Patent Application
20130255594
The present invention relates to a pet collar, and more particularly to a pet collar that has magnets attached thereto for helping the pet to increase blood flows, improve blood circulation, reduce the possibility of cancer and relieve pains.
Following the constantly upgraded and improved living standards in the modern society, more and more people enjoy the fun of keeping pets, including cats, dogs, or even pet rats, rabbits, and mini pigs. Meanwhile, a variety of supplies for pets has also been designed and introduced into market, so that pet owners may provide the pets with better foods and living environments while taking care of pets in a more convenient manner.
For example, to keep a pet dog, the pet owner not only has to provide the dog with foods and a living environment, but also needs to walk the dog outdoors from time to time, allowing the dog to urinate and exercise. To keep the dog within sight and under control when walking the dog, particular in the night, the pet owner would usually put a pet collar around the dog's neck and connect a leash to the pet collar. Therefore, by griping the leash, the pet owner can well control the dog's moving direction and range.
A conventional pet collar mainly includes a belt having a buckle connected to one end thereof and a plurality of punch holes spaced along another end thereof. By putting the belt around a pet's neck and inserting a pin of the buckle into one of the punch holes, the pet collar can be fixed to the pet's neck. A leash is connected to the pet collar and gripped by the pet owner for controlling the pet's movement, lest the pet should run about to cause trouble to others.
However, in the modern society, most people have only very limited living space and their pets also have largely reduced space to move. Moreover, the highly developed industrial and technological fields result in severely air-polluted living environment. Pets living in the severely air-polluted environment are subject to various kinds of respiratory tract diseases or tend to show abnormal behavior, all of which could not be effectively cured by medical treatment. Therefore, it is desirable to work out an improved pet collar to help the pets avoid suffering illness and having abnormal behavior in their living environment.
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a health-beneficial pet collar having magnets attached thereto, so that magnetic energy from the magnets helps in enhancing the pet's autonomic nervous system, blood circulation system and various organs for them to have upgraded self-healing ability, enhancing the pet's immune function, and reducing the possibility of cancer on the pet.
To achieve the above and other objects, the health-beneficial pet collar according to the present invention includes a belt, a fastening device, an adjusting member, and a magnetic unit. The belt has two axially spaced end sections respectively forming a first end and an opposite second end, which can be detachably connected together for the belt to form a loop structure, and the loop structure encloses a receiving space therein for a pet's neck to extend therethrough. The fastening device is connected to between the first end and the second end of the belt for selectively opening or closing the loop structure. The adjusting member is slidably connected to one end section of the belt for adjusting a circumferential size of the loop structure and accordingly, a diameter of the receiving space. The magnetic unit is fixed to the loop structure for attaching to the pet's neck.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the fastening device includes a male buckle member connected to the first end of the belt, and a mating female buckle member connected to the second end of the belt. The male buckle member includes a first retaining portion for holding the first end of the belt extended therethrough, and a plurality of elastic anchors forward extended from the first retaining portion toward the second end of the belt. And, the female buckle member includes a second retaining portion for holding the second end of the belt extended therethrough, and a catch portion forward extended from the second retaining portion toward the first end of the belt for engaging with the elastic anchors.
The adjusting member includes a frame and a middle post transversely extending across the frame, so that a first opening and a second opening are defined in the frame at two opposite sides of the middle post; and the belt is sequentially extended through the first and the second opening with the first end connected to the middle post.
In an operable embodiment of the present invention, the magnetic unit includes an engaging member axially engaged with the belt, and a plurality of magnets sandwiched between the belt and the engaging member.
In another operable embodiment of the present invention, the magnetic unit includes more than one pocket fixedly formed on an inner side of the loop structure, and a plurality of magnets held in the pockets. Each of the pockets is formed of two overlapped plies, which are separately sewed to the inner side of the loop structure along upper and lower circumferential edges thereof; and the overlapped portions of the two plies form a pocket mouth, via which the magnets can be put into or taken out of the pocket.
The health-beneficial pet collar of the present invention further includes a retaining member, to which a leash can be connected. In an embodiment of the present invention, the retaining member is configured as a retaining ring, and the second end of the belt is extended through and held to the retaining ring.
The pet collar according to the present invention is characterized in that the belt thereof has a magnetic unit mounted thereon. With the belt closely contacting with the pet's neck, magnetic energy from the magnets of the magnetic unit can effectively act on the pet to enhance the pet's autonomic nervous system, blood circulation system and various organs for them to have upgraded self-healing ability and to enhance the pet's immune function.
The structure and the technical means adopted by the present invention to achieve the above and other objects can be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, wherein
The present invention will now be described with some preferred embodiments thereof and with reference to the accompanying drawings. For the purpose of easy to understand, elements that are the same in the preferred embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals.
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In the illustrated first preferred embodiment, the fastening device 12 includes a male buckle member 121 connected to the first end 111 of the belt 11 and a mating female buckle member 122 connected to the second end 112 of the belt 11. The male buckle member 121 includes a first retaining portion 123, through which the first end 111 of the belt 11 is extended to be held in place; and a plurality of elastic anchors 124 forward extended from the retaining portion 123 toward the second end 112. The female buckle member 122 includes a second retaining portion 125, through which the second end 112 of the belt 11 is extended to be held in place; and a catch portion 126 forward extended from the second retaining portion 125 toward the first end 111 for engaging with the elastic anchors 124. In the catch portion 126, there is a cavity 127. Two retaining holes 128 are separately formed on two lateral sides of the catch portion 126 for retaining the anchors 124 thereto. The male buckle member 121 further includes a guide bar 129 forward extended from the first retaining portion 123 and located between the elastic anchors 124; and the cavity 127 of the catch portion 126 of the female buckle member 122 is internally provided with a guide rail 120 corresponding to the guide bar 129. With the correspondingly provided guide bar 129 and guide rail 120, the male buckle member 121 can be correctly slid into and locked to the female buckle member 122.
The adjusting member 13 has a frame 131 and a middle post 132 transversely extended across the frame 131, so that a first opening 133 and a second opening 134 are defined in the frame 131 at two opposite sides of the middle post 132. To connect the adjusting member 13 to the belt 11, just sequentially extend the first end 111 of the belt 11 through the second and the first opening 134, 133 of the adjusting member 13 for the belt 11 to press against the middle post 132. To adjust the length of the belt 11, simply manually slide the belt 11 relative to the frame 131. Stop sliding the belt 11 when the belt 11 has been adjusted to a desired length. At this point, two axially spaced ends of the frame 131 and the middle post 132 form three points that hold the belt 11 in place. Therefore, with the adjusting member 13, a pet owner may adjust the loop structure 113 to a size most suitable for the pet's neck size, which varies with different types and sizes of pets.
The magnetic unit 14 includes an engaging member 141 axially engaged with the belt 11, and a plurality of magnets 142 sandwiched between the belt 11 and the engaging member 141.
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In summary, the pet collar according to the present invention is applicable to various types of pets and is characterized in that the belt thereof has a magnetic unit mounted thereon to provide magnetic energy. With the belt in close contact with the pet's neck, the magnetic energy from the magnets can effectively act on the pet to enhance the pet's autonomic nervous system, blood circulation system and various organs for them to have upgraded self-healing ability and to enhance the pet's immune function.
The present invention has been described with some preferred embodiments thereof and it is understood that many changes and modifications in the described embodiments can be carried out without departing from the scope and the spirit of the invention that is intended to be limited only by the appended claims.
