Holder for electronic detection element, comprising band attachment with pull force protection

• US 4,612,719 A
• Filed: 07/27/1984
• Issued: 09/23/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek Nedap
• Original Assignee: N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek "Nedap"
• Inventors: de Jong, Hendrik J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Swiatek, Robert P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WEHNER, CARY ELLEN
• Application Number:
  US06/635,123
• Time in Patent Office: 788 Days
• Field of Search: 40/21 C, 40/21 R, 119/29, 119/106, 24/168, 24/170, 24/171, 24/191, 24/174, 224/163
• US Class Current: 40/658
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 11/006 Automatic identification systems for animals, e.g. electronic devices, transponders for animals identification systems for access to feeding pens A01K1/0209; ear tags with electronic identification means A01K11/004
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/005 Buckles combined with other articles, e.g. with receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/006 Attachment of buckle to strap for safety buckles A44B11/2553
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/12 turnable clamp

Abstract

A holder for an electronic detection element, which is adapted for attachment about the neck or other part of the body of an animal to be detected by a band. The holder is provided with a cavity for receiving the detection element and with at least one clamping member for adjustably clamping a band end.

Claims

1. A buckle for receiving an electronic detection element and for attaching a band about the neck or another part of the body of an animal, said buckle comprising:

a holder frame,

a cavity defined by said holder frame for receiving an electronic detection element,

at least one clamping means for adjustably clamping one end of a band on said holder frame, and

shear pin means mounted on said holder frame for attaching another end of said band to said holder frame, said shear pin means fracturing when a predetermined pulling force on the band is exceeded.

2. A buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one clamping means includes a flap pivotably mounted on said holder frame, said flap includes a boss located adjacent to a pivoted end of said flap, said boss extends adjacent to a rib defined by said holder frame when said flap is in a closed position, said one end of said band being conducted through a slot defined by said holder frame and resting on said rib when said flap in in an open position, lugs defined by said holder frame retain a free end of said flap when said flap is in said closed position to hold said band between said boss and said rib.

3. A buckle as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an electronic detection element embedded in said cavity.

4. A buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one clamping means includes three parallel interspaced cross members located at each of two opposite ends of said holder frame about which and between which a band end is installed and at least the cross members located adjacent to said two opposite ends are shear pins.

5. A buckle as claimed in claim 4, wherein said cross members are integral with said holder frame and are made of the same material as said holder frame.

6. A buckle for receiving an electronic detection element and for attaching a band about the neck or another part of the body of an animal, said buckle comprising:

a holder frame;

at least one clamping means for adjustably clamping one end of a band on said holder frame; and

a cavity defined by said at least one clamping means for receiving an electronic detection element.

7. A buckle for receiving an electronic detection element and for attaching a band about the neck or another part of the body of an animal, said buckle comprising:

a holder frame;

a cavity defined by said holder frame for receiving an electronic detection element; and

at least one clamping means for adjustably clamping one end of a band on said holder frame, and said at least one clamping means includes an inlet slot defined at each of two opposite ends of said holder frame for receiving an end of said band, each inlet slot being bounded one one side by a rib mounted on said holder frame which is hollow and semi-circular in shape, a semi-circular curved end edge of an otherwise flat flap is pivotally mounted in a cavity defined by said rib, a free edge of said curved end edge of said flap coacting with an edge of the slot located opposite to said rib for clamping an end of said band.

8. A buckle as claimed in claim 7, wherein said free edge of said curved end edge of the flap includes teeth.

9. A buckle as claimed in claim 7, wherein said curved end edge is a shear pin means.

10. A buckle as claimed in claim 7, wherein the flat portion of each flap covers at least a portion of said cavity when each of said flaps are in a closed position.

11. A buckle for receiving an electronic detection element and for attaching a band about the neck or another part of the body of an animal, said buckle comprising:

a holder frame;

a cavity defined by said holder frame for receiving an electronic detection element; and

at least one clamping means for adjustably clamping one end of a band on said holder frame, and said at least one clamping means includes an inlet slot defined at each of two opposite ends of said holder frame for receiving an end of said band, one edge of each inlet slot being formed by a transversely extending rib and another edge of each inlet slot includes an ascending portion for coacting with an end edge, bent at an angle greater than 90°

, of an otherwise flat flap for sliding underneath said transverse rib to clamp a band end with said bent end edge.

12. A buckle as claimed in claim 11, wherein the flat portion of each flap covers at least a portion of said cavity when each of said flaps are in a closed position.

13. A buckle for receiving an electronic detection element and for attaching a band about the neck or another part of the body of an animal, said buckle comprising:

a holder frame;

a cavity defined by said holder frame for receiving an electronic detection element; and

at least one clamping means for adjustably clamping one end of a band on said holder frame, and said at least one clamping means includes an inlet slot defined at each of two opposite ends of said holder frame for receiving an end of said band, each inlet slot being bounded at its top by a transversely extending rib defined by the holder frame and at its bottom by a flat shoulder defined by the holder frame, a wedge-shaped clamping member is insertable in each inlet slot for clamping a band end against said flat shoulder and at least one of said transversely extending ribs is a shear pin.

14. A buckle as claimed in claim 13, wherein each wedge-shaped clamping member includes teeth at an end averted from said transversely extending rib.

15. A buckle for receiving an electronic detection element and for attaching a band about the neck or another part of the body of an animal, said buckle comprising:

a holder frame;

a cavity defined by said holder frame for receiving an electronic detection element;

at least one clamping means for adjustably clamping one end of a band on said holder frame; and

retaining lugs for retaining a block within said cavity, said block containing an electronic detection element.