This application claims priority from China Patent Application Serial Number 202011059680.6, which was filed on Sep. 30, 2020, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Animals, including, but not limited to, dogs and cats, are frequently sensitive to stress producing situations such as traveling, meeting new people, thunderstorms, and heavy rains. They may experience fearfulness, anxiety or other similar negative feelings during these high-stress situations. In order to remedy these situations, animal owners would hold or swaddle the animal in their arms to make it feel attended to and secure.
Considering that an animal owner cannot always be present with the animal during these fear-provoking situations, the applicant for this patent has designed an animal garment which provides the animals with an improvised human-like hugging sensation. When it is worn by the animal, it applies gentle and constant pressure on the animal so that the animal believes it is being hugged by a human, thus relieving its anxiety and stress during these stressful situations.
The invention contemplates an animal garment with a pair of straps and a pair of flaps, extending around the animal's neck and mid-body, respectively, when the garment is worn by the animal. Through the use of hook-and-loop fasteners, these flaps and straps are fastened and secured, creating constant pressure on the animal. Each pair of flaps/straps extends laterally from opposite sides of the central portion of the garment. When the garment is worn by the animal, each strap passes through a hole in an object serving as the point of reversal, doubles back, and then rests across the animal's neck. The pair of the flaps, which extends laterally from opposite sides of the central portion of the garment at different lateral levels, crosses each other, and rests across the outside of the pet's mid-body. When the garment is worn by the animal, the pair of flaps, together with the central portion of the garment, forms a shape conforming to the outside of the animal's mid-body. These flaps and straps can be fastened and secured by the hook-and-loop fasteners, creating constant pressure on the animal.
As explained in more details below, the aforementioned straps and flaps are secured in place by hook-and-loop fasteners when the garment is worn by the animal. Upon an examination of the garment, it would become clear to an observer that the pressure exerted on the animal through the secured flaps/straps delivers the intended effect of improvising and simulating a human being's embrace.
The following is a brief description of the drawings:
This is an animal garment 100 with a pair of straps 110, 115 and a pair of flaps 120, 125 that, when worn by an animal, extend around the animal's neck and midbody, respectively. Due to the fastening mechanism used in the design, these straps 110, 115 and flaps 120, 125 are fastened securely in a way that creates a “squeezing” sensation for the animal.
This animal garment 100 traverses the animal's neck and mid-body. First, a pair of straps 110, 115 extending laterally from opposite sides of the garment connects through an object that has a hole in it 130, such as a ring-shaped object, serving as the point of reversal. As can be seen in
The garment also extends around the animal's mid-body. More specifically, a pair of flaps 120, 125, extending laterally from opposite sides of the central portion 150 of the garment, at different lateral levels as indicated in
As demonstrated in
As demonstrated above, the proper way of putting the garment on the animal is to do it tightly enough so as to create the impression of a warm embrace from a human being. Nevertheless, the flaps/straps can be fastened with as much or as little force and strength as the animal owner desires, thereby customizing the effect on the animal.
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