Vibratory Reed Sounder Patents (Class 446/207)
  • Patent number: 11659832
    Abstract: A wild game call includes a bugle tube and a damper. The bugle tube includes a first end with a first aperture, a second end with a second aperture, and a wall extending from the first end to the second end. The wall defines an interior volume, and the first aperture and the second aperture provide access to the interior volume such that a flow path is defined through the bugle tube from the first end, through the second end, and out the second end. The bugle tube includes a metal and is configured to generate sound waves by vibrating responsive to air flowing along the flow path. The damper surrounds the outer surface of the wall of the bugle tube between the first end and the second end and may reduce unwanted ringing while improving the sound of the bugle call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MEATEATER HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Abram Summerfield
  • Patent number: 11076592
    Abstract: A wild game call includes a bugle tube and a damper. The bugle tube includes a first end with a first aperture, a second end with a second aperture, and a wall extending from the first end to the second end. The wall defines an interior volume, and the first aperture and the second aperture provide access to the interior volume such that a flow path is defined through the bugle tube from the first end, through the second end, and out the second end. The bugle tube includes a metal and is configured to generate sound waves by vibrating responsive to air flowing along the flow path. The damper surrounds the outer surface of the wall of the bugle tube between the first end and the second end and may reduce unwanted ringing while improving the sound of the bugle call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MEATEATER HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Abram Summerfield
  • Patent number: 9848596
    Abstract: A scent-free game call configured to emulate a sound of a predetermined species of animal, the call comprising a mouthpiece section, with a digitally reproduced image displayed thereon, in a manner such that the digitally reproduced image specifically relates to said predetermined species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Double B Custom Calls, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher R. Betts, Zachary Martin Hornberg
  • Patent number: 9510588
    Abstract: An air operated game call includes a tone board, a reed and a tubular housing having an interior surface. The interior surface defines an air channel sized for housing the tone board and the reed, and includes at least one portion with transversely extending corrugations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: John C. Werth
  • Patent number: 8961261
    Abstract: A game call apparatus for imitating sounds of game upon receiving air exhaled by a user includes a mouthpiece, a reed assembly, and a secondary air member. Air is capable of entering and exiting the game call through the secondary air member, and the game call is capable of producing multiple types of game vocalizations, such as those of male deer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Flambeau, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Nolz, Tad Brown
  • Patent number: 8870620
    Abstract: A game call having a plurality of reeds is provided for simulating the sound of a game animal. The call provides sounding board with first and second opposing faces and at least one reed associated with the first face and the second face. A user may selectively operate one or more of the reeds in order to simulate the call or sound of one or more animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Levi McLeod
  • Patent number: 8727828
    Abstract: A wild game call may include a resonance piece. The resonance piece may include a body, pipes, and a plug that may attach to a mouth piece. Also a wild game call may include a mouth piece attached to the body. Additionally, the mouth piece may include a reed and a neck. Alternatively, a wild game call may include pipes of variable lengths attached to a splitter, which combines two pipe openings into one pipe opening. Also, a front pipe may be attached to the one pipe opening of the splitter. Additionally, a wild game call may include a mouthpiece attached to the front pipe comprising openings for exhaling, a reed; and fasteners to attach the reed to the mouth piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Duel Game Calls, LLC
    Inventor: Troy T. Pribbanow
  • Patent number: 8672725
    Abstract: A scent-free game call mouthpiece section, with a photographic camouflaged or photographic decorative image displayed thereon, in a manner such that paint fragments and VOCs from the camouflaged or decorative image are restrained from contacting the mouth of the game call user, or otherwise being released into the atmosphere around the game call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: Christopher R. Betts
  • Publication number: 20140051323
    Abstract: A game calling device including a mouthpiece having inlet and outlet portions and holes between the inlet and outlet portions, whereby sounds having varied pitch and intensity can be generated. The game calling device also includes an inner tubular member that at least partially houses a reed and configured to be selectively positioned on the axial direction of the reed so that the emitted sound can be varied based at least on the position of the inner tubular member along the reed and thereby allowing the game calling device to be used hands-free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: David Eugene Oathout
  • Patent number: 8622782
