US1157627A

US1157627A - Decoy.

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Publication number: US1157627A
Application number: US82988114A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert Koyen; Frank B Snyder
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-04-06
Filing date: 1914-04-06
Publication date: 1915-10-19
Anticipated expiration: 1932-10-19

Description

A. KOYEN 81 F. B. SNYDER.

DEGOY.

APPLICATION FILED APR.6, 1914.

1,157,627.. Patenfed 001. 19. 1915.

l I L P/ ALBERT. seria s ens FRANK SNYDER. r ER M M. NEBRASKA- nnco r.

Application filed April 6,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT KoYEN and FRANK B. SNYDER, citizens of the United States,residing at Fremont, in the. county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Decoys, of

Y which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a floating decoy provided with a chamber in its body portion adapted to receive the head and other attachments whereby a numberv of the decoys can be strung upon a special carrier and carried about or shipped either with or without a protective casing. 4

Another object isto provide a decoy that will properly head up under all tidal and wind conditions, and in which the head may. be turned to several positions to better. simulate a liveduck or other bird.

With these and other objects in View as will be hereinafter more fully pointed out, reference is had to the accompanying. drawingsv forming. a part of this specificatlon and wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views in which Figure 1 is a view. partly in vertical section and partly in side elevationof the decoy resting upon the water, Fig.2 is a bottom plan view of the head and other attachments nested in the body chamber, Fig. 3, is a vertical sectional View throughFig'. 2, Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the head attaching device on a fragment of the body, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the head, Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the head attaching fragment of the body with the head clip engaged therewith, the head being omitted, and Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view of the carrying device and casing with the decoys in place therein.

The body 1, consists of a member formed from some buoyant material and having a substantially flat base 2, and the remaining portion in simulation of the body of a bird. Near the center of the body, a chamber is formed in the body and opening in the base. This chamber 3 is of the general outline of the head and does not extend entirely through the body 1, there being left a thin back portion 4, which may be integral or a separate plate for convenience in manufacture. At a convenient point, preferably where the bill and neck of the head 5 join, a finger pocket 3 is provided to facilitate removal of the head, At a suitable point, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedQct. 19, 1915.

1914. Serial No. 829,881.

chamber 3 is supplemented by a second cutout portion forming a weight pocket 6, into which is placed the anchor weight 7 the latter being suitably attached to the body by a cord 8. When the head is nested, it is preferable to wrap the cord around the head in such a manner as to not only hold the weight in its pocket'6, but so that the cord passing between the head and side walls of chamber- 8 forms a protection to the paint of the head against chafing and at the same time serve to lightly bind the head in place. If desired, the side of the chamber wall may be slightly cut-out or recessed as at 9 in Fig. 3, though not necessarily so, and the head forced toward this cut-out 9 by the head attaching spring clip 10 bearing against the opposite wall of the chamber 3, said latter wall also if desired being cut-out or recessed as at 11. From the foregoing it can be seen that the decoys can be carried around single, without the carrier of Fig. 7 which will be later described, and in a compact and convenient form i The forward portion of the upper side of the body is provided with a cut-out portion forming a recess 12 across which extends a cross bar 14 forming one member of a separable fastener and being suitably held in place withits upper face flush with that of the body. To the under side of the head, the said spring clip 10 is secured,'the same forming the other member of a separable fastener and consisting of a piece of spring wire having its terminal ends inserted into the head and both branches 15 bent forwardly and slightly downwardly to engage beneath the said cross bar. The forward ends of these branches then extend rearwardly and upwardly into a plane above the branches 15 forming branches 16 which likewise engage beneath the said cross bar 14. These branches then continue rearwardly forming portions 17, which when the head is disconnected from the body lie flat upon the bottom face of the head portion 5, as illustrated in Fig. 5. When the head is in place on the body, the cross bar 14C depresses the

branches

16 and 17 directly and the branches 15 indirectly, and separation of the clip 10 and cross bar 14: cannot easily occur accidentally. As indicated in Fig. 6, the head may be turned to several positions, as in all positions one or the other of said branches engages the said crossbar. It will be of course clear that the head. may be entirely reversed.

cated by'numeral 21, and it will be noted that before this can be done, the head must first be detached. Said bars may be connected together at' one end in any suitable manner as by integral member 24 and at the other end they are connected with a suitable handle'25. In this arrangement, the decoys may be carried frcm place to place by the described carrier alone, or, as in shipment,

' a casing 26 having cover 27 may be assooi-ated therewith, the decoys being placed Within the box or casing and the bars 20 passed through bcth the decoys and casing and its cover. Of course it will be understood that when so piled one upon the other, the heads 5 are nested in the chambers 3.

In use, it will be found that the chamber 3 inthe b ttom of the decoy materially assists the device in properly heading before thewind and current so that all of the de coys of the artificial flock will point the same therein against movement when the head is in the receiving chamber.

2. In a decoy, a body having a substantially horizontal bar secured to the upper portion thereof with a portion of the bar spaced fr(m a portion of the body; a head; and a resilient clip secured to the head and embodying an arm angularly arranged with relation to the head and adapted for engagement beneath the bar.

3. A decoy, comprising a body and a detachable head, a resilient member for attaching the head to the body, the body having a storage chamber therein to receive the head, said resilient member being engageable with the walls of said chamber to hold the head therein against movement with relation thereto.

4:. A decoy, comprising a body having a head receiving chamber in its bottom open for the entrance of the water of a stream, a separable fastener member on the upper side of the body, a head, and a complementary separable fastener member on the head for engagement with the first mentioned separable fastener member, said complementary separable fastener member being resilient and adapted to engage with one wall of the head receiving chamber to hold the head within the chamber when the head is in said chamber.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT KOYEN. FRANK B. SNYDER. lVitnesses:

PAUL W. MnNenL, ALMA LOIS BEx'roN.

- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

- Washington, D. G."