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US 7,866,072 B2Granted
Game animal tag and method of use
OwnerSilvio A. Diliscia, Ronald E. Mooney, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
A game animal tagging apparatus includes a substantially transparent flexible plastic strip having a front side, a back side, and predetermined dimensions, with a pocket member disposed on a portion of the front side. The plastic strip has at least one wing portion and an adhesive covers at least 20 percent of the front side of the plastic strip, and a removable protective member covers at least all of the adhesive.
Claims11
A game animal tagging apparatus comprising:
- a) a substantially transparent flexible plastic strip having a front side, a back side, and predetermined dimensions;
- b) a pocket portion disposed on said front side of said plastic strip and formed by attaching a rectangular film along three edges of said rectangular film to said plastic strip;
- c) at least one wing portion of said flexible plastic strip disposed adjacent said pocket portion of said flexible strip;
- d) at least two adhesive areas covering at least 20 percent of said front side adjacent opposing ends of said flexible plastic strip;
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- e) at least one removable protective member covering at least said adhesive area on said at least one wing portion.
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A method of securing a hunter's license tag to a harvested game animal comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a flexible transparent plastic strip having a pocket portion disposed on a front side;
- b) providing said plastic strip with at least one wing portion;
- c) providing said at least one wing portion with a first adhesive area covering at least a portion of said wing portion;
- d) providing a second adhesive area on an opposing portion of said front side;
- e) providing said adhesive areas with removable protective members;
- f) placing a hunter's game identification tag inside said pocket portion;
- g) removing said removable protective members;
- h) locating an elongated portion of such harvested game animal;
- i) adhering one of said first and second adhesive areas of said front side onto said elongated portion with said pocket member facing said elongated portion;
- j) wrapping a remainder of said flexible plastic strip around said elongated portion, and
- k) adhering an opposing adhesive-covered area of said front side against at least one of said flexible plastic strip and said elongated portion of such harvested game animal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.