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Hook-and-slot mechanism

Patent drawing showing three wooden duck decoys floating on water, connected by thin rigid links pivoted at hook joints, with detailed cross-section diagrams of the slotted wooden bodies and connecting plates below.

DECOY-DUCK.Joseph Coudon · May 24, 1904

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