Patent Application
20170128511
The present invention relates generally to the hunting field. In particular, the present invention relates to the ability to calm or sedate animals for purposes of hunting and allowing hunting of animals to be more successful.
It is known in scientific and hunting communities that hunted animals rely mainly on their noses for their survival. They have about 300,000,000 scent receptors—humans have about 5,000,000. What they see or hear will not necessarily is a cause for alarm.
However, the slightest scent of men will send them running at a panic pace . . . it is there first line of defense. To be successful, hunters must get close enough to get a vital shot. This fact is extremely important to bowhunters who have a shooting range less than 30 yards. For bow hunters, it is from ten to thirty yards. For rifle hunters, it will range up to 100 yards. To date, cover-ups, scent elimination, attractants, activated carbon, etc., have been used, but only to varying degrees of success. Therefore, there exists a need for a more effective and dependable product.
One aspect of the present invention is to provide a formulation for calming or sedating hunted animals.
Another aspect of the present invention is to provide at least one method of delivering a formulation into a geographic region in which to make contact with hunted animals.
The present invention introduces a totally new concept to the hunting industry—aromatherapy. It is the use of certain essential oils to take away the sense of fear in the limbic system.
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetherolea, or simply as the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it contains the “essence of” the plant's fragrance—the characteristic fragrance of the plant from which it is derived. The term essential used here does not mean indispensable as with the terms essential amino acid or essential fatty acid which are so-called since they are nutritionally required by a given living organism.
Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation, often by using steam. Other processes include expression, solvent extraction, absolute oil extraction, resin tapping, and cold pressing. They are used in perfumes, cosmetics, soaps and other products, for flavoring food and drink, and for adding scents to incense and household cleaning products.
Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades with the popularity of aromatherapy. Oils can be volatilized or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage (topical application), diffused in the air by a nebulizer, heated over a candle flame, or burned as incense (inhalation) (reference for the definition of an essential oil is given to Wikipedia, 2015, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety). Some essential oils are also safe and effective for ingestion (eating or drinking).
There are approximately 500 essential oils and at least seven oils are thought have a calming effect. The best results require a blend of oils. The present invention expresses “know how” to discern unique modes of action of each oil, compatibility and synergism.
It is therefore thought that inhalation of the essential oils and/or contact with the eyes, hair, antlers and skin of the hunted animals and/or ingestion of the essential oils by the hunted animals will cause bodily absorption of the oil, which additionally impacts the various systems of the hunted animals, with the effects provided herein.
There exists a need in the hunting industry to provide methods and formulations to aid the hunting process in which hunted animals are lured and/or otherwise rendered easier to capture.
In at Least One Aspect of the Invention, a Formulation would Include the Use of at Least One of the Following Ingredients:
In at least another aspect of the invention, a formulation would include a 3% mixture of Frankincense, Lavender and Valerian Root. For example, 15 to 18 drops of said essential oils in 1 ounce of carrier solution ((which may include, but is not limited to: water, diluent, surfactant, alcohol, oil (essential oil, vegetable oil, coconut oil, for example) and any combination thereof)). It is thought, however, that any amount of essential oil, delivered to a hunted animals via the methods and with the components or elements described herein, will or can produce said calming effect.
In at least another aspect of the present invention, it is contemplated herein that a formulation could be delivered to a geographic region via devices and methods known to be used in the hunting industry, including but not limited to, a spray bottle (pump, aerosol, etc.), a liquid dropper, scent wick and/or other liquid/aerosol delivery tools. By inhalation, ingestion by eating vegetation in the geographic region or by making topical contact with the vegetation in the geographic region (and/or any combination thereof), the essential oil will be internalized by hunted animals, creating the desired calming effect to render hunted animals easier to capture.
In at least another aspect of the present invention, said formulation could be combined with other hunted animal products (for example, commercially available or homemade doe scent, buck scent, scent lock/scent block products, etc., as previously described and disclosed herein—all of which are known to be used in the hunting industry) to further enhance the ability to attract and calm hunted animals.
Although the invention has been described in terms of particular embodiments and applications, one of ordinary skill in the art, in light of this teaching, can generate additional embodiments and modifications without departing from the spirit of or exceeding the scope of the claimed invention. Accordingly, it is to be understood that the drawings and descriptions herein are proffered by way of example to facilitate comprehension of the invention and should not be construed to limit the scope thereof.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/076,711 filed Nov. 7, 2014 entitled FORMULATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALMING DEER and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
