US 12,446,549 B1
Animal training bumper
Addison Edmonds, Nashville, TN (US); Gene Andrew Sparks, Nashville, TN (US); and Colton Gray Breeding, Nashville, TN (US)
Assigned to Edmonds Outdoors, LLC, La Vergne, TN (US)
Filed by Edmonds Outdoors, LLC, La Vergne, TN (US)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/636,407.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/459,655, filed on Apr. 16, 2023.
Int. Cl. A01K 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 15/025 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An animal training bumper apparatus, comprising:
a body with an axial passage extending between a first opening on a first end of the body and a second opening on a second end of the body opposite the first end, the axial passage defining a first passage on the first side of the body and a second passage on the second side of the body; and
a sleeve disposed in the second passage; and a handle disposed on the sleeve,
wherein the first passage has a first passage diameter,
wherein the second passage has a second passage diameter that is greater than the first passage diameter,
wherein the sleeve has an outer sleeve diameter that is greater than the first passage diameter,
wherein the handle is removable from the axial passage via the first opening,
wherein the handle is only removable from the axial passage upon removing the handle from the sleeve, and
wherein the handle is only removable from the sleeve upon advancing the sleeve through the second opening.