Animal tag
AssigneeMichael Stuart Gardner
InventorsMichael Stuart Gardner, Roy Victor Bladen
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Abstract
A tag for application to the ear of an animal includes a male portion and female portion. The female portion includes a chamber within which an insert is accommodated, the insert engaging in an interlocking manner with the chamber and allowing access of a head of the male portion into the chamber but then acting to prevent removal of the head. The male and female portions may be connected at a central portion which enables folding of the male and female portions. In another embodiment, the central portion may include a weak-link so that the male and female portions can be torn apart if the tag becomes caught on an obstruction.
Claims11
A tag for application to an ear of an animal, the tag having a male portion including an upstanding projection adapted to be inserted through an animal's ear and a female portion having engagement means adapted to engage with the projection, the engagement means including a chamber which is of a hard material and substantially closed off at an outer end thereof and a hollow insert accommodated within the chamber and provided as a continuous body of a material which is of substantially the same hardness or is softer than the material forming the chamber, which body can expand as a head of the projection is inserted but can contract about the head after insertion to allow passage therethrough of the head of the projection but resisting withdrawal therefrom and wherein the chamber and insert, in use, are adapted to engage in an interlocking manner, the head of said projection includes a chamfered or cut-away edge, said head being of a substantially conical shape and said chamfered or cut-away edge is formed by an enlarged half-cone at the projection head.
A tag for application to an ear of an animal, the tag having a male portion including an upstanding projection adapted to be inserted through an animal's ear and a female portion having engagement means adapted to engage with the projection, the engagement means including a chamber which is of a hard material and substantially closed off at an outer end thereof and a hollow insert accommodated within the chamber and provided as a continuous body of a material which is of substantially the same hardness or is softer than the material forming the chamber, which body can expand as a head of the projection is inserted but can contract about the head after insertion to allow passage therethrough of the head of the projection but resisting withdrawal therefrom and wherein the chamber and insert, in use, are adapted to engage in an interlocking manner, the head of said projection includes at least one chamfered or cut-away edge, said head being of a substantially conical shape and said chamfered or cut-away edge is formed by an enlarged partial cone at the projection head.
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