IP Library Granted Patent US 8,220,419
Granted Patent B2
US 8,220,419 · App. 12/658,245 · Granted Jul 17, 2012

Radially adjustable horse grazing muzzle

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Patent No.
US 8,220,419
App. No.
12/658,245
Granted
Jul 17, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A radially adjustable horse grazing muzzle includes a muzzle body made of a flexible material and having an open end for allowing a horse snout to be placed in the muzzle body therethrough, and an adjustment assembly configured as a segment of a periphery of the open end of the muzzle body and having a pad and at least one adjustable fastener composed a first member and a second member, wherein the first member is fixed to the pad while the second member is fixed to an adjacent segment of the periphery of the open end of the muzzle body, the first and second members being configured to combine with an adjustable overall length thereof, whereby when the overall length of the combined first member and second member is reduced, the muzzle body is centripetally converged, thereby achieving a radial adjustment of the muzzle.

Claims (13)

1. A radially adjustable horse grazing muzzle, comprising:

a muzzle body made of a flexible material and having an open end for allowing a horse snout to be placed in the muzzle body therethrough; and

an adjustment assembly configured as a segment of a periphery of the open end of the muzzle body and comprising:

a pad; and

at least one adjustable fastener, each having

a first member; and

a second member,

wherein the first member is fixed to the pad while the second member is fixed to an adjacent segment of the periphery of the open end of the muzzle body, the first and second members being configured so as to combine with each other such that an overall length of the combined first member and second member is adjustable,

whereby when the overall length of the combined first member and second member is reduced, a circumference of the periphery of the open end of the muzzle body is reduced, achieving a radial adjustment of the muzzle,

wherein the first member is a fixing ring adjacent to the second member while the second member is a strip with a distal end formed as a free end so that the free end of the second member is allowed to pass through the fixing ring and couple with the fixing ring.

2. The radially adjustable horse grazing muzzle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pad has an inner surface made of a soft yet wearable material for tenderly abutting on the horse snout.

3. The radially adjustable horse grazing muzzle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the adjustment assembly is composed of the pad and two said adjustable fasteners that flank the pad.

4. The radially adjustable horse grazing muzzle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said first member and second member are fixed to the pad and the periphery of the open end of the muzzle body by means of sewing.

Continuity (1)
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