    Abstract: A combination wildlife call has a first call member with a first body portion having an air inlet and a second portion having an air outlet for generating a first wildlife call when air passes through the first call member. A second call member has a second body portion fixed to the first body portion at an angle thereto. The second body portion has an air inlet and a third portion having an air outlet for generating a second wildlife call when air passes through the second call member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Cherokee Sports, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel B. Fulcher
  • Publication number: 20130288561
    Abstract: A game call apparatus for imitating sounds of game upon receiving air exhaled by a user includes a mouthpiece, a reed assembly, and a secondary air member. Air is capable of entering and exiting the game call through the secondary air member, and the game call is capable of producing multiple types of game vocalizations, such as those of male deer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jason Nolz, Tad Brown
  • Patent number: 8469765
    Abstract: A game call apparatus for imitating sounds of game upon receiving air exhaled by a user includes a mouthpiece, a reed assembly, and a secondary air member. Air is capable of entering and exiting the game call through the secondary air member, and the game call is capable of producing multiple types of game vocalizations, such as those of male deer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Flambeau, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Nolz, Tad Brown
  • Patent number: 8398452
    Abstract: A single reed turkey gobble call includes a barrel through which a user blows air. A reed assembly is positioned in the barrel. The reed assembly includes a tone board and a reed positioned against the tone board. A wedge engages the reed, and the reed is partially clamped between the wedge and the tone board such that a distal end of the reed is free to vibrate against the tone board. A vertex is defined on the tone board at the location where the reed separates from the tone board. The wedge is axially offset from the vertex in the axial direction away from the distal reed end by a wedge offset distance to produce a gobble sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Down-N-Dirty Outdoors, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Coin
  • Publication number: 20130052908
    Abstract: A wild game call may include a resonance piece. The resonance piece may include a body, pipes, and a plug that may attach to a mouth piece. Also a wild game call may include a mouth piece attached to the body. Additionally, the mouth piece may include a reed and a neck. Alternatively, a wild game call may include pipes of variable lengths attached to a splitter, which combines two pipe openings into one pipe opening. Also, a front pipe may be attached to the one pipe opening of the splitter. Additionally, a wild game call may include a mouthpiece attached to the front pipe comprising openings for exhaling, a reed; and fasteners to attach the reed to the mouth piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Troy T. Pribbanow
  • Publication number: 20130045657
    Abstract: A game call having a plurality of reeds is provided for simulating the sound of a game animal. The call provides sounding board with first and second opposing faces and at least one reed associated with the first face and the second face. A user may selectively operate one or more of the reeds in order to simulate the call or sound of one or more animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventor: Levi McLeod
  • Publication number: 20130017755
    Abstract: A call maker typically bores a sound channel from the exhaust port end of the insert through the bell all the way through the insert. A newer innovation was to drill the sound channel to a specific depth in the sound board, but stopping before reaching the tip of the sound board, thus creating back pressure and making the call easier to blow. By drilling the sound channel to just past the seat line, a call maker may then complete the shaping of the sound channel after the forming of the sound board using an end mill to cut a precisely shaped channel with controlled angle, depth, and width to adjust the proper root back pressure and finely tune the call's tone and quality in a replicable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventor: Jonathan Hudson Hooks
  • Patent number: 8342902
    Abstract: A deer call includes a cylindrical mouthpiece in which a reed assembly is mounted for oscillatory movement creating a sound replicating that of a deer and a sound attenuating tube secured to the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece is composed of a rigid tubular member and an elastic skin secured about the tubular member. The rigid tubular member includes a central cut-out section exposing the elastic skin to an interior of the mouthpiece thereby defining the elastic skin resonance control surface, wherein the elastic skin in the area of the elastic skin resonance control surface includes a sound control aperture allowing the user to control air pressure within the mouthpiece and thereby control amplitude of sound generated by the deer call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventor: John Christopher Brown
  • Publication number: 20120295511
    Abstract: A single reed turkey gobble call includes a barrel through which a user blows air. A reed assembly is positioned in the barrel. The reed assembly includes a tone board and a reed positioned against the tone board. A wedge engages the reed, and the reed is partially clamped between the wedge and the tone board such that a distal end of the reed is free to vibrate against the tone board. A vertex is defined on the tone board at the location where the reed separates from the tone board. The wedge is axially offset from the vertex in the axial direction away from the distal reed end by a wedge offset distance to produce a gobble sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Coin
