Patent ID: 6105345
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: B68C

Abstract:
An apparatus for helping a rider remain mounted on an animal and yet be quickly released from the animal if thrown therefrom, comprising:rigging adapted to be cinched about the body of such an animal and including a rider holding portion adapted to be engaged by a limb of a rider mounted on the animal to aid the rider in remaining mounted but being capable of becoming entangled with said limb if the rider is thrown from the animal whereby the rider is caught on the animal,the rigging having first and second separable parts that interrupt the continuity of the rigging about the animal when the parts are separated; anda latch including first and second pieces respectively connected to the separable parts of the rigging and a third piece releasably interconnecting the first and second pieces, said first, second and third pieces being disconnected from each other when the third piece is released from the first and second pieces.