Versatile wildlife game call

• US 6,231,418 B1
• Filed: 09/03/1999
• Issued: 05/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bowers, Jack, Bruce J. Hancock
• Original Assignee: Bowers, Jack, Bruce J. Hancock
• Inventors: Bowers, Jack, Hancock, Bruce J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Muir, D. Neal
• Application Number:
  US09/390,288
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 446/202-206, 446/207, 446/208, 446/213, 446/397
• US Class Current: 446/207
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/004 Game callers

Abstract

A trapezoidal-shaped game call device with a tapered polypropylene body design and aperture to expel condensate and saliva. The top and bottom members of the body of the device are hinged together by a living hinge on one side and forms a friction grunter that can be rubbed against a hard surface to produce a rutting call on the other side. Rubber bands with a high percentage of rubber by weight are used as elastic reeds to insure consistency, and a silicon O-ring is also used to attach together the unhinged side of the calling device to stabilize the frictional grunter. A lanyard can also be provided on the device for convenient transport.

Claims

1. A wildlife game calling device comprising:

a substantially trapezoidal-shaped body having a first end and a second end, a first side and a second side, said body including a first member having a first central aperture and a second member having a second central aperture, each said end having a width, wherein the width of the first end is less than the width of the second end, said first member being hingedly attached to the second member along said first side;

one of said first and second members including a series of rounded projections extending along the second side to form a friction grunter;

a first elastic band passing between and encircling said first member and said second member adjacent said first end;

a second elastic band encircling one of said first and second members adjacent said second end;

a third elastic band extending along said second side and joining said first and second members together to form a sounding chamber therebetween.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said body further includes a first track encircling said first and second members adjacent said first end for receiving said first elastic band, and a second track encircling said first and second members adjacent said second end for receiving said second elastic band.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said one of said first and second members includes an opening along the second side for receiving a lanyard.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first elastic band and said second elastic band each contain 70-85% by weight rubber.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein said third elastic band is a silicon O-ring.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein said body is made of polypropylene.