Granted Patent B1

US 7,553,210 · App. 10/907,336 · Granted Jun 30, 2009

Abstract

Claims (25)

1. An apparatus for calling game comprising:

a mouthpiece body comprising an air intake port and an opposing air exhaust port with a central region disposed along an internal airflow axis between said air intake port and said air exhaust port;

said air intake port being sized and configured to cooperate with a human mouth and to have air blown into said air intake port by exhalation from said human mouth;

said air intake port and said air exhaust port being configured in an axial relationship so that air blown into said air intake port flows along said internal airflow axis to said air exhaust port;

said central region further comprising a diaphragm disposed centrally along said internal airflow axis and configured to vibrate and generate sound when air is blown into said air intake port;

said central region further comprising a sound chamber dome disposed on a first side of said diaphragm; and

said mouthpiece body further comprising a pliable segment oriented so that a manual exterior manipulation of said pliable segment, in a direction generally perpendicular to said airflow axis and on an opposite side of said diaphragm with respect to said sound chamber dome, causes said pliable segment to engage said diaphragm and move said diaphragm toward said sound chamber dome.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said sound chamber dome has a trough configured to allow portions of said diaphragm to vibrate despite contact between portions of said diaphragm and non-trough portions of said sound chamber dome.

3. An apparatus of claim 1 wherein said diaphragm is detachable from said mouthpiece body.

4. An apparatus of claim 3 wherein said sound chamber dome is detachable with respect to said mouthpiece-body.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said diaphragm and said sound chamber dome are coupled together as a single unit and are configured to be detachably coupled as a single unit into diaphragm retaining structure disposed in said mouthpiece body.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 further comprising a plunger configured to depress said pliable segment when said plunger is manipulated by a human digit.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said plunger is detachably coupled to said mouthpiece body and said pliable segment is detachable with respect to said mouthpiece body.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said plunger pivots about a plunger axis which is generally perpendicular to said internal airflow axis.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a plunger configured to depress said pliable segment when said plunger is manipulated by a human digit.

10. A game call comprising:

a bottom section;

a top section configured to mate with said bottom section, said top and bottom sections forming a cavity disposed along an internal airflow axis;

a pair of “O” rings each of which encircles a portion of said bottom section and said top section so that said bottom section is held to said top section;

a pliable detachable pad disposed in said top section;

a readily detachable plunger pivotally coupled to one of said top section and said bottom section, so that a manipulation of said readily detachable plunger results in portions of said pliable detachable pad being forced into the cavity in a direction generally perpendicular to said airflow axis;

a “U”-shaped diaphragm insert coupled to a non-uniform dome comprising a central located void; and

a slot formed in at least one of said top section and said bottom section, said slot configured to receive and retain said diaphragm insert.

11. The game call of claim 10 wherein the void is at a free edge of the dome and does not extend through the dome from a bottom surface of the dome to a top surface of the dome.

12. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said trough does not extend entirely through said sound chamber dome.

Assignments (23)