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US 7,458,875 B1Granted
Leg mounted turkey pan call with opposing sound ports
AssigneeHunter's Specialties, Inc.
InventorsDavid R Forbes, Carman S Forbes, Ron M Bean
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Abstract
A system and method for generating game sounds in a directionally adjustable manner which includes a friction pan call of the type having a circular flat top playing surface and a plurality of holes on generally opposing sides of a substantially cylindrical sound chamber wall, and a method whereby holes or portion of a hole are successively closed in an incremental rotating manner around the call so as to help to create a sound emulating a moving sound source.
Claims20
A method of using a game call;
- providing a smooth flat substantially circular calling surface, with a top side and a bottom side;
- the top side being provided for interaction with a striker for generation of sound;
- providing a support, comprising a top end and a bottom end, the support being hollow and configured to accept therein some, but not all of any sound originating from the smooth flat substantially circular calling surface;
- providing a pair of sound projecting openings disposed on opposing sides of said support;
- the pair of sound projecting openings being sized and oriented so as to be able to be covered by portions of a human hand;
- providing a sound projecting aperture, disposed within said support, and substantially centrally disposed between said pair of sound projecting openings;
- covering the pair of sound projecting openings so as to inhibit sound from projecting outwardly through said pair of sound projecting openings;
- and
- striking a striker on the top side so as to generate sound which propagates, in part, downwardly and into the support and causing sound to project through said sound projecting aperture.
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A game call comprising:
- a disk-shaped flat calling surface, configured to produce wild animal sounds when contacted by a striker;
- a support coupled to the disk-shaped flat calling surface, the support comprising a top end comprising a substantially circular cylinder end;
- a bottom end and a side wall disposed between the top end and the bottom end;
- the support configured to elevate the disk-shaped flat calling surface above a user's leg;
- the support further configured to reflect sound generated by the disk-shaped flat calling surface;
- the support further sized to provide selective directional projecting of sound through a plurality of openings in the side wall of the support;
- at least two of said plurality of openings being sized, configured and located so as to be simultaneously covered by a single user's hand;
- and
- the support further configured to be strapped to the user's leg by coupling a first strap end with a second strap end.
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A method of using a game call to call wild game, comprising the steps of:
- providing a game call comprising a top playing surface, a support configured to elevate the game call above a user's leg, the support comprising a first sound projecting opening and a second sound projecting opening disposed on opposing sides of the support, a sound projecting aperture disposed centrally with respect to said first sound projecting opening and said second sound projecting opening;
- strapping the game call to the user's leg;
- repeatedly causing a striker to contact the top playing surface;
- and thereby generate sounds;
- and
- while sound is being generated by contact with the top playing surface, covering the first sound projecting opening and the second sound projecting opening with a user's hand while leaving the sound projecting aperture unobstructed and free to project sound from the support, thereby altering a directional characteristic of sound projecting from the support.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.