Animal restraint system for vehicles
AssigneeBOS Automotive Products, Inc.
InventorsMark Lobanoff, Ronald S. Gulette
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Abstract
An animal restraint system for a vehicle has a vest having leg holes for front legs of an animal. The vest is symmetrical about the leg holes allowing the vest to be rotated 180 degrees and placed on the animal in either orientation. The vest is removably couplable to a seat belt of the vehicle by a tether strap that has at least one loop through which the seat belt of the vehicle is passed through. The tether strap clips to a top strap of the vest that extends from one side of the vest to the other side of the vest across the back of the animal.
Claims24
An animal restraint system for a vehicle, comprising a vest having leg holes for front legs of an animal, the vest having front and rear sides symmetrical about the leg holes such that the vest can be placed on the animal with either of its front and rear sides in front of the front legs of the animal, the vest removably secured to a seat belt of the vehicle when the animal restraint system is used to restrain the animal in the vehicle.
An animal restraint system for a vehicle, comprising:
- (a) a vest having leg holes, the vest spherically shaped so that it is symmetrical about the leg holes;
- (b) the vest having a vest jacket with reinforcing straps secured to an outer surface of the vest jacket;
- (c) a top strap having first and second ends, a first end of the top strap removably couplable to a first side of the vest jacket above a first one of the leg holes by a buckle and the second end of the top strap adjustably secured to a second side of the vest jacket above a second one of the leg holes by a strap length adjuster;
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- (d) a tether strap removably couplable to the top strap and having at least one loop at one end through which a seat belt of the vehicle passes to secure the tether strap to the seat belt of the vehicle.
An animal restraint system for a vehicle, comprising:
- (a) a vest having leg holes, the vest spherically shaped so that it is symmetrical about the leg holes;
- (b) the vest having a vest jacket with reinforcing straps secured to an outer surface of the vest jacket;
- (c) at least two top straps, each top strap having first and second ends, each first end of each top strap removably couplable to a first side of the vest jacket above a first one of the leg holes by a buckle and each second end of each top strap adjustably secured to a second side of the vest jacket above a second one of the leg holes by a strap length adjuster;
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- (d) a tether strap removably couplable to the top straps and having at least one loop at one end through which a seat belt of the vehicle passes to secure the tether strap to the seat belt of the vehicle.
A method of securing an animal in a vehicle, comprising:
- (a) placing front legs of the animal into leg holes of a vest of an animal restraint system that is coupled to a seat belt of the vehicle with either of a first and second side of the vest that are on opposite sides of the leg holes being in front of the front legs of the animal;
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- (b) securing the animal restraint system to the animal by passing at least one top strap secured to one side of the vest over one of the leg holes over a back of the animal and removably coupling the top strap to a second side of the vest over the other leg hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.