Interlocking detachable legs for taxidermy forms
OwnerBrian Harnessinventor
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Abstract
An assembly (10 and 12), the construction of which makes up a taxidermy core or form for small mammals, has a limbless main body (10) and attachable/detachable locking legs (12). Locking is predominantly achieved by a male post (14) inserting inside a female receptive lock (16). When the specimen animal is being mounted, the assembly's parts (10 and 12) are serially slid in through the taxidermist's working opening in the sock-like skin, the succession in general being forelimbs (12) first, then rear limbs (12) or the main body (10). The parts (10 and 12) once slid inside can be shifted about until the male posts (14) and the female receptive locks (16) are engaged. The positional stability of the legs (12) relative to the main body (10) is enhanced by a body key (18).
Claims20
An assembly, the construction of which makes up a taxidermy core or form for mounting the skin of a small mammal, comprising:
- a main body that lacks a plurality of limbs;
- and,
- a corresponding plurality of detached attachable limbs;
- wherein each of the plurality of detached attachable limbs extends between a body attachment end and a distal terminal end, which body attachment end comprises an integrally formed first docking formation that comprises one of a male post or a female socket;
- wherein the main body comprises a plurality of limb-attachment formations for each of the plurality of detached attachable limbs, of which each limb-attachment formation comprises an integrally formed second docking formation that comprises the other of a male post or a female socket for the respective first docking formation of the respective detached attachable limb;
- whereby the assembly can be constructed into a whole-animal taxidermy form by assembling together the detached attachable limbs with the main body inside a sock-like covering that is the skin of the specimen small-mammal to be mounted.
A method of taxidermy to produce mountings of small mammals, characterized by a taxidermist at some original time preparing a skin of the specimen to be mounted in the form of a sock-like covering having a main incision openable to a size not much larger than necessary to the largest size of a mock torso of the specimen to be mounted, comprising the steps of:
- providing an assembly, the construction of which makes up a taxidermy core or form for mounting the skin of the specimen to be mounted, wherein said assembly comprises a main body that lacks a plurality of limbs;
- and, a corresponding plurality of detached attachable limbs;
- wherein each of the plurality of detached attachable limbs extends between a body attachment end and a distal terminal end, which body attachment end comprises an integrally formed first docking formation that comprises one of a male post or a female socket;
- wherein the main body comprises a plurality of limb-attachment formations for each of the plurality of detached attachable limbs, of which each limb-attachment formation comprises an integrally formed second docking formation that comprises the other of a male post or a female socket for the respective first docking formation of the respective detached attachable limb;
- inserting the detachable limbs and main body into the sock-like covering that is the skin of the specimen to be mounted through the incision therein;
- assembling together the detached attachable limbs with the main body within the sock-like covering that is the skin of the specimen to be mounted into a whole-animal taxidermy form;
- and, sewing the incision shut.
A taxidermy assembly, the construction of which makes up a whole-animal form for mounting the skin of a specimen animal to be mounted, comprising:
- a main body that lacks a major portion of a limb;
- and,
- a detached attachable limb portion that corresponds to what the major body lacks;
- wherein the detached attachable limb portion extends between a base-attachment end and a distal terminal end, which base-attachment end comprises an integrated first formation that comprises one of a male post or a female socket;
- wherein the main body comprises a corresponding limb-attachment formation for the detached attachable limb portion, which limb-attachment formation includes an integrated second formation that comprises the other of a male post or a female socket for the respective first formation of the respective detached attachable limb;
- whereby the assembly can be constructed into a whole-animal form by assembling together the detached attachable limb portion with the main body inside a sock-like covering that is the skin of the specimen animal to be mounted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.