Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Decoys
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-27
2001-07-31
Ark, Darren W. (Department: 3643)
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Decoys
C043S003000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06266912
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates, but is not limited to, the use of half shell duck, goose, turkey, or other fowl decoys on land. More specifically, the present invention relates to the activation of virtually all half shell decoys for which mounting, motion, and staking systems are rarely supplied using the device now presented.
Decoys have been used to lure quarry for centuries. In recent decades, a number of patents have been granted for moveable, pivotal, self-aligning fowl decoys, and various stake mounting devices. Of those referenced above, the “Self-Heading Wild Fowl Decoys” of Barrett, U.S. Pat. No. 3,800,457, the “Self-Aligning Decoy” of Gagnon, Sr., U.S. Pat. No. 4,893,428, and the “Mounting Assembly for Decoys” of Farstad, U.S. Pat. No. 5,392,554 are most notable, yet quite complex and have proven impractical for mass production. None of the patents so noted, nor any of those referenced, offers such an economical and simple, yet unique, method for the utilization of natural forces, gravity and wind, while allowing for the use of other forces as well, both manual or mechanical, in the activation of the mounted decoy, as that now offered with the present invention. Additionally, nothing has been discovered which resembles the device herein presented, a device which converts gravitational forces exerted on the mounted decoy into horizontal rotational movement of the mounted decoy.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The principle object of the present invention is to provide a mounting, motion, and staking device for use with virtually all half shell type fowl decoys, a device which allows the user to determine the at rest facing direction of the decoy so mounted thereon, and which further allows the mounted decoy to rotate thereon in response to horizontal and gravitational forces applied thereto.
The object is accomplished in the present invention inasmuch as absent any horizontal force, the force of gravity causes the mounted decoy assembly to always assume a predetermined at rest facing direction and position as selected by the user, while yet allowing the mounted decoy to rotate in response to horizontal forces when such forces are sufficient to overcome the gravitational forces always present, and further allowing it to return to its at rest position when such horizontal forces are reduced or eliminated.
A final object of the present invention is to provide a mounting, motion, and staking device which has simplified and universal application for virtually all half shell type decoys. This object has been accomplished inasmuch as all such known decoys can be mounted to this device herein presented and can fully benefit from all of its mounting, pivoting, and staking features.
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