Patent ID: 6339893
Filing Date: 2002-01-22
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
Apparatus for addition of movable appendages to a waterfowl decoy adapted to float on the surface of a body of water, having a body with a top, two opposing sides, a tail, and a hollow interior, the body including an opening in the top thereof for access to the hollow interior thereof, and the body also including a plurality of slots disposed in paired opposing relationship in the sides of the body and positioned such that each pair of slots defines a plane generally parallel to the surface of the water when the decoy is floating on the surface of a body of water, the apparatus comprisinga drive means having a rotatable output shaft, said drive means disposed in said hollow interior of said body and connected to said body with said output shaft disposed in generally perpendicular relation to said plane defined by each pair of said slots; a generally planar disk having a center and an outer edge, said disk connected to said output shaft of said drive means with said disk generally perpendicular to said output shaft and generally parallel to said plane defined by each pair of said slots; and a plurality of appendage assemblies, each including an elongate support member with an inner end and an outer end, an appendage connected to said support member near said outer end thereof, said appendage assemblies disposed in paired opposing relationship with one of each pair of said appendage assemblies on a respective side of said body of said decoy with said support members extending through a respective one of said slots and mutually pivotally connected at said inner ends of each pair thereof to said disk, with said appendages disposed exterior to said body such that said support members lie generally parallel to the surface of the water when the decoy is floating on the surface of a body of water, whereby activation of said motor induces oscillatory movement of said appendage assemblies generally parallel to said plane defined by said slots.