US 12,137,680 B2
Method of carrying a plurality of duck decoys
Michael T. Wood, Eads, TN (US); and James L. Spence, Dyersburg, TN (US)
Assigned to Icon Outdoors, LLC, Olive Branch, MS (US)
Filed by ICON OUTDOORS, LLC, Olive Branch, MS (US)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/517,756.
Application 18/517,756 is a division of application No. 17/228,933, filed on Apr. 13, 2021, granted, now 11,825,833.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/106,605, filed on Oct. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0081321 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01M 31/06 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 31/06 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of carrying a plurality of duck decoys wherein each duck decoy includes a decoy body held on a support, the method comprising:
displacing each decoy body on each support from a home position to a carry position;
stacking bases of the supports together while orienting the decoy bodies in different directions; and
holding the stacked bases in one hand wherein the displacing includes (a) releasing a first retainer on each duck decoy from engagement with the support to displace the decoy body of each duck decoy from the home position, (b) pivoting the decoy body of each duck decoy following releasing the first retainer, and (c) engaging a second retainer of each duck decoy with the support when the decoy body of each duck decoy is pivoted into the carry position whereby the duck decoy body of each duck decoy is held in the carry position and wherein the stacking includes aligning a channel in the support of a second duck decoy with a stanchion of the support of a first duck decoy and positioning the base of the second duck decoy against the bast of the first duck decoy with the stanchion of the support of the first duck decoy received in the channel of the second duck decoy.