Apparatus for exercising and training animals, particularly horses

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR EXERCISING AND TRAINING ANIMALS, PARTICULARLY HORSES, COMPRISING; A MOVABLE MEMBER SUPPORTED ABOVE A TRACK FOR THE ANIMALS AND CONSTRAINED TO MOVE IN AN ENDLESS PATH; A FIRST FLEXIBLE CURTAIN CARRIED BY SAID MOVABLE MEMBER AND HANGING DOWNWARDLY THEREFROM TOWARDS SAID TRACK; A SECOND FLEXIBLE CURTAIN CARRIED BY SAID MOVABLE MEMBER AND ALSO HANGING DOWNWARDLY THEREFROM TOWARDS SAID TRACK, SAID FIRST AND SECOND FLEXIBLE CURTAINS BEING SPACED APART FROM EACH OTHER IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID MOVABLE MEMBER AND DEFINING THEREBETWEEN A SPACE SUFFICIENTLY LARGE THAT AT LEAST ONE ANIMAL TO BE EXERCISED OR TRAINED MAY BE DISPOSED THEREBETWEEN FACING IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID MOVABLE MEMBER WITHOUT TOUCHING EITHER OF SAID FLEXIBLE CURTAINS, SAID FLEXIBLE CURTAINS BEING OF A WIDTH GREATER THAN THE WIDTH OF THE ANIMAL TO BE EXERCISED OR TRAINED AND A LENGTH SUCH THAT A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE ANIMAL TO BE EXERCISED OR TRAINED IS OVERLAPPED THEREBY, AT LEAST THE ONE OF THE FLEXIBLE CURTAINS WHICH MOVES AHEAD OF THE OTHER FLEXIBLE CURTAIN CONSTITUTING A MEANS TO PERMIT THE ANIMAL TO SEE A PORTION OF SAID TRACK AHEAD OF SAID ONE FLEXIBLE CURTAIN.