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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
May. 11, 2016
Iron Mountain Products, Llc, Lecompton, KS (US);
Dennis Steinman, Lecompton, KS (US);
Dennis A. Falls, Olathe, KS (US);
Alexander J. Waller, Olathe, KS (US);
Iron Mountain Products, LLC, Lecompton, KS (US);
Abstract
An animal tracking device comprising a housing, a controller, a battery, an antenna, a sleeve, an elastic ring, and a prong. The housing encloses the controller and the battery and includes a flexible clip having a flexible neck, a latch on an inner side of the flexible clip, an elastic ring groove on an outer side of the flexible clip for receiving the elastic ring, and a latch release member extending from the outer side between the flexible neck and the elastic ring groove. The elastic ring retains the housing over the sleeve to retain the animal tracking device on an arrow shaft. The latch release member catches on an animal's hide and flexes the flexible clip out of engagement with the sleeve to release the animal tracking device from the arrow shaft. The prong embeds in the animal's hide and retains the animal tracking device on the animal.