Harmonica-style goose call

• US 10,440,945 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2014
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kelly Ovayuak
• Original Assignee: Kelly Ovayuak
• Inventors: Ovayuak, Kelly
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Eugene L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hylinski, Alyssa M
• Application Number:
  US14/504,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20150093959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,839 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/004 Game callers

Abstract

A harmonica-style goose call is described. A user assumes a blow position and by blowing through a blow space onto a diaphragm which vibrates and emits a tone. The blow space is made from interior profiles of varying depth on engaged housings. This permits the user to alter the pitch of the tone by selectively altering the blow position. In this way, the user can imitate the sound of a goose by altering the blowing three and the blow position.

Claims

1. A harmonica-style goose call, comprising:

a body comprising a first housing and a second housing, the body having a first end, a second end, and a length between the first end and the second end, each of the first and second housings having an exterior surface and an interior surface;

a first supporting and clamping member at the first end of the body, and a second supporting and clamping member at the second end of the body;

a profile on a portion of each of the interior surface of the first housing and the interior surface of the second housing between the first supporting and clamping member and the second supporting and clamping member, the body being assembled such that the interior surface of the first housing is adjacent to the interior surface of the second housing,

the profile of the first housing and the profile of the second housing collectively defining a blow space having a first end toward the first end of the body, a second end toward the second end of the body, and a height between the profile of the first housing and the profile of the second housing, wherein at least the profile of the first housing comprises an undulating profile such that the height of the blow space is continuous and variable between the first end and the second end of the blow space and such that the blow space has a centrally located height reduction; and

a flexible diaphragm positioned within the blow space and stretched between the respective first supporting and clamping members and respective second supporting and clamping members,

the undulating profile approaching the flexible diaphragm at the centrally located height reduction of the height of the blow space such that a user, assuming a blow position and blowing through the blow space, causes the diaphragm to vibrate and emit a tone, the varying height of the blow space permitting the user to alter the pitch of the tone by selectively altering the blow position to imitate a goose call.

2. The harmonica-style goose call of claim 1, wherein each of the profile of the first housing and the profile of the second housing are undulating profiles.

3. The harmonica-style goose call of claim 1, wherein a width dimension of the first housing and the second housing is less than 0.7874 inches (2 centimeters).

4. The harmonica-style goose call of claim 1, wherein the flexible diaphragm is an elastic band that is substantially the same width as the first housing and the second housing.

5. The harmonica-style goose call of claim 1, wherein the continuous, variable height blow space is symmetrical about the centrally located height reduction.

6. The harmonica-style goose call of claim 1, wherein the exterior surfaces of the body have a substantially constant height along the length of the body adjacent to the blow space.