The Duck & Game Call Patent Archive

Patents that talked to the birds

Inflatable decoy

Patent drawing sheets showing a canvas duck decoy in side, top, and bottom views with internal seams, an air valve nozzle, and a sectional diagram revealing an internal brace and liquid-filled cavity.DECOY.Seth Curlin · June 17, 1890Patent drawing of a fabric duck decoy shown in side profile with labeled head, body, and inflating tube, plus cutaway sectional views revealing an internal vertical stay and reinforcement patches stitched inside the top and bottom of the body.INFLATABLE DECOY.Seth Curlin · January 16, 1894Patent drawing of a duck decoy shown in three views: a full perspective of the inflated cloth-bodied duck with wooden head, an internal cross-section revealing the air bag, filling tube, valve, and weighted chain, and a bottom plan view showing the valve opening.DECOY-DUCKFrancis McDonald Oliver and Charles B. Westcott · November 27, 1906Patent drawing of a canvas duck decoy shown in cross-section with an inflatable rubber bag inside the body, a removable flanged metal bottom plate labeled N and K, a puckering string H cinching the fabric edge around the bottom, and anchoring rings T at the front and rear.DECOY.Francis McDonald Oliver and Charles B. Westcott · September 14, 1909Patent drawing showing a side view of a floating rubber duck decoy with labeled parts including the inflating tube, elastic strap, and ballast weight, plus a plan view from below showing the same components and an anchor line with a trapezoidal weight.DECOYMorgan R. Day · January 25, 1944Patent drawing sheet showing an inflated goose-shaped decoy standing on two wire-and-plastic legs, alongside detail views of the air plug, leg-mounting track, wire tongue, and alternative single-leg and water-anchor supports.DECOYAdam Rexius · December 17, 1957