Patent ID: 7263816

Claim:
A reflective horse halter, comprising: a. a central cylindrical braided rope core operable to sustain substantial tensile forces; b. a cylindrical reflective braided sleeve comprising three or more narrow width reflective strips that are braided at a shallow cylindrical braid angle, said cylindrical reflective braided sleeve being operable to surround said central cylindrical braided rope core thereby providing omnidirectional reflectivity; c. said narrow width reflective strips comprising a woven or knitted narrow width strip and a flexible retroreflective sheet, said woven or knitted narrow width strip having a show surface, and said flexible retroreflective sheet being thermally bonded onto said show surface thereof; d. said flexible retroreflective sheet having retroreflectors bonded thereto with a transparent bond layer; and e. said halter having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being braided to form an omnidirectionally reflective connection behind the neck of the horse, and the distal end being looped and braided and attached to a metallic hardware component operable with said rope core and surrounding said braided sleeve to form a halter having omnidirectional reflectivity.