Turkey Patents and Presidential Pardons

From Design patent D297,249, titled: Turkey hunter's safety placard

Earlier today President Barack Obama carried out a traditional Presidential duty of pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey. This year there were two pardons handed out by the President, one to the National Thanksgiving Turkey Apple, and one to his understudy Cider. Apple and Cider will live out their days at Mount Vernon, home of our nation’s first President, George Washington. I can assure you that in the Quinn household there will be no pardoning of turkeys, and we will consume copious amounts of the creature as we celebrate, give thanks and watch football.

The pardoning of the Presidential turkey caught my imagination as I was trying to figure out what holiday patents to profile for this Thanksgiving, something I always try and do whenever possible. So what better thing to focus on than on turkey patents, and there are many of them. I easily found multiple dozens of turkey callers and all kinds of turkey transportation devices used by hunters to carry their prey home, but these were the ones that really caught my attention for one reason or another.

In addition to the ones below, for other turkey and Thanksgiving themed patents please see these other articles:

For more festive patents check out our Holiday Patents page too!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Turkey decoration

Remote controlled turkey decoy

Turkey trophy mounting kit

Process for preparing turkey rib cuts

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