TURKEY CALL

• US 3,738,056 A
• Filed: 09/17/1971
• Issued: 06/12/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fred R. Schultz
• Original Assignee: Fred R. Schultz
• Inventors: Schultz, Fred R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chamblee, Hugh R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cutting, Robert F.
• Application Number:
  US05/181,541
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 46/178,179,180,1
• US Class Current: 446/202
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/004 Game callers

Abstract

A simplified molded plastic turkey call which includes male and female mating frame portions and a diaphragm extending in a taut condition from the male and female mating portions.

Claims

1. A bird call for turkeys and the like, comprising:

a. a generally U-shaped frame member having parallel legs and a curved connecting portion, and which frame member comprises abutting male and female mating portions;

b. a generally planar webbing extending outwardly from the exterior edge of the generally U-shaped frame member; and

c. a planar diaphragm the outer edges of which of the frame member to tautly secure the diaphragm thereto, which diaphragm extends substantially over the area defined between the legs of the U-shaped frame.

2. The bird call defined in claim 1, wherein the frame member is preferably a unitary molded piece with U-shaped male and female mating portions joined together at the respective extending ends of the arm of U-shaped portions by resilient hinge means which is bendable through a 180* arc, so that the male and female portions can be mated together in an assemblied position.

3. The bird call defined in claim 1, wherein the female mating portion has a channel formed therein, and the male mating portion a channel fitting projection whereby mating of the male and female portions is effected.

4. The bird call defined in claim 1, wherein the male and female mating portions are heat sealed togetheR forming the frame member.

5. The bird call defined in claim 1, wherein the generally U-shaped frame member is formed of polyethylene and the diaphragm of a rubberous latex material.

6. The bird call defined in claim 1, wherein the webbing extends in a plane continuous with the surface of one of the mating portions.