Amusement devices: toys – Operated by relatively moving fluid or pressure differential – Including mouthpiece for blowing or sucking
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-03
2001-05-15
Muir, D. Neal (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Operated by relatively moving fluid or pressure differential
Including mouthpiece for blowing or sucking
C446S397000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06231418
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a wildlife game call and, more particularly, to a single call device used to imitate the calls of a wide variety of game and species.
2. Description of the Related Art
Animal calling devices have been in use by hunters and sportsman since the beginning of time. It was thought that native Americans and even cavemen utilized some form of animal calling or mimicking device. These animal calling devices come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and configurations and are well-known in the related art.
Most of these devices are blown or whistled into to produce a sound or call that will attract an animal or type of species. Representative devices are described in patents issued to Marsters (U.S. Pat. No. 623,728), Harbin (U.S. Pat. No. 2,182,692), Carhart (U.S. Pat. No. 2,584,549), Mobley (U.S. Pat. No. 3,029,554), Gallagher (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,030,241 and 4,221,075), Laubach (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,637,154 and 4,761,149) and Parrott et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 5,222,903).
Some of these devices are specifically designed to attract a specific animal or species. For example, the patents issued to Carhart (U.S. Pat. No. 2,584,549), Ady (U.S. Pat. No. Des. 312,056) and Laubach (U.S. Pat. No. 4,761,149) describe apparatuses designed to attract deer and elk, while the patents issued to Harbin (U.S. Pat. No. 2,182,692) and Marsters (U.S. Pat. No. 623,728) describe apparatuses designed to attract hawks and other birds.
Many devices are made of materials that are easily affected by outside elements and temperature extremes. The two patents issued to Gallagher (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,030,241 and 4,221,075) utilize elastic bands that can easily lose their elasticity over time, and are subject to breaking under cold or cool conditions. The orifices of these devices are subject to cracking or splitting when bit down upon in cold or cool conditions as well.
Inherent design problems are also reflected in devices described in the related art. For example, in the patent to Laubach (U.S. Pat. No. 4,761,149), the bowed shape at each end of the rectangular device has a physical separation of about one-half inch. The separation places the planar members farther apart, such that more biting pressure is required to flex the opening closed to achieve the desired tone. This causes mouth fatigue over a period of time, and more difficulty in achieving consistent sounds from the Laubach device, due to the “room for error” that is caused by the larger opening being manipulated. This can be so difficult as to cause an upper denture (if worn by the user) to pop loose from the palate in the roof of the mouth.
What is needed is a game calling device that can replicate the call of a variety of game, have a trapezoidal shape and independently operable band reeds in the same device, be constructed of materials that can perform consistently in extreme conditions, be well-designed to expel condensate and saliva from the device, and have an orifice that is easy to operate.
None of the above inventions and patents, taken either singularly or in combination, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed. Thus a wildlife game call solving the aforementioned problems is desired.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The instant invention, which we prefer to name the “Calls-M-All” multitone game call, describes a trapezoidal-shaped game call device with a tapered polypropylene body design and aperture to expel condensate and saliva. The top and bottom members of the body of the device are hinged together by a living hinge on one side and the other side includes a friction grunter that can be rubbed against a hard surface to produce a second game call. Rubber bands with a high percentage of rubber by weight are used as elastic reeds to insure consistency and a silicon O-ring is also used to attach the unhinged sides of the top and bottom members together and further stabilize the frictional grunter. In a preferred method of manufacture, the two sides with the living hinge and friction grunter are molded as a one-piece, monolithic unit. A lanyard can also be attached to the device for convenient transport.
It is a principal object of the invention to provide a versatile calling device that can imitate a wide variety of game calls.
It is an object of the invention to provide a game calling device including two distinct reed-type calls, a separate, third friction grunter call, and enlarged drain openings for saliva so that the calling device can function no matter how often used.
It is a further object of the invention to develop a game calling device made of materials that will not be affected by extreme weather conditions.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a better designed game calling device.
Yet a further object of the invention is to provide a game calling device molded of a suitable plastics material, with two halves joined together by a living hinge, the opposite side of the calling device including a friction grunter.
It is an object of the invention to provide improved elements and arrangements thereof for the purposes described which is inexpensive, dependable and fully effective in accomplishing its intended purposes.
These and other objects of the present invention will become readily apparent upon further review of the following specification and drawings.
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Bowers Jack
Hancock Bruce J.
Litman Richard C.
Muir D. Neal
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