Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing
Patent
1984-11-23
1987-01-27
Godici, Nicholas P.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
43 573, A01K 7900
Patent
active
046385835
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a conveyor apparatus for an elongated element which has freely suspended thread-formed projections spaced along its length, such as a long fishing line which has freely suspended projections along is length in the form of snoods and a pelt-like textile which has freely suspended projections in the form of hairs or fluff.
2. The Prior Art
It has been previously suggested to use helical springs to keep fishing hooks or snoods in a retainer, the individual hook legs or snoods being pinched between two adjacent windings in the spring. However, the hook legs must be manually forced in between the spring windings and again forced out. Consequently, the helical springs are not suited for continuous movement of the hooks, but merely to retain the same.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention, the conveyor apparatus comprises an endless, tightly wound helical spring which is passed over turning rollers, as well as feed means adapted to introduce the thread-formed projections into the interstices provided between adjacent windings in the helical spring as the spring is bent around one of the turning rollers. When the spring straightens between the turning rollers, the adjacent windings will again move together so as to firmly grip the projections placed therebetween.
The invention also comprises a delivery system in which the spring-formed conveyor means constitutes an essential component, i.e., a delivery system for continuous conveyance of a fishