Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Line-attached bodies – hooks and rigs
Patent
1993-03-08
1994-01-04
Bradley, Paula A.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs
43 436, A01K 8300
Patent
active
052749460
ABSTRACT:
An improved, two-part weedguard for a fish hook having as one part a U-shaped point guard (10) fashioned from a light-weight, rigid material. The point guard has a longitudinal channel (14) on its upper side in which the fish hook point is cradled. In addition, this channel is of sufficient volume and length so as to completely envelope the hook point, thereby protecting the hook point from fouling on weeds, cover, and other obstacles. The second part consists of a guard mount (22) fashioned from a single strand of resilient steel wire bent upon itself, forming a loop (24), two parallel arms (26) and two terminal ends (28). In addition, the mount has a right angle ward bend in the loop-bearing end. The guard and mount are joined by threading the terminal ends of the arms through two longitudinal through-holes (20) in the channel walls until the guard comes to rest on the ward bend and the loop. In addition, an intermediate bend (32) fixes the guard securely on the arms by entrapment between itself and the ward bend. The intermediate bend also functions as an adjustable hinge, permitting the maintainence of the optimal position of the point guard relative to the hook point throughout a wide range of tension adjustments to the weedguard. The arms incline upward toward and through the eye of the hook, terminating in an acute primary bend (34) and attaching fingers, said fingers being anchored to the hook shank. The primary bend rests on the inside edge of the eye and acts as a resilient, yielding hinge, allowing the guard and mount assembly to flex toward and from the shank.
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patent: 3430378 (1969-03-01), Sweeney
patent: 3465466 (1969-09-01), Showalter
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Bradley Paula A.
Mah Chuck Y.
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