Combined crop and longeing whip
OwnerKenneth E. Girtyinventor
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Abstract
A device for use during riding and training of animals such as horses which can be utilized either as a riding crop or longeing whip. The body portion of the device defines a crop having a handle formed at one end and a cracker attached to the opposite end. A plurality of flexible wand elements are nested within the body portion and are telescopically extendable from that end to which the cracker is attached. A line defining a lash is attached to the wand element whose axis coincides with that of the body portion and the cracker is fabricated in the form of a closeable pocket. The device forms a longeing whip with the lash and wand elements fully extended and when retracted the lash is retained in coiled form within the closeable pocket thus converting the device to a riding crop.
Claims5
A combined crop and longeing whip comprising:
- (a) an elongated tapered tubular member;
- (b) means defining a handle adjacent that end of said tubular member of major diameter;
- (c) a plurality of wand elements nested within said tubular member and telescopically extendable from that end of the latter of minor diameter;
- (d) a line member defining a lash fixed on one end of one of said wand elements the axis of which coincides with the axis of said tubular member;
- (e) pocket means defining a cracker attached to that end of said tubular member of minor diameter including:
- (i) opposed end surfaces forming an opening for receiving said line member when said wand elements are retracted within said tubular member;
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- (ii) closure means for maintaining said opposed end surfaces in contiguous relation for retaining said line within said pocket means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.