Detachable dispenser for distributing scent or lure

• US 5,148,949 A
• Filed: 05/02/1991
• Issued: 09/22/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Frank Luca
• Original Assignee: Frank Luca
• Inventors: Luca, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashinikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kaufman, Joseph A.
• Application Number:
  US07/694,836
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 222/175, 222/181, 222/186, 222/206, 222/212, 222/556, 43/1, 239/152, 239/153, 239/154, 239/327, 36/1, 36/132, 36/136, 224/148, 224/222
• US Class Current: 222/175
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 27/006 with light-emitting or ornamental devices
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 27/007 with insecticide-dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/008 Lure dispensing devices
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/0031 provided with a pocket, e.g. for keys or a card

Abstract

A scent dispensing system for use by hunter'"'"'s or the like when a flexible bottle of scent, with a small aperture at the bottle'"'"'s bottom is placed in a special holster which attaches to the hunter'"'"'s foot at the ankle whereby liquid scent is forced out a drop at a time as the hunter walks to his or her hunting post. Pressure created by the action of the foot hitting the ground coupled with the pressure created by the expansion of the leg muscle and movement of the hunter'"'"'s ankle as the hunter walks forces the scent to drip out a drop or two at a time. The holster has a pouch for holding the bottle made of a flexible material which is attached by a strap of elastic material. The ends of the strap are attached around the leg of the hunter by a conventional fastener. A wedge of rigid material is positioned in the pouch behind the bottle to assure that the scent will hit the ground and not the hunter or his boots.

Claims

1. A liquid scent dispenser for attachment to a article of footwear at or about the ankle region, comprising:

a flexible container having a nozzle attached at one end for housing the desired liquid scent to be dispensed;

a flexible pouch in which said container is mounted, said flexible pouch having a hole in the lower end in which the nozzle of said container is positioned;

an elastic strap attached to said pouch;

cooperating fastening members attached to each end of the elastic strap to allow attachment of said pouch around the article of footwear at a desired tension; and

said flexible container, elastic strap and fastening members arranged and being so constructed so that when said dispenser is mounted on an article of footwear, movement of said footwear causes a variable tension to be applied to the flexible pouch and thereby to the container mounted whereby pressure created by the movement of said footwear itself coupled with said change of tension on the flexible container by said movement forces the liquid out of the container one drop at a time and absent such movement, liquid is not forced out of the container.

2. A liquid scent dispensing device in accordance with claim 1 wherein the nozzle has an open position which allows fluid to drip from the flexible container and a closed position wherein the liquid scent is retained in the bottle.

3. A liquid scent dispensing device in accordance with claim 1 wherein inside said pouch is a wedge which positions said flexible container and the nozzle so the liquid leaving the nozzle will be spaced from the footwear on which the flexible container is mounted.