Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing
Patent
1986-03-19
1987-02-10
Jordan, M.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
43 274, 43 4483, A01K 8300, A01K 9104
Patent
active
046414525
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an apparatus for hooking and possibly baiting of a fishing line which is provided with snoods, each snood having a head adapted to be releasably connected to the neck of a fishing hook, the apparatus including a hook magazine for placing hooks in a stack and a pusher for moving the lowermost hook in the stack into engagement with a respective snood head.
The Prior Art
During line fishing it is an advantage to store a line which is not in use in a condition wherein the hooks are not mounted thereon. In this way entanglement of the hooks with each other, with the snoods, and with the line is avoided. It has, therefore, been previously suggested to equip the snoods with heads which permit releasable coupling to the necks of the fishing hooks. A snood head which can be used for this purpose is described in Norwegian Acceptance Print No. 146,935.
The hooking, and possibly the baiting, is preferably performed by use of an apparatus, such as that described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,567,684. The known apparatus comprises a turnable table on which is placed a hook magazine, and possibly a bait magazine, retainers for transitory retaining of snood heads, and possibly a cutting knife for bait. The snood heads are guided one by one in a circular path together with the table, and hooking is carried out automatically at the same time, possibly also baiting, in that the hooks are moved into engagement with snood heads and are possibly also baited by being moved through bait.
Summary of the Invention
The present invention provides an apparatus which carries out the same task, i.e., hooking, possibly combined with baiting, in such a manner that movement of the snood heads and their snoods in a circular path is avoided.
The apparatus in accordance with the invention includes a stationary hook magazine for placing the hooks in a stack, a pusher for moving the hooks into engagement with snood heads, a stationary retainer element, a movable retainer element which is cooperable with the stationary retainer element to retain the snood heads so that they can be connected to hook necks, and a drive mechanism for moving the movable retainer element to release the snood heads after the pusher has moved the hook necks into engagement with the snood heads.
When using an apparatus in accordance with the invention the snood heads are retained one by one by two cooperating retainer elements, one of which is stationary and the other of which is movable, and the retaining ceases automatically when a pusher has moved a hook into engagement with the snood head. Moreover, the apparatus may comprise a bait magazine provided between the hook magazine and the stationary retainer element, and a cutting knife which follows the movement of the movable retainer element in order to cut the bait.
The invention will hereinafter be explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which show an embodiment of an apparatus in accordance with the invention. The drawings only show those parts of the apparatus which have a direct influence on the hooks, the bait and the snood heads, and the drive mechanism for movement of the parts has not been shown. The embodiment shown also performs baiting.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows a plan view of the apparatus in an initial position, whereby a snood head is situated between the retainer elements.
FIG. 2 shows a section along the line A--A in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows the apparatus seen horizontally, in a direction towards the right in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 shows a plan view of the apparatus, in a position where the lowermost retainer element has been moved slightly away from the initial position, and the cutting knife has started cutting the bait, while the pusher has started to move a hook towards the snood head.
FIG. 5 shows a section along the line C--C in FIG. 4.
FIG. 6 shows a plan view of the apparatus, in a position where the lowermost retainer element has been moved away from the stationary retainer e
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