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Screw-eye anchor cord

Patent drawing showing a floating molded-paper duck decoy with an anchor cord and weight, plus cross-sectional views of its hollow interior weight and molding form, and a side view of the two duck-shaped mold halves.

DECOY-DUCK.John H. Rimpler and Samuel C. Self · February 14, 1905

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