Patents by Inventor Ben R. Lee

Ben R. Lee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4836822
    Abstract: A compact hand-held thumb actuated friction-type turkey call is formed of a generally rectangular elongated hollow wooden sound box assembly having a longitudinal slot with a planar striker pivotably mounted to one end block at one end thereof for oscillation into and out of the sound chamber through the longitudinal slot. The hollow sound box assembly includes at least one sounding board oblique to an opposed face of the planar striker and extending inwardly of the sound chamber towards a striker planar surface and having a longitudinal edge contactable by the striker surface during movement of the striker into and out of the longitudinal slot. A spring biases the striker to a position partially projecting from the sound chamber. The sound box assembly may be held in the palm of one hand such that the user's thumb readily depresses the striker against the bias of the spring into the sound chamber to produce a rasping call imitating the sound of a live, wild turkey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Ben Lee Calls
    Inventors: Randy Finley, Ben R. Lee
  • Patent number: 4792471
    Abstract: A camouflage wrapping strip that takes the form of a given length of strip material such as cloth, plastic or the like having mutually engageable fasteners at longitudinally spaced positions over the length of the strip for overlapping attachment across the points of the strip when wrapped about the body of a hunter. Artificial foliage elements are fastened to the strip at longitudinally spaced positions with the foliage elements breaking up the body outline. The artificial foliage elements may be artificial flowers, leaves, weeds, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Inventor: Ben R. Lee
  • Patent number: 4343108
    Abstract: An elongated wooden box type turkey call having laterally opposed upwardly tapered, longitudinally slotted sidewalls which extend upwardly from a bottom wall, whose bottom surface is concave, are separated from each other by block type end pieces. The end pieces sandwich opposite sides of a central sound board sized and configured to the sidewalls and extending upwardly from the bottom wall to form dual sound chambers on opposite sides thereof. The sidewalls and the sound board extend vertically above the end pieces, and the upper edges are convexly arcuate. A wooden actuator top has a laterally double convex bottom surface, with the dual convex bottom surface portions extending longitudinally of the actuator top. The top is screwed at one end alternately through three laterally spaced holes to the box at the end pieces to permit the actuator top to be aligned with or deliberately misaligned with the open top box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Assignee: Lee Calls, Inc.
    Inventor: Ben R. Lee