Patents by Inventor Justin P. Chatelain

Justin P. Chatelain 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: 9700037
    Abstract: A duck decoy device with a hollow duck decoy body joined to a base having a housing thereon, and an insert having selectively separable and pivotable front and rear platforms and selectively separable left and right halves. A spool for holding a line is removably disposed between stilted arches on the left and right halves. A disc, on the spool proximal the right half stilted arch, has notched teeth along an entire outer perimeter thereof. A hook is forwardly disposed on a parallelepiped central shaft on the rear platform and engages one of the notched teeth to arrest spool spinning. A solid metal weight within the entire shell is selectively held and alternately released from the insert, and is fastened to the insert via the line. The insert and the separability of the right and left halves and the front and rear platforms permit servicing and replacement of various parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Justin P. Chatelain, Kirk Juneau
  • Patent number: 9700036
    Abstract: A duck decoy device with a hollow body joined to a base with an interior u-shaped housing. An insert has a platform capable of partial disassembly. The platform has a left half and a right half that are selectively divisible. The platform also has a front platform and a rear platform that are pivotal and divisible. A collar selectively joins the left half to the right half. A spool with line is removably contained between a pair of stilted arches, one of each stilted arch disposed on each of the left half and the right half. The stilted arches are selectively disposed within the u-shaped housing. A weight with surrounding shell is selectively held and alternately released from the insert, and is fastened to the insert via the line. The insert provides for the decoy to be serviceable and to have various parts repaired and replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Justin P. Chatelain, Kirk Juneau
  • Patent number: 9386765
    Abstract: A reeled string duck decoy that provides an internally removable string reel via a gasketed removable panel, a decoy sealed against water invasion, a decoy that allows floatation height adjustment via an aperture with plug, allowing addition and subtraction of a material, a decoy that provides selective and varied attachment of a weight to the keel, and a decoy that provides a choice of either the head end facing winds and currents or having the tail end facing winds and currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventors: Justin P. Chatelain, Kirk Juneau