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US 2014/0215776 A1Published application
Feather imping sysytem
OwnerAlbara Mohammed BINOTHMANinventor
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Abstract
A feather imping system includes a plurality of feather imping pins that attach a donor feather to a receiving feather. The feather imping pin is inserted into a receiving feather shaft of the receiving feather. Feather imping is performed using the feather imping pin that connects the donor feather and the receiving feather. The feather imping pin fits inside both the receiving feather shaft of the receiving feather and a donor feather shaft of the donor feather.
Claims10
A feather imping system, comprising:
- a plurality of feather imping pins of differing circumferences and lengths, each feather imping pin
- being made of a material that is as light and flexible as a nature bird feather and having a roughened surface, and
- having a plurality of teeth along the shaft and protruding outward from the shaft;
- a plurality of donor feathers of different circumferences and lengths so as to have donor feathers that match respective of the plurality of feather imping pins;
- a feather size measurement device that is configured to measure at least a circumference of a damaged bird feather that is to be repaired;
- a feather cutting device configured to separate a damaged portion from a remaining portion of the damaged bird feather;
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- a feather marker configured to mark a cut location on the damaged bird feather between the damaged portion and the remaining portion of the damaged bird feather, the selected pin having a circumference to fit within a hollow shaft of the natural bird feather so one end of the selected imping pin fits into the remaining portion of the natural bird feather and the other end of the selected imping pin fits into an exposed hollow shaft of a selected donor feather of the plurality of donor feathers, the exposed hollow shaft of the selected donor feather having a size that receives the other end of the selected imping pin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.