Patent ID: 7637795
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
1. An animal call comprising: a) a hollow housing having a through bore extending between inlet and outlet ends and an intermediate sound chamber and including an aperture extending through a sidewall of said housing in communication with said sound chamber and wherein air directed from said inlet end to said outlet end produces sound; b) an elongated tone board mounted in said sound chamber and having a coextensive longitudinal flat surface and a longitudinal channel recessed into said flat surface, wherein a forward portion of said flat surface declines at an acute angle relative to an aft portion that extends coaxial to said housing, and wherein the forward portion mounts adjacent said inlet end; c) a flat elongated reed wherein laterally opposed peripheral edges define a first portion having parallel peripheral edges and a second flared portion having peripheral edges that flare outward at an acute angle as they extend from the first portion, and wherein the flared edges of the second portion extend to span a width in excess of 125% of the forward portion of the tone board; d) an elastomer O'ring mounted in circumscribing contact with said reed and said tone board to restrain said reed to said tone board; e) a plug mounted in the housing bore to secure the aft portion said tone board and the first portion of said reed to the housing outlet end with said reed mounted to overly said channel to define an air passage along said channel beneath said reed and wherein the flared second portion of said reed overlies and is displaced from the forward declining portion of said tone board adjacent the air inlet end of the housing such that air admitted from the inlet end vibrates said reed and directs air through said sound chamber along said channel; and f) an actuator having a cover piece mounted to the sidewall of said housing to cover said aperture, wherein said cover piece has a projecting collar piece that contains a groove, wherein an outer surface portion of said O'ring rests in said groove, and wherein said cover piece is mounted to slide to and fro along the housing at said aperture to contain air admitted to said housing within the sound chamber and is operable to reciprocally manipulate said O'ring along said reed to vary the sound emitted by said call.