Land vehicles – Wheeled – Tiltable vehicles – stabilized by attendant or article
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-07
2001-12-04
DePumpo, Daniel G. (Department: 3611)
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Tiltable vehicles, stabilized by attendant or article
C280S652000, C280S047180
Reexamination Certificate
active
06325395
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of wheeled transport devices in general, and in particular to a wheeled cart having flotation features that allow decoys to be floated out to a water blind.
2. Description of Related Art
As can be seen by reference to the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,313,817; 5,492,346; 5,611,561; 5,660,296; and 5,660,403, the prior art is replete with myriad and diverse wheeled cart constructions for transporting miscellaneous items.
While all of the aforementioned prior art constructions are more than adequate for the basic purpose and function for which they have been specifically designed, they are uniformly deficient with respect to their failure to provide a simple, efficient, and practical device that can be used to transport waterfowl decoys to and from a place of use.
As most waterfowl hunters are all too well aware, the most labor intensive aspect of their pursuit is the hauling of a sufficient number of waterfowl decoys to and from a blind site to potentially insure a successful day of hunting.
Unfortunately, one of the practical realities of waterfowl hunting revolves around the fact that the larger the number of decoys employed, the greater the probability that the birds will come into the decoy set up.
As a consequence of the foregoing situation, there has existed a longstanding need among water fowlers for a new and improved type of waterfowl decoy transporting device that is equally effective in traversing corn stalk stubble, marsh grasses, mud flats, and expanses of water, and the provision of such a construction is a stated objective of the present invention.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Briefly stated, the decoy transporting device that forms the basis of the present invention comprises in general, a wheel assembly unit, a buoyancy unit, a collapsible enclosure unit and a towing bar unit. The wheel assembly unit, the collapsible enclosure unit, and the towing bar unit are all releasably associated with the buoyancy unit.
As will be explained in greater detail further on in the specification, the wheel assembly unit includes a pair of narrow gauge large diameter wheels that elevate the remainder of the transport device at a sufficient height that the bottom of the buoyancy unit will not encounter substantial resistance from vegetation, such as cut corn stalks, and marsh grasses and the slim wheel profile will also facilitate the transport of the device over most mud flats with minimal resistance.
In addition, since the wheel assembly unit is removably attached to the buoyancy unit, the wheel assembly can be quickly detached from the remainder of the device when very shallow bodies of water must be traversed to get to a blind site.
As will also be explained in greater detail further on in the specification, both the buoyancy unit and the collapsible enclosure unit are provided with self-draining features so that water will flow freely through the device as it is being towed across a body of water to substantially eliminate fluid drag on the device. The handle unit comes in a variety of configurations to accommodate both manual and mechanized transport of the device.
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DePumpo Daniel G.
Henderson & Sturm LLP
McClellan James S.
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