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Gear and lever linkage

Patent drawing of a wooden duck decoy split at the neck, showing an internal pendulum weight, linkage rod, and gear mechanism beneath the body that turns the head as the decoy rocks on water.

DECOY DEVICEDomenic Bonetti · December 26, 1939

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