  • Publication number: 20120252311
    Abstract: A game call apparatus for imitating sounds of game upon receiving air exhaled by a user includes a mouthpiece, a reed assembly, and a secondary air member. Air is capable of entering and exiting the game call through the secondary air member, and the game call is capable of producing multiple types of game vocalizations, such as those of male deer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Jason Nolz, Tad Brown
  • Patent number: 8277275
    Abstract: A game call apparatus comprises a mouthpiece including an air inlet opening, an air outlet opening, and a mouthpiece air passageway connecting the air inlet opening and the air outlet opening. The game call apparatus further comprises an outer sound chamber including an air inlet opening, an air exit opening, and an internal surface connecting the air inlet opening of the outer sound chamber and the air exit opening. The game call further comprises an inner sound chamber including an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening disposed within the outer sound chamber. The inner sound chamber air passageway connects the air inlet opening of the inner sound chamber and the air outlet opening of the inner sound chamber, and the inner sound chamber air passageway is in communication with the mouthpiece air passageway to permit air passage between the air inlet opening of the mouthpiece and the air exit opening of the outer sound chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Flambeau, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark A. Drury
  • Publication number: 20120238180
    Abstract: A combination wildlife call has a first call member with a first body portion having an air inlet and a second portion having an air outlet for generating a first wildlife call when air passes through the first call member. A second call member has a second body portion fixed to the first body portion at an angle thereto. The second body portion has an air inlet and a third portion having an air outlet for generating a second wildlife call when air passes through the second call member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Cherokee Sports,LLC
    Inventor: Daniel B. Fulcher
  • Publication number: 20120088432
    Abstract: A deer call includes a cylindrical mouthpiece in which a reed assembly is mounted for oscillatory movement creating a sound replicating that of a deer and a sound attenuating tube secured to the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece is composed of a rigid tubular member and an elastic skin secured about the tubular member. The rigid tubular member includes a central cut-out section exposing the elastic skin to an interior of the mouthpiece thereby defining the elastic skin resonance control surface, wherein the elastic skin in the area of the elastic skin resonance control surface includes a sound control aperture allowing the user to control air pressure within the mouthpiece and thereby control amplitude of sound generated by the deer call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventor: John Christopher Brown
  • Publication number: 20120028536
    Abstract: A game call device that helps position a user's mouth over a reed call and select the call tone desired. An elastomeric cap with a reed aperture fits snugly over a reed assembly. The cap helps the user find the right position for the mouth and lips. The rubber cap helps the user to press down on the reed and reed assembly to change the pressure on the reed and the space created by the cap's cavity. Tone or pitch holes in the cap allow the user to close the holes with the user's fingers or mouth and further adjust the tone and pitch of the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventor: Rockie L. Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 8016638
    Abstract: A mouth-operated game call comprising at least one sound-making diaphragm, a frame in which an edge portion of the diaphragm is received, and a housing in which the frame is received, wherein the housing is composed at least partially of a cushion or foam material in order to provide improved sealing against the roof of the mouth or denture plate and to relieve discomfort on the tongue by a tab of the call. A member is positioned between the frame and the housing and is shaped to effect a curvature of an outer surface of the housing for sealingly conforming to a contour of a user's palate or upper denture plate. The frame is folded to comprise a pair of upper and lower frame portions between which the diaphragm is received and wherein a tab on the lower frame portion is folded over onto the upper frame portion so that the tab is not in a position to irritate the user's tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Inventors: R. Christian Kirby, Richard C. Kirby
  • Patent number: 8016637
    Abstract: A wild game call may include a resonance piece. The resonance piece may include a body, pipes, and a plug that may attach to a mouth piece. Also a wild game call may include a mouth piece attached to the body. Additionally, the mouth piece may include a reed and a neck. Alternatively, a wild game call may include pipes of variable lengths attached to a splitter, which combines two pipe openings into one pipe opening. Also, a front pipe may be attached to the one pipe opening of the splitter. Additionally, a wild game call may include a mouthpiece attached to the front pipe comprising openings for exhaling, a reed; and fasteners to attach the reed to the mouth piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: WJ Enterprises, Inc., Exc. Lic.
