Choke collar for pets

• US 4,020,795 A
• Filed: 05/11/1976
• Issued: 05/03/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James A. Marks
• Original Assignee: James A. Marks
• Inventors: Marks, James A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chamblee, Hugh R.
• Application Number:
  US05/685,399
• Time in Patent Office: 357 Days
• Field of Search: 119/106, 119/109, 119/156
• US Class Current: 119/654
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 27/005 Quick-couplings, safety-couplings or shock-absorbing devices between leash and collar

Abstract

A choke collar for pets includes a stranded wire cable core having free ends each of which is given an enlarged head. A sheath of synthetic plastics material encloses the core substantially its entire length between the beads and is preferably impregnated with a pesticidal composition. First and second cooperable locking elements connect the free ends of the collar and provide for adjustment of the collar diameter, and a lock sleeve is slidably mounted on the sheath and is dimensioned to be positionable over the first and second locking elements to present a smooth external surface. A snap ring is slidable on the sheath to receive a leash.

Claims

1. A choke collar for pets comprising in combination:

a core consisting of a length of stranded cable, the free ends of which each terminate in an enlarged bead;

a sheath of synthetic plastics material enclosing said core throughout substantially its entirety between said beads;

a first enlongated locking element secured at one end thereof to said core adjacent one of said beads thereof and having fastening means thereon;

a second elongated locking element having fastening means thereon cooperable with the fastening means of said first locking element for releasably securing said first and second locking element in any of a plurality of collar length determining settings, said second locking element being adapted at one end thereof to be releasably secured to said core adjacent the other of said beads;

a lock sleeve slidably mounted on said sheath and dimensioned to be positionable over said first and second locking elements to conceal said locking elements therebeneath;

and means slidably secured to said sheath for connection to a leash.

2. A choke collar according to claim 1, wherein said fastening means on said first locking element comprises a plurality of longitudinally spaced apertures and said cooperable fastening means on said second locking element comprises a series of longitudinally spaced stud element dimensioned and configured to be releasably secured in selected ones of said apertures.

3. A choke collar according to claim 1, wherein said one end of said second locking element is provided with a yoke the legs of which are resilient and separable to be detachably securable to said core.

4. A coke collar according to claim 1, wherein said sheath is formed of a material containing a pesticidal composition and is slidable relative to said core.

5. A choke collar according to claim 4, wherein said sheath is formed of a synthetic polymeric material containing as the pesticidal composition dimethyl dichlorovinyl phosphate.