US2525120A

US2525120A - Decoy attaching bracket

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Publication number: US2525120A
Application number: US683271A
Authority: US
Inventors: Burrell R Ernst
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1946-07-12
Filing date: 1946-07-12
Publication date: 1950-10-10
Anticipated expiration: 1967-10-10

Description

Oct. 10, 1950 B. R. ERNST DECOY ATTACHING BRACKET Filed July 12, 1946 Patented Oct. 10, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DECOY ATTACHINGTVBRACKET Burrell It. Ernst, Coleraine, Minn. 7 Application July 12,1946, Serial No. 683,271

This invention relates to a means of holding a decoy in a lifelike position while attached to an anchoring rod suspended from one or a plurality of decoys.

Some of the principal objectsof the instant invention are to provide a more simple, sturdy and efficient attachment for holding a decoy to an anchoring rod.

Another object is to provide such a simple bracket as will permit of most natural bobbing up and down of the decoy and one free entirely of any unnatural rolling or rocking of the decoy.

Still another object is to provide such a bracket as may be conveniently attached either directly to a horizontally disposed rod below the surface of the water in which a plurality of decoys are set, or to a lateral T-shaped extension from said rod to avoid the same being tooivisible from above or, to an elongated bight-like extension from said rod.

Other objects may appear during the further description of the invention.-

In the drawing forming part of this application:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a tilted decoy with one of my improved brackets attached thereto,

and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the bracket illustrative of different ways of applying same to an anchoring rod or the like.

The reference numeral l represents the decoy having the fiat bottom 2 common to many types of decoys.

The bracket involved in the invention is represented by the

numerals

3, 4, and 6, they being representative of the four major integral parts thereof. The flat horizontal portion 3 which is designed to contact the fiat bottom 2 of the decoy is provided with any desired number of screw holes I for such attachment to the decoy.

The vertical portion 4 is provided with the openings or

slots

8, 8, and a central slot 9 through the lower extremity thereof, the function of which latter will be described later.

The arcuately turned up portion 6 is bifurcated by the continuation of the slot 9 and in each of the uppermost termini of such bifurcated portions is formed a notch l0 aligned each with its respective slot 8, thus forming the trough-like member 5, adapted for the reception of either the cross member ll of the T-shaped extension l2 from the rod l3, the upper member of the elongated loop l4 extending from the rod, or the rod itself.

Now as a keeper for that horizontal portion of either one of the extensions from the rod I3 just described, or the rod itself, is provided the spring 11 Claims.

wire bight or loop l5, the leg members l6, l6, of

which are, after the bracket is applied to the decoy, thrust through the

slots

8, 8, and the notches H), Ill, and made fast at their respective flattened extremities I! to the bottom of the decoy.

These flattened portions are so bent and shaped that when so fastened the bight or loop l5 of the keeper will extend a convenient distance forwardly of the bracketso as to provide suitable manipulating means in compressing same towards the decoy in either attaching or detaching the same.

In Fig. 1, I have illustrated how one of the lengths of the anchored rod [3 may be connected as at It! when it may be desirable to arrange groups of three or four decoys facing in different angular directions.

Having thus described one practical embodiment of the invention, what I claim is:

- 1. A decoy anchor for use with an anchoring rod comprising an attaching bracket and means for anchoring the said bracket on said rod, said bracket comprising a body portion of substantially J-shape in side elevational view and being adapted to be secured to a decoy, characterized by the lower horizontal portion thereof being turned up forming a trough-like receiving member for temporary holding of a horizontally disposed portion of said anchoring rod, said troughlike member having associated therewith a thumb operable spring member for selectively holding other parts of said anchoring rod in said troughlike member.

2. A decoy anchor foruse with an anchoring rod comprising an attaching bracket and means to hold said bracket secured to said rod, said bracketcomprising a body portion of substantially J-shape and being secured to the underside of a decoy, characterized by the lower horizontal portion being turned up forming a trough-like receiving member for temporary holding of a horizontally disposed portion of said anchoring rod, said trough-like member having associated therewith a thumb operable spring member for selectively holding other parts of said anchoring rod in said trough-like member, said thumb operating spring being of bifurcated form, having both ends extending through said bracket and fixed to the under face of said decoy.

3. A holding bracket for attaching a'decoy to an anchoring rod, a body portion of substantially J-shape in vertical central sectional View, the upper portion being horizontal and flat for attachment to the flat bottom of a decoy, with the; central vertically disposed portion of fiat form and depending at right angles thereto and provided with two spaced vertically disposed slotlike holes therethrough, correspondingly shaped notches within the upper edge of the turned up end of the bracket aligned with each of said holes, and an elongated U-shaped spring wire tongue with the arms thereof resting in said notches and extending through said openings and adapted to be fixed to said decoy, said turned up portion adapted for temporarily holding a horizontally disposed portion of said anchoring rod and to be thumb operated.

4. A decoy anchoring bracket and means for anchoring said bracket to an anchoring rod comprising a body portion having its lower end turnedup to form a trough, the upper portion of said body portion being adapted to be attached to the bottom of a decoy, the central portion thereof being disposed downwardly from said upper portion and provided with a slot, and said means for anchoring said bracket to an anchoring rod comprising an elongated spring wire adapted to be fixed at one end to the bottom of the decoy with the opposite end thereof extending through said slot and engaging the turned up portion of said body portion for temporarily holding a portion of an anchoring rod within the trough formed by the turned up lower end of said body portion.

5. In a device for attaching a decoy to an anchoring rod; a bracket comprising means to attach said bracketto the bottom of a decoy, a

central portion depending from said attaching means, and a lower portion of substantially trough shape to receive said rod; and means adapted to be secured to said decoy for temporarily holding said rod within said trough extending transversely of said trough shaped portion and biased toward the latter to hold said rod therein.

6. In a device for attaching a decoy to an anchoring rod; a bracket comprising an upper portion adapted to be attached to the bottom of a decoy, a central portion depending from said upper portion, and a lower-portion of substantially trough shape to receive said rod;- and means for temporarily holding said rod within said trough comprising a spring member adapted to be fixed to the bottom of the decoy at one end and having its opposite end extendin transversely of said trough shaped portion and biased to hold said rod therein.

7. A device for attaching a decoy to an anchoring rod comprising in combination a bracket and anchoring means, said bracket comprising a trough portion to receive said rod, a portion upstanding therefrom, and means at the upper end of said upstanding portion to secure said bracket to a decoy, and said anchoring means comprising a spring member adapted to be secured to a decoy to extend transversely in relation to said trough portion and being biased toward the latter to retain said rod therein.

8. The structure as set forth in claim 7 and said bracket having a slot therein through which said spring member extends when in operating position.

9. The structure as set forth in claim 7 and said trough portion havin a notch therein to guide said spring member.

10. A device for attaching a decoy to an anchoring rod comprising in'combination, a bracket and a spring keeper, said bracket adapted to be fixed to the bottom of said decoy and having a troughlike lower portion to receive said rod, and said keeper being adapted to be secured to said decoy, extending transversely of said trough-like portion, and being biased toward the latter to retain said rod therein.

11. The structure as set forth in claim 10 and said trough-lil'ie portion being adapted to be horizontally disposed transversely of said decoy.

BURRELL R. ERNST.

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