ANTI-THEFT DEVICE FOR A SADDLE

• US 20150259190A1
• Filed: 10/04/2013
• Published: 09/17/2015
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,183,855 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 comprising at least one first layer provided with at least one through hole, or for a saddle having at least one through hole, 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 of said at least one through hole, to the outer surfaces of said at least one first pierced layer of said saddle, or to the outer surfaces of said saddle, wherein said at least one first fastening member and/or said at least one second fastening member is/are housable, at least partially, inside said at least one through hole of said at least one first layer, or inside said at least one through hole of said saddle, said anti-theft device comprising, as well, means for constraining in a not-removable way said at least one first fastening member to said at least one second fastening member.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one first countercheck and/or said at least one second countercheck has a lowered plate shape.

3. Device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one first countercheck and/or said at least one second countercheck has substantially a half-sphere, or sphere, shape.

4. Device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one first fastening member is provided, as well, with a pin housable, at least partially, inside said at least one through hole of said at least one first layer, or inside said at least one through hole of said saddle, and in that said at least one second fastening member comprises at least one blind hole to accommodate the free end portion of said at least one pin.

5. Device according to claim 2, wherein said at least one first countercheck has a half-sphere, or lowered plate, shape and said at least one second countercheck has substantially a lowered plate, or sphere, shape, characterized by comprising at least one protecting annular ring disposed in abutment between one of the outer surfaces of said saddle and said at least one second fastening member, said at least one second countercheck member being housable, at least partially, inside said at least one protecting ring, outside of said through hole of said at least one first layer, or of said at least one through hole of said saddle.

6. Device according to claim 5, wherein said at least one protecting annular ring has a cylinder, or truncated-cone, shape.

7. Device according to claim 6, wherein the outer side surface of said annular ring having a truncated-cone shape is substantially tangent to the outer surface of said at least one second countercheck, at least when it is housed, at least partially, inside said protecting ring.

8. Device according to claim 2, wherein said constraining means comprise first threaded members obtained on the outer side surface of said pin and second threaded members obtained on the inner side surface of said blind hole and screwable to said first threaded members, and in that it comprises an adhesive prearranged between said first threaded elements and said second threaded elements.

9. Device according to claim 2, 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.

10. Device according to claim 2, wherein said constraining means comprise an outer cylindrical surface obtained on the outer side surface of said pin and an inner cylindrical surface obtained on the inner cylindrical surface of said blind hole and coupleable by interference between the portions with said outer cylindrical surface.

11. Device according to claim 1, characterized by comprising GPS localizing means provided with a supporting frame having at least one passage eyelet and which can be positioned, directly or indirectly, between said at least one first countercheck, or said at least one second countercheck, and one of the surfaces of said at least one first pierced layer of said saddle, in such a way that said at least one pin of said at least one second fastening element is housable inside said at least one passage eyelet of said frame.

12. Device according to claim 11, wherein said at least one first countercheck or said at least one second countercheck comprises said supporting frame for said GPS localizing means.

13. Device according to claim 2, wherein said at least one first pierced layer comprises the core, or the saddle-bow, of said saddle.

14. Anti-theft system comprising at least one anti-theft device according to claim 1, characterized by comprising at least one RFID device insertable into said saddle, through said at least one through hole.

15. Method for prearranging an anti-theft system for saddle according to claim 14, characterized by comprising the step of making a through hole on said saddle, the step of inserting said RFID device, through said through hole, into said saddle, and the step of constraining in a not-removable way said at least one first fastening member to said at least one second fastening member at said through hole.

16. Method according to claim 15, wherein said saddle is provided with two or more layers, characterized in that said at least one RFID device is inserted into said saddle between two consecutive layers of said two or more layers.

17. Method for prearranging an anti-theft device for saddle according to claim 1, comprising the steps of making a through hole on said saddle and the step of constraining in a not-removable way said at least one first fastening member to said at least one second fastening member at said through hole.

18. Method for prearranging an anti-theft device for saddle according to claim 1, comprising the step of a) making a through hole on at least one first layer of said at least one saddle having one or more layers, the step of b) housing, at least partially, said at least one first fastening element, or said at least one second fastening element, inside said at least one through hole, in such a way that said at least one first countercheck, or said at least one second countercheck is, directly or indirectly, coupleable in abutment to one of the outer surfaces of said at least one first pierced layer, and the step of c) constraining in a not-removable way said at least one first fastening element to said at least one second fastening element, by said constraining means.

19. Method according to claim 18, wherein, before the step c), the additional step is comprised of d) lining, at least partially, said at least one first pierced layer with said one or more additional layers in such a way to cover, directly or indirectly, said at least one first countercheck, or said at least one second countercheck.

20. Method according to claim 19, wherein, before the step c) of the method, the step is comprised of e) making at least one second through hole on at least one second layer of said one or more additional layers, and the step of f) housing said at least one first fastening element, or said at least one second fastening element, inside said at least one second through hole.

21. Method according to claim 18, wherein said step c) is preceded by the step of g) positioning said frame of said GPS localizing means, directly or indirectly, between said at least one first countercheck or said at least one second countercheck, and one of the surfaces of said at least one first pierced layer of said saddle, in such a way that said at least one first fastening element, or said at least one second fastening element, is housable, at least partially, inside said at least one passage eyelet of said frame.