Mounting fish heads using the natural skin and jaws
OwnerDonald Czyzewskiinventor
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Abstract
A process for treating salmonid fish heads and skins utilizing an opening starting from a point generally near the fish's nose and ending at a point near the rear of the head. The opening facilitates access to the total underside of the headskin and the skull. It also permits the removal of the former from the latter. Placing the oil-containing skin in a solution of acetone, isopropyl alcohol, and water removes the oil and permits further use of the skin. The skull and skin can be reused as an undamaged, finished, mounted specimen, either alone or in combination with the other body parts of the fish.
Claims23
A method of mounting a fish head comprising:
- (A) removing the headskin from the skull of said fish without substantially altering the structure of said skull;
- (B) placing the removed headskin in a solution composed of a solute dissolved in a solvent that will dissolve and remove the oil in said skin;
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- (C) replacing the headskin from which said oil has been removed upon said substantially unaltered skull.
A method of treating the headskin of a fish for preservation, with said headskin including fish oil, said method comprising:
- (A) soaking a section of a removed headskin in a liquid miscible with said oil and with water;
- (B) afterwards soaking said skin in an aqueous solution;
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- (C) afterwards drying said skin.
A method of mounting a head of a salmonid fish comprising:
- (A) removing the headskin from the skull of said fish;
- (B) placing the removed headskin in a solution composed of a solute dissolved in a solvent that will dissolve and remove the oil in said skin;
- (C) placing the headskin from which said oil has been removed upon a rigid structure having substantially the same form as said skull.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.