Amusement devices: toys – Sounding
Patent
1997-09-15
1998-12-08
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Sounding
446404, A63H 500
Patent
active
058461191
ABSTRACT:
A wooden box call is modified to carry a strike plate on the back face of the lid/actuator. The strike plate allows use with conventional pegs or reeds, which are scraped against the strike plate to produce a mimic turkey call different from the mimic turkey call obtainable from the box call when used conventionally. Also, the reed or peg can be partly threaded and thus be screwed into a socket in the bottom of the box call such that flipping the lid/actuator allows alternate use between the conventional way box calls are used, and the way of the fixed peg/strike plate combination. More than one peg can be screwed into the bottom of the box call in order to get resonance between them. Resonating reeds can also be achieved by a stand-alone base block to which two or more reeds are attached like tines of a tuning fork. Additionally, if given a single threaded peg and a respective base block formed with a threaded through hole, the peg can be screwed or unscrewed in the through hole to change its free length to become relatively shorter or longer. That way, a user can tune the pitch of the reed by changing its free length. Moreover, the box call can be tuned by provision and use of various vibration dampers. These vibration dampers have arms which are deployable to rest against and dampen the sidewalls or sounding boards of the box call in order to allow tuning of the box call itself.
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Bay Jonathan A.
Hafer Robert A.
Muir D. Neal
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