Patent ID: 8256155

Claim:
A simulated fowl swimming apparatus, comprising: a pump conduit having a lower conduit end and an upper conduit end; a pump disposed in fluid communication with said pump conduit between said lower conduit end and said upper conduit end; a stake extending downwardly from said lower conduit end of said pump conduit: a decoy motion assembly including: at least one water distribution conduit disposed in fluid communication with and rotatable with respect to said upper conduit end of said pump conduit, said water distribution conduit perpendicular to said pump conduit; at least one water discharge conduit disposed in fluid communication with said water distribution conduit, said water discharge conduit perpendicular to said water distribution conduit; at least one discharge opening in said water discharge conduit; and at least one water fowl decoy carried by said at least one water discharge conduit; and wherein said water discharge conduit is driven in a circular motion via jet propulsion and said water distribution conduit rotates about said pump conduit and constrains said at least one water fowl decoy in a circular path having a diameter corresponding to a radius of said water distribution conduit with said pump conduit centered in said circular path as water is pumped through said pump conduit and said decoy motion assembly and is discharged from said at least one discharge opening, respectively, responsive to operation of said pump.