Anti-theft device for a saddle

• US 10,183,855 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2013
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Andrea Scianaro, Massimo Ghirga
• Original Assignee: Andrea Scianaro, Massimo Ghirga
• Inventors: Scianaro, Andrea, Ghirga, Massimo
• Primary Examiner(s): Estremsky, Gary W
• Application Number:
  US14/433,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20150259190A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,936 Days
• Field of Search: 411510, 411537, 411918, 411930, 411339, 29508, 3405721, 3405728, 292327
• CPC Class Codes: B68C 1/00 Saddling equipment for riding- or pack-animals
• CPC Class Codes: B68C 1/02 Saddles
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 35/00 Screw-bolts; Stay-bolts; Screw-threaded studs; Screws; Set screws F16B33/008 takes precedence; joining sheets or plates using screws with two separate threads F16B5/0275; using screws with adjustment sleeves F16B5/0283; thread cutting screws F16B25/00

Abstract

Anti-theft device for a saddle having at least one through hole, the device having at least one first fastening member and at least one second fastening member respectively provided with a first countercheck and a second countercheck, coupleable in abutment, from opposite sides of the at least one through hole, to the outer surfaces of the saddle, wherein the at least one first fastening member and/or the at least one second fastening member is/are housable, at least partially, inside the at least one through hole of said saddle, the anti-theft device having means for constraining in a not-removable way the at least one first fastening member to the at least one second fastening member.

Claims

1. Anti-theft device for a saddle having one or more layers, said saddle being adapted with at least one through hole piercing at least one first layer of said saddle, or being adapted with at least one through hole piercing through said saddle, said device comprising:

at least one first fastening member and at least one second fastening member, respectively, provided with a first countercheck and a second countercheck, directly or indirectly, coupleable in abutment, from opposite sides either of said at least one through hole piercing said at least one first layer of said saddle, or of said at least one through hole piercing through said saddle and,

wherein said at least one first fastening member or said at least one second fastening member are housable, at least partially, inside said at least one through hole piercing said at least one first layer, or inside said at least one through hole piercing through said saddle,

said anti-theft device further comprising constraining means for constraining in a not-removable way said at least one first fastening member to said at least one second fastening member,

wherein said at least one first countercheck or said at least one second countercheck has a plate shape,

wherein, when the anti-theft device is mounted on the saddle, said at least one first countercheck has a half-sphere or plate shape and said at least one second countercheck has substantially a plate or sphere shape,

wherein said anti-theft device further comprises at least one protecting annular ring configured to be disposed in abutment between an outer surface of said saddle and said at least one second fastening member,

wherein said at least one second countercheck member is housable, at least partially, inside said at least one protecting ring, when said at least one protecting annular ring is in abutment between said outer surface of said saddle and said at least one second fastening member whereby said at least one second countercheck member is disposed either outside of said through hole piercing said at least one first layer of said saddle, or outside of said at least one through hole piercing through said saddle, and

wherein said at least one first fastening member is provided with a pin housable, at least partially, inside said at least one through hole piercing said at least one first layer, or inside said at least one through hole piercing said saddle, and wherein said at least one second fastening member is adapted with at least one blind hole to accommodate a free end portion of said at least one pin.

2. The anti-theft device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one first countercheck or said at least one second countercheck has substantially a half-sphere, or sphere, shape.

3. The anti-theft device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one protecting annular ring has a cylindrical, or truncated-cone, shape.

4. The anti-theft device according to claim 3, wherein an outer side surface of said protecting annular ring has a truncated-cone shape, said outer side surface being substantially tangent to an outer surface of said at least one second countercheck, at least when said at least one second countercheck is housed, at least partially, inside said protecting annular ring.

5. The anti-theft device according to claim 1, wherein said constraining means comprise first threaded members obtained on an outer side surface of said pin and second threaded members obtained on an inner side surface of said blind hole and screwable to said first threaded members, and said constraining means further comprising an adhesive prearranged between said first threaded elements and said second threaded elements.

6. The anti-theft device according to claim 1, wherein said constraining means comprise a plurality of annular guides having a truncated-cone shape jutting from the outer side surface of said pin and coupleable by interference with the inner side surface of said blind hole.

7. The anti-theft device according to claim 1, wherein said constraining means is disposed on the outer side surface of said pin and disposed on the inner cylindrical surface of said blind hole and coupleable by interference with said outer surface of said pin.

8. The anti-theft device according to claim 1, further comprising GPS localizing means provided with a supporting frame having at least one passage eyelet and configured to be positioned, directly or indirectly, between said at least one first countercheck or said at least one second countercheck, and said outer surface of said saddle whereby said pin of said at least one first fastening element is housed inside said at least one passage eyelet of said frame.

9. The anti-theft device according to claim 8, wherein said first countercheck or said second countercheck is adapted to couple said supporting frame for said GPS localizing means.