels forming a wall of the enclosure, and means for moving the innermost of the panels away from a bottom surface of the enclosure and permitting a loose granular material to flow under the innermost panel and into the enclosure.
Apparatus for training horses, comprising, in combination:
- a. an enclosure arranged for confining an untrained animal, the enclosure having a bottom surface including a pair of parallel plates provided with perforations, and means connected to one of the plates for moving same between a position misaligning the perforations of the one plate with the perforations of the other of the plates and retaining a loose granular material in the enclosure, and a position aligning the perforations of the plates and permitting the granular material to flow out of the enclosure under the influence of gravity;
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- b. means for filling the enclosure with the loose granular material and covering the untrained animal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.