Duck decoy with landing motion

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2001-10-23

2003-09-30

Jordan, Charles T. (Department: 3644)

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Decoys

Duck

Reexamination Certificate

active

06625919

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to wildlife decoys and more particularly, this invention pertains to decoys for simulating the motion of birds.
Several United States Patents are illustrative of prior art decoys for waterfowl. These include U.S. Pat. No. 740,293, issued to Loeble on Sep. 9, 1908, entitled Decoy; U.S. Pat. No. 2,849,823, issued to Miller on Sep. 2, 1958, entitled Motor Operated Fowl Decoy; U.S. Pat. No. 4,893,428, issued to Gagnon on Jan. 16, 1990, entitled Self-Aligning Decoy; U.S. Pat. No. 4,896,448, issued to Jackson on Jan. 30, 1990, entitled Bird Decoy With Motor Drive Wings; U.S. Pat. No. 4,965,953, issued to McKinney on Oct. 30, 1990, entitled Remote Controlled Turkey Decoy; U.S. Pat. No. 5,377,439, issued to Roos et al. on Jan. 3, 1995, entitled Remote Controlled Decoy; U.S. Pat. No. 5,809,683, issued to Solomon on Sept. 22, 1998, entitled Battery-Powered Apparatus to Provide Movable Wings and Feet on Waterfowl Decoys, Including Method of Assembly; U.S. Pat. No. 5,862,619, issued to Stencil on Jan. 26, 1999, entitled Animated Water Fowl Decoy; U.S. Pat. No. 5,930,936, issued to Parr et al. on Aug. 3, 1999, entitled Waterfowl Decoy; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,092,323, issued to McBride et al. on Jul. 25, 2000, entitled Duck Decoy. These patents are hereby incorporated by reference. These prior art patents fail to teach the advantages of the present invention. Thus, what is needed, then, is a Motion Decoy with Angular Action for simulating a moving bird.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention teaches a bird attraction device that simulates the movement of a bird in relation to a surface, such as when a bird either lands or takes off from water. This natural movement is at an angle to the surface and is neither purely vertical or horizontal. The present device mimics this movement with a decoy mounted on a transport arm. The device is mounted on a support base and uses a transport arm pivotally mounted to the support base to provide a simulated angle movement for an attached decoy. As the arm is pivoted on the base, the decoy is moved closer and/or farther away from the surface along the arc movement of the arm. This simulates the angular movement of either the landing or take off of a bird. When used over water, the limits of movement for the decoy can be set up to allow the decoy to impact the water to create a splash such as a water fowl landing on the water. Similarly, when the decoy leaves the water, this will create a ripple effect for takeoff. A method for using the decoy is also described.


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patent: 5375363 (1994-12-01), Higdon
patent: 5377439 (1995-01-01), Roos et al.
patent: 5809683 (1998-09-01), Solomon
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patent: 5951406 (1999-09-01), Steane
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patent: 5974720 (1999-11-01), Bowling
patent: 6092323 (2000-07-01), McBride et al.

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