| 摘要 |
A manually manipulated expander spaces the opposite walls of the body of a flexible hollow animal decoy, such as a turkey decoy. The decoy has outwardly convex flexible walls, one of which is collapsed inwardly by inverting it against the other, thus flattening the decoy for transport. The expander is associated with a vertical support pillar or shaft, which carries the decoy on the ground. Bracing portions of the expander extend for example in opposite directions, to contact and space the walls. In an integral expander embodiment the walls are braced open by two opposite arms or by the peripheral edges of a thin two dimensional shape complementing a cross section of the hollow opening between the walls. The expander is then rotated 90° to place either the wider or thinner expander cross section between the decoy walls. The expander also can have a mechanism with relatively movable parts such as pivotable arms that extend or retract by a manual manipulation, for example by operating a slide hub on the support pillar similar to that of an umbrella. The expander can be retrofit into a decoy body and separately removable or attached. The decoy is unobtrusively deployed by a hunter, using the expander to open and set up the flattened decoy in a quick movement.
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