Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Decoys – Duck
Patent
1994-10-18
1996-10-22
Elpel, J.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Decoys
Duck
446155, 446163, A01M 3106
Patent
active
055664911
ABSTRACT:
An animating device is attached underneath a floating waterfowl decoy that creates rings, ripples, and waves on the water surface emanating from said decoy giving the appearance that said decoy is alive. In accordance with one embodiment of the device, a long, flexible plastic tube is attached or retrofit to the keel of an existing floating decoy. An apparatus, such as a motor driven pump, a pressurized air cylinder, or a hand- or foot-operated bellows air pump supplies air to the tube and a one-way check valve is provided in the end of tube attached to the decoy to prevent water from back-filling the long flexible plastic tube. Air forced through the long flexible plastic tube bubbles out underneath the decoy and the rising bubbles create rings, ripples, and waves on the water surface to give the appearance that the decoy is alive. In another embodiment, the tube is attached to flexible container mounted under the decoy. Air entering the container causes it to expand and tilt the decoy which create rings, ripples, and waves on the water surface to give the appearance that the decoy is alive.
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1994-1995 Michigan Hunting and Trapping Guide, Michigan Dep't of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division, 1994, p. 26.
U.S. PTO Disclosure Document 353394, Dated Apr. 29, 1994.
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