Amusement devices: toys – Operated by relatively moving fluid or pressure differential – Including mouthpiece for blowing or sucking
Reexamination Certificate
2001-09-25
2003-11-18
Banks, Derris H. (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Operated by relatively moving fluid or pressure differential
Including mouthpiece for blowing or sucking
C446S193000, C446S397000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06648716
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention generally relates to game calling and more particularly relates to manually operated game calls, and even more particularly relates to an apparatus and method for calling game using multiple pitch sounds and without blowing through a mouthpiece.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the past, hunters have used various devices to call game, such as the ubiquitous tube call, in which air is blown through a mouthpiece and over a reed to generate sound. Other calls have used a flexible bellows or bulb attached to a tube call to eliminate the need for blowing through the mouthpiece.
While these calls have many advantages, they also have significant drawbacks.
First of all, the skill required to successfully operate the tube call is often more than is possessed by inexperienced or infrequent hunters and game callers.
Secondly, moisture from the operator's breath often condenses within the tube call, which may adversely affect the sound produced by the call.
Thirdly, the calls using bellows and bulbs have often had limited operational characteristics, owing to the lessened control that a bellows often has in comparison to a mouth-blown call.
Consequently, there exists a need for improvement in game calling methods and apparatuses.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide an easily operated game call having pitch variation capabilities.
It is a feature of the present invention to include a reed plunger for controlling pitch.
It is an advantage of the present invention to allow for manipulation of the reed plunger in an easy to use fashion.
It is another advantage of the present invention to increase the certainty that the call will produce an appropriate sound.
It is yet another advantage of the present invention to provide for tuning of the call while in the field without the need for completely dismantling the call.
The present invention is an apparatus and method for calling game which is designed to satisfy the aforementioned needs, provide the previously stated objects, include the above-listed features and achieve the already articulated advantages. The present invention is carried out in an “error-less multi-pitch” approach in a sense that the amount of errant sounds, which often are produced by mufti-pitch calls, is dramatically reduced.
Accordingly, the present invention is an apparatus and method for calling game which includes a bellows and a manually operative reed plunger disposed within an air chamber coupled to the bellows, where the reed plunger provides for variation of sound produced by permitting variably controllable reed vibration states.
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Figure 1 of application No. 09/962,560.
Banks Derris H.
Cegielnik Urszula M.
Hunter's Specialties, Inc.
Simmons Perrine Albright & Ellwood, P.L.C.
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