    Inventor: Troy T. Pribbanow
  • Patent number: 7918709
    Abstract: A combined game call apparatus includes a unitary game call body in which a first game call and a second game call are formed in an over-and-under manner relative to each other. The first game call has a first inlet and a first air passageway associated with the first inlet. The second game call having a second inlet and a second air passageway associated with the second air inlet. The first game call may comprise a whistle-type game call the second air passageway may be generally cylindrical in cross section and may have a truncating, planar side wall proximate the first air passageway such that the truncating, planar side wall allows the first and second game calls to be closely positioned relative to each other and reduces the overall top-to-bottom profile of the unitary call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Primos, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilbur R. Primos, David R. Weldon
  • Publication number: 20100279581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flavored diaphragm-type animal call useful for mimicking the call of a wild animal. The call has a sound-producing unit with a vibratable membrane made of a synthetic material and a flavored unit that releases a flavored taste when the call is held in the mouth of the user. The flavored unit is an adhesive coated fabric tape which is substantially flat and attachable to the sound-producing unit. The adhesive coated fabric tape can be provided in a variety of flavorings. Additionally, the flavored unit is sculptable, i.e., it can be trimmed by the user to give the call a desired overall size and shape. Also disclosed are methods for flavoring the adhesive coated fabric tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: Robert H. Borhofen
  • Patent number: 7762864
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of making noise comprising a noise maker comprising a proximal cylinder portion 20 and a distal cylinder portion 60, a large internal member terminating in at least one finger 38; at least two reeds 40 secured in a manner so that it is positioned adjacent the respective finger 38, but not in contact with the respective finger 38, to create a respective air gap 70 between the finger 38 and the reed 40; whereby at least two air gaps 70 exist for the creation of noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: Dale Moelker
  • Patent number: 7727044
    Abstract: An animal call includes a mouthpiece, a barrel, and a reed. The mouthpiece defines an air channel therein and has a reed bed proximate the air channel. The barrel is coupled to the mouthpiece and has an internal chamber that is fluidically coupled to the air channel of the mouthpiece. A surface comprising the air channel varies in order to maintain a substantially constant cross-sectional area magnitude along a length of the channel. The reed is disposed adjacent the air channel and proximate the reed bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Inventor: Leslie W. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20100112893
    Abstract: A game call apparatus comprises a mouthpiece including an air inlet opening, an air outlet opening, and a mouthpiece air passageway connecting the air inlet opening and the air outlet opening. The game call apparatus further comprises an outer sound chamber including an air inlet opening, an air exit opening, and an internal surface connecting the air inlet opening of the outer sound chamber and the air exit opening. The game call further comprises an inner sound chamber including an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening disposed within the outer sound chamber. The inner sound chamber air passageway connects the air inlet opening of the inner sound chamber and the air outlet opening of the inner sound chamber, and the inner sound chamber air passageway is in communication with the mouthpiece air passageway to permit air passage between the air inlet opening of the mouthpiece and the air exit opening of the outer sound chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: FLAMBEAU, INC.
    Inventor: Mark A. Drury
  • Patent number: 7658660
    Abstract: A game call apparatus is provided which has a mouthpiece including an air inlet, a reed positioned in the mouthpiece and vibrating when air is blown into the mouthpiece, and inner and outer tubular sound chambers mounted on an air outlet end of the mouthpiece. The reed is mounted on an air inlet end of the inner tubular sound chamber, and an air outlet end of the inner tubular sound chamber extends into the outer tubular sound chamber. The outer tubular chamber has an air exit end which tapers radially inwardly toward an air exit. The air exit end includes the air exit which is smaller than an air outlet of the inner tubular chamber. The taper and small exit opening of the outer tubular chamber provides a back pressure to air blown into the mouthpiece which produces a realistic game call sound as the reed vibrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Flambeau, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark A. Drury
  • Patent number: 7642438
    Abstract: A novelty noisemaker assembly and its associated method of assembly. The noisemaker assembly has a bellows for manually producing a flow of air. Air from the bellows passes through a sound generator that produces sound energy as the air passes. The sound energy from the sound generator passes into a pitch control chamber. A plurality of slots are formed in the sound generator. A secondary object is coupled to the end of the pitch control chamber. The secondary object obstructs the pitch control chamber. Consequently, the slots in the side of the pitch control chamber provide the only exit port for the flow of air created by the bellows and the sound energy created by the sound generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Inventor: Wayne Cohen
  • Patent number: 7637795
