Title: Animal safety harness

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Claims: Having thus described the invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. An animal safety harness adapted to hold an animal in a fixed position on an automobile seat having a seat portion and an upwardly extending backrest, which comprises:

a. an adjustable body strap adapted to secure around a rearward portion of said animal and to engage a belly of said animal;

b. an elongated back strap member joined at one end thereof to a top closed portion of said body strap, said back strap member adapted to extend forwardly on a back of said animal to a nape of said animal;

c. a pair of free ends of a U-shaped forwardly extending strap member affixed to said body strap, a closed end portion of said U-shaped strap member adapted to engage a chest area of said animal, leg portions of said U-shaped strap member adapted to engage the sides of said animal;

d. a pair of lower free ends of an inverted U-shaped strap element affixed to said leg portions of said U-shaped strap member, an upper closed portion of said inverted U-shaped strap element joined to a forward end of said back strap member, said upper closed portion of said inverted U-shaped strap element adapted to engage said nape of said animal;

e. a first chain member;

f. first means for detachably securing said first chain member to said leg portions of said U-shaped strap member;

g. a second chain member;

h. second means for detachably securing said second chain member to said first chain member; and

i. third means for permanently securing said second chain member to a floor of said automobile.

2. An animal safety harness as recited in claim 1, wherein said first means comprises:

a. snaffle snaps joined with swivel mountings to both ends of said first chain member;

b. a loop member joined to each said leg portion of said U-shaped strap members; and

c. one said snaffle snap engaging each said loop member.

3. An animal safety harness as recited in claim 2, wherein said second means comprises:

a. a snaffle clip affixed to a first end of said second chain member;

b. a ring element looped through a center link of first said chain member; and

c. said snaffle clip engaging said ring element.

4. An animal safety harness as recited in claim 3, wherein said third means comprises:

a. a second end of said second chain member extending downward through a juncture between said seat portion and said backrest; and

b. said second end of said chain member secured to said floor with an eyeblot.

Other info:

Inventors: Longshore, Frederic (San Rafael, CA, US)
Kissling, Claude H. (San Rafael, CA, US)

Application Number: 551036
Filing Date: 1975-02-19
Publication_date: 1976-04-06
Assignee: Lawrence Peska Associates, Inc. (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 119/771 D30/152
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3310034	Mar, 1967	Dishart	119/96.
3491726	Jan, 1970	Partin	119/96.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Chamblee, Hugh R.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Manfeldt; Richard E.