US1508717A - Mobile figure - Google Patents

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G. W. PAGE Sept. 16 1924.

MOBILE FIGURE Filed Aug. 2, 1923 INVENTOR GEORG/H 11./ PQ

Patented Sept. l5, 1924 STATES PATENT FFIC'.

GEORGIA W. PAGE, 0F NEW-YORK, N. Y.

MOBILE FIGURE.

Appucatioamea August 2, 1923. serial No. 655,188.

fashioned and mounted as tobe readily movable, responsively to the elements. Further objects are to construct said device strongly and cheaply, so that while it will not be readily injured, for example, by being hit by bird shot when shot over asa decoy, yet the cost of its replacement is trifling.

With the foregoing objects in view'and also certain objects of structural utility and advantage as hereinafter pointed out, my invention consists in the representation, for example, of a bird or other creature, of light material; in the mounting of such figure in a hollow base by means consisting in part of a pivotally suspended counterweight, so that the figure will rock as the counter-weight oscillates; inv the proper# tioning of the counterweight to the weight an area of the ligure so that a light breeze will suffice to set the figure in motion, which motion will continue for an interval before the movable parts come to rest; in the pro vision of a rigid support for said base adapted to be stuck in the soil and to maintain the device firmly upright, so that it will not be readily overturned, as by the flow of ripples on the strand when stuck in the sand, and finally to provide suchy a base as will conceal but not interfere with the freely swinging pendant weight, and which base lends itself readily to concealment, as by being banked with sand or camoufiaged.

In the accompanying drawings formingV part of this specification is illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention. In these drawings, Figure 1 is a viewin vertical elevation of the device, underlying parts being shown in outline. Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2--2 of Figure 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.`

The rlike or same parts are indicated by like numerals in these figures, in which 1 is a silhouette of a conventionalized bird, mounted upon the twisted strip of sheet metal 2, formed with lugs 3 serving as 5. The strip 2 is slotted to receive'the disc 6, whichis preferably notched at 7 to receive the extremity 8 of the disc in such notch andy is oppositely notched at 9to rek, judgeonsjournaled in holes 4; in the casing ceive the tang 10 formed by extensions of the sidesof the slot, and serves to secure the disc in lplacey when bent back into `the plane of the strip 2. The casing 5 is formed as an oblongrectangle from a single piece of sheet metal bent, lappedand joined as at 11. Attached to the casing is the sup-` porting member '12, so formed as to e thrust easily into the ground and strengthened byjstiiiening flanges 18 which are af Y iiXed tothe casing, as by solder.

In the device as illustrated, the figure l is a stamping of sheet metal, slotted to receive the bent end of the strip 2', which is then bent over to secure the figure in place. This construction affords lightness of the moving parts, and by the knife-edge support by which the pendulum is suspended, renders the decoy sensitive to light breezes, as by the air ycurrents caused by breaking waves, when the decoy is set up on the beach, so that the figure comes slowly to rest. Y

The casing is preferably made open at th bottomfor drainage, as water would be held therein if a bottom were provided and the weight would be impeded. Y

While the mobile figure itself is shown as a silhouette, this is not intended as a limitationpthereto since such figure may be made in fuller representation of the bird or the like to` be decoyed, without departing from my invention, the spirit thereof being fulfilled if vthe figure is so light as to beV readily mobile responsive to light winds. ForV eX- ample, the figure may be hollow by molding from Celluloid, or may be of solid cork or fabricated; from any suitably light and preferably p waterproof material. Obviously,

when intended as a plaything, the representation need not be of a game bird, but may lin the sand where the ripples may partially submerge it, and cause it to function if the described my inventiom' and bottom, pivots on said strip consisting` .of extensions thereof seating in opeiungs'in said casing, the weight of the strip below the pivots being suficiently greater than the weight of the ligure and its support above the pivots to tend to maintain the ligure upright while permitting same to oscillate freer 1y, and means for maintaining the casing inr vertical position consisting of a downward extension thereof adapted to be thrust in the l ground. A-

2. A mobile decoy comprising a metallic silhouette, a metallic strip supporting said figure and twisted therebelow at right angles to itself, lugs upon said strip journaled in a casing, an extension of said strip below said lugs, a disc attached to-said strip and adapted to counterpoise said silhouette and said casing, the said casing consisting of a metal sheet bent to surround and enclose the disc and strip, excepting the upper end thereof, and having a projection adapted to be stuck in the ground.

3. A mobile decoy comprising a metallic silhouette, a metallic strip supporting said figure and twisted therebelow at right anglesv to itself, lugs upon saidfstrip journaled in a casing',` a slotted extension of said strip below said` lugs, a disc mounted in said slot and adapted to counterpoise said silhouette, the diameter of said discV exceeding the height of the slot, a tongue integral with said strip and extending downwardly into said slot and adaptedto seat in a recess in said disc .and to hold said disc within the slot and at right angles to said strip when arecess in the opposite side of the disc 'receives the lower edge of the slot; and the said casing, which said casing surrounds and encloses the disc and'V strip, excepting the upper end thereof.V

GEORGIA V. PAGE`

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