    Abstract: A deer call assembly that mimics sounds ranging from the high pitched sounds of fawns and does to the low-pitched grunts of bucks. The pitch is infinitely adjustable over a range with a slide actuator that manipulates a band restraint that captures a reed to a longitudinally grooved tone board. An arcuate, grooved collar depends to capture the O'ring. The reed is rigidly secured to the tone board at one end with a peg. A preferred reed exhibits peripheral edges that taper outward as the reed extends to a wide billed end where the edges project beyond the longitudinal sides of the tone board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Inventor: Michael J. Dukart
  • Patent number: 7635287
    Abstract: An improved game call with a game call reed wherein said reed has a restraining end for attachment to a call and a unrestrained end with a non-linear edge for providing improved moisture dissipation, and producing calls more closely matching that of natural animal calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Inventor: James C. May
  • Publication number: 20090258566
    Abstract: An improved game call for attracting waterfowl, other birds and animals, the preferred embodiment particularly adapted for use in calling ducks. In the preferred embodiment, a mouthpiece is provided with a sounding insert and a receiving collar. By providing a separate sounding insert and receiving collar, materials of varying compositions and densities may be used to construct the game call. Varying materials permit a wider range of tonal qualities and aesthetics. A separate sounding insert similarly permits the mouthpiece to be constructed of materials which may not provide optimal sounding qualities. The game call permits a wide variety of materials, including metal and ornamental woods to be combined for optimal tonal and aesthetic qualities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventor: James C. May
  • Publication number: 20090191786
    Abstract: A wild game call may include a resonance piece. The resonance piece may include a body, pipes, and a plug that may attach to a mouth piece. Also a wild game call may include a mouth piece attached to the body. Additionally, the mouth piece may include a reed and a neck. Alternatively, a wild game call may include pipes of variable lengths attached to a splitter, which combines two pipe openings into one pipe opening. Also, a front pipe may be attached to the one pipe opening of the splitter. Additionally, a wild game call may include a mouthpiece attached to the front pipe comprising openings for exhaling, a reed; and fasteners to attach the reed to the mouth piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventor: Troy T. Pribbanow
  • Publication number: 20090023357
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of making noise comprising a noise maker comprising a proximal cylinder portion 20 and a distal cylinder portion 60, a large internal member terminating in at least one finger 38; at least two reeds 40 secured in a manner so that it is positioned adjacent the respective finger 38, but not in contact with the respective finger 38, to create a respective air gap 70 between the finger 38 and the reed 40; whereby at least two air gaps 70 exist for the creation of noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventor: Dale Moelker
  • Publication number: 20090017717
    Abstract: A deer call with a mouthpiece having an air flow channel centrally extending lengthwise with an attached reed overlying the air flow channel, the mouthpiece having a number of mouth insertion depth indicators on the mouthpiece, the deer call void of any mechanical mechanism to vary the length of the reed when air is passed thereover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventor: John Marini
  • Patent number: 7473155
    Abstract: A hand-held object holder includes an aesthetic component having an upper portion secured to a lower portion by a spring, such that the upper portion can wobble back and forth relative to the lower portion. A sound-generating component is secured to the aesthetic component, so that as the upper portion wobbles back and forth, a sound is generated. Finally, at the lower end of the aesthetic component, there is a coupling member for securing an object, such as a candy item, to the aesthetic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: K & A Design, LLC
    Inventors: Kalvin Klundt, Robert C. Auerbach
  • Patent number: 7465213
    Abstract: A wild game call has a single inlet passage into which a user blows to generate sounds that simulate the natural sounds produced by the particular animal being called or attracted. The call includes a splitter that splits the single air inlet passage into a plurality of outlet passages. The sound either is generated in the single air passage or passes into the single air passage from the user and is directed into the plurality of outlet passages to produce the final output sound from the call. The plurality of outlet passages can be configured to produce subtle differences in the sound passing through a passage to provide a combination of sounds more closely simulating the natural animal sound than can be produced in only a single outlet passage. Various sound chamber can be added to the outlet passages to modify the sound emanating from that passage in a desired manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Inventor: Troy T. Pribbanow
  • Publication number: 20080274666
    Abstract: A hands free game call holder for holding a game call is disclosed having an attachment member for securing the game call holder to a hand, an arm, or a wrist of a user. The game call holder includes a call securing member attached to the attachment member and adapted to removably receive the game call. A call plug is provided that militates against a flow of air through at least one aperture formed in the game call, wherein the game call can be operated while keeping the hands of the user free for other tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventor: Brad Ray Weider
  • Publication number: 20080248711
