Patent Application
20190209417
The present invention relates to an appliance for pets, and more particularly to a walking aid for pets with limb injury.
Pets having limb injury (forelimbs or hindlimbs) need a wheelchair-like walking aid to help them to walk.
Taiwan utility model no. M549057 provides a conventional wheelchair for pets, which includes a frame and a fastening device. The frame is adapted to hold hindlimbs of a pet, which is provided with an adjusting rod to adjust a length thereof for various sizes of pets. The frame also is provided with two wheels. The fastening device is provided on the frame to fasten the pet on the frame. The fastening device includes two rings to hold the hindlimbs of the pet. This wheelchair does not provide any device to hold an abdomen of the pet.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,179,646 provides a walking aid for disabled four-legged animals, which includes a resting mechanism and a frontal section and a rear section connected together by a pivoting mechanism. The frontal and the rear sections and the resting mechanism are adapted to hole the whole body of a pet, so that the pet could walk by itself through wheels on a bottom of the resting mechanism. This walking aid provides a complex structure.
In view of the above, the primary objective of the present invention is to provide a waling aid for pets, which provides the pet a sufficient and comfortable support.
The secondary objective of the present invention is to provide a waling aid for pets, which has a simple structure.
In order to achieve the objective of the present invention, a walking aid for pets includes a main member having a closed portion and two wall portions connected to opposite sides of the closed portion, wherein the closed portion and the wall portions enclose a receiving room, and an opening is formed between the wall portions; two wheels pivoted on the main member; and a fastening device connected to the main member to be worn on a pet.
The walking aid of the present invention has a simple structure, and furthermore, it provides a soft pad member to hold the pet to increase the support to the pet.
The present invention will be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of some illustrative embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which
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The main member 10 is a U-shaped member, having a closed portion 11 at a side thereof and two wall portions 12 at opposite sides of the closed portion 11. The wall portions 12 extend in oblique directions, so that there is an included angle between each wall portion 12 and the closed portion 11. The closed portion 11 and the wall portions 12 enclose a receiving room 13, and an opening 14 is formed between the wall portions 12 to be an entrance of the receiving room 13. Each of the wall portions 12 have a concave interior side 15.
The wheels 20 are pivoted on the main member 10 for free rotation. In the present embodiment, the wheels are pivoted at junctions of the closed portion 11 and the wall portions 12, respectively.
The fastening device 30 is made of a flexible fabric to hold a pet. The fastening device 30 has a pad member 31, a fastening member 32, and an adjusting member 33. The pad member 31 is connected to the main member 10 through the adjusting member 33, and has a portion thereof received in the receiving room 13. The fastening member 32 has a plurality of belts connected to opposite sides of the pad member 31. The adjusting member 33 is a belt having opposite ends connected to the closed portion 11 of the main member 10 and the pad member 31. In the present embodiment, the adjusting member 33 is detachably connected to the closed portion 11 of the main member 10 by a clip or a Velcro fastener (not shown). The adjusting member 33 is a conventional adjusting belt which could adjust a length thereof. The pad member 31 is provided with two bores 34.
In conclusion, the walking aids of the present invention could stably hold the injured limbs of the pet and help the pet to walk by itself. The adjusting member 33 is operated to change a distance between the pad member 31 and the main member 10 according to the size of the pet. The pad member is made of a soft fabric to stably hold the abdomen of the pet.
It must be pointed out that the embodiments described above are only some preferred embodiments of the present invention. All equivalent structures which employ the concepts disclosed in this specification and the appended claims should fall within the scope of the present invention.
