Deformable Cavity Game Call Device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wild game calling devices, such as diaphragm calls, often cause discomfort due to the need to insert a resonant chamber into the user's mouth and require a high level of skill to produce a wide tonal variety, making them difficult for many users to operate effectively.
Innovation Solution
A wild game calling device that does not require a resonant chamber to be inserted into the mouth, featuring a deformable cavity with a reed that modulates pitch based on user-applied force, allowing for easy production of elk calls using non-latex, hypoallergenic materials.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a resonant chamber is inserted into the mouth to produce game calls, then the call can be produced, but user comfort deteriorates and ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the resonant chamber from the mouth-insertion configuration and extracts this uncomfortable element from the system. Instead, the call is produced by directing air across a reed located outside the mouth, eliminating the need for mouth insertion while maintaining the ability to produce game calls.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the reed and air passage system) that mediates between the user's breath and the sound production. Air is directed through a passage and across the reed, which vibrates to produce the call, replacing the direct mouth-chamber contact of traditional designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-resonant-chamber design is used, then the call structure is simple, but adaptability deteriorates because tonal variety requires high skill
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the reed system dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. Users can modify the reed tension and positioning to achieve different tonal variations, allowing a single device structure to produce multiple call types through user adjustment rather than requiring complex pre-configured chambers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables tonal variety by allowing changes in physical parameters of the reed system - specifically tension and positioning - rather than requiring complex structural variations. This parameter-based adjustment provides versatility while maintaining relative simplicity in the overall device structure.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional diaphragm calls are used, then game calls can be produced, but ease of manufacture deteriorates due to latex material requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the material parameter from latex to non-latex, hypoallergenic materials. This substitution maintains the functional requirements of the reed while eliminating the harmful allergic reactions associated with traditional latex diaphragm calls, and the manufacturing process remains relatively straightforward.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device provides a comfortable and easy-to-use solution for hunters of all skill levels, enabling effective imitation of elk calls with a wide tonal variety without the need for mouth insertion, enhancing usability and accessibility.
Implementation Method 1
a cavity that is deformable while air is passed over a reed to make a game call sound; and a tension of the reed may vary responsive to a force applied by a user to the cavity to modulate a pitch in the game call sound
Implementation Method 2
air is passed over a reed to make a game call sound
Data Source
AI summary
Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture related to wild game calling are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using a game calling device. In a particular implementation, a game calling device may closely imitate the call of an elk while air is passed over a reed to make a game call sound.