Decoy Ducks that Quack and Swim 



The ducks are composed of two separable 

 parts which enclose a phonographic con- 

 trivance which emits a natural-sounding 

 quack, or call, at predetermined intervals 



WHEN Amos C. Vaughan of Ana- 

 darko, Oklahoma, goesduckshoot- 

 ing he takes with him a sot of his 

 mechanical decoy's and places them in 

 the water in front of his blind. Before 

 doing so, howe\er, he winds them up. 

 When a flock of wild ducks appears his 

 decoys begin to swim about and quack 

 as if they were alive. The result is that 

 the inventor goes home with a full bag, 

 for no wild duck can resist the mechani- 

 cal wiles of his decoy. 



His duck is provided with a phono- 

 graphic means for automatically giving 

 at predetermined inter\als a call or cr>-. 

 It swims about in the water with the aid 

 of the propeller and an adjustable 

 rudder, either in circles or in any 

 direction the hunter washes. 



The decoy is composed of two parts, 

 bottom and top, which can be opened 

 for cleaning and repairing. A clock- 



work mechanism dri\es the propeller 

 and also the sound-record of the phono- 

 graph. As the mechanism is set in 

 action the stylus, or needle, as well as the 

 propeller is operated. A cylinder or 

 disk is used for the record. A control- 

 ling cam renders the needle inopera- 

 tive at certain intervals, so that the calls 

 or cries are sounded intermittently. 

 Who makes the phonographic record 

 of the quack that leads a duck to its 

 doom? We are baflfled. 



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