    Abstract: The present invention is direct toward a yelp saver constructed from spring wire and having two distinct sections or portions. The two portions have rounded sections that allow the user to place the yelp saver into the game call without damaging the reeds or poking holes in the reeds and the two sections are separated by a spring action in the yelp saver that allows the reeds to be separated for drying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Dwight Earl Sanderson
  • Publication number: 20070249257
    Abstract: This invention is a game call having a barrel, an insert, a reed and a heating element disposed within or on either the barrel or the insert of the call to heat a portion of the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventor: Robert E. Marsh
  • Publication number: 20070243790
    Abstract: An improved game call with a game call reed wherein said reed has a restraining end for attachment to a call and a unrestrained end with a non-linear edge for providing improved moisture dissipation, and producing calls more closely matching that of natural animal calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventor: James C. May
  • Patent number: 7234987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a game calling holder which when combined with a game calling unit and secured to a hunter's body at a predetermined aiming mount position will allow the hunter to simultaneously call the game while aiming the weapon. The game calling holder may appropriately include an elastic sleeve sized to elastically conform to the game calling unit configuration and a badge pin which retains the elastic sleeve and game calling unit in longitudinal alignment with the badge pin alignment when mounted onto a hunter's garment at a predetermined aiming mount position. The game calling holder when mounted appropriately to an aiming arm of a bow and arrow hunter and a triggering wrist of a firearm hunter accordingly allows the hunter to simultaneously aim and call the hunted prey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventor: Paul A. Brazil
  • Patent number: 7070473
    Abstract: An apparatus for calling deer, and methods of its use; the apparatus having an adjustable sliding element moved longitudinally by the user to adjust the dimension x of a vibrating reed to vary the sound generated by the deer call. The device includes a barrel assembly with a vibrating reed mounted therein on a reed holder. A metal slider mounted for longitudinal movement within the barrel assembly has a tab extending outwardly therefrom so as to be adjustable without disassembly of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Inventor: Angelo Cassette
  • Patent number: 7011563
    Abstract: A game call includes a mouthpiece having a plurality of vibrating reed areas, and/or a mouthpiece that is adjustable relative to the housing, to produce unusual and complex sounds that are very much like wild game sounds. The plurality of reed areas may be two areas of a single tubular reed vibrating on different areas of the mouthpiece, and, preferably, vibrating on opposite sides of the mouthpiece. The opposite sides of the mouthpiece may include surface contours, including indentures, curvatures, or orifices, which cooperate with the vibrating reed and/or subsequently affect the air waves created by the vibrating reed. The mouthpiece cooperates with a housing, so that air from the user's mouth travels across the reed areas, creating vibrations in the air, which air vibrations travel into the housing resonating chamber, and out to the surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Inventors: Daniel D. Ady, Don Laubach
  • Patent number: 7011564
    Abstract: A game call system includes a mouthpiece that produces sound by a plurality of reed or membrane portions vibrating against or near a plurality of sound-producing surfaces. Preferably, the game call has two recessed or curved or contoured surfaces on two halves of a generally circular end of the mouthpiece, with an aperture between the two curved/contoured surfaces. These surfaces may be identical, substantially identical, or different, and the reeds or reed portions also may be identical, substantially identical, and or different. Air passes over the reed(s) to create vibrations in the reed(s), and the resulting sound waves pass through the center aperture of the mouthpiece into the resonating chamber of the call, and through any resonating tube or other member that may optionally be present. The multiple sound-producing regions allow for more complex and/or realistic sounds than conventional single sound-producing region and single reed calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Inventors: Daniel D. Ady, Don Laubach
  • Patent number: 6953378
    Abstract: A device for housing the frame containing the reed(s) in a caller for producing sound to attract wild game, said housing device comprising essentially planar elastomeric material defining an essentially planar cavity adapted to relatively snugly capture the frame without interfering with the sound producing characteristics of the reed(s). Said housing may include a resiliently flexible flap facilitating adapted to closely contact the user's palate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Inventor: John F. Finley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6926578
    Abstract: A double inlet game call apparatus includes at least two reed assemblies having two reeds, two sounding boards, and two air passageways. The reed assemblies may be physically separate and/or separate in terms of function, and are capable of simultaneously or alternatively producing sounds that simulate the sounds of wild animals. In particular, the multiple reed assemblies will allow the user of the game call to simulate a herd of animals. In one embodiment, the reed assembly section may be utilized without a sound chamber. In another embodiment, the reed assembly section is coupled to a single sound chamber. In yet another embodiment, the reed assembly section is coupled to a double sound chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Primos, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Casias, Wilbur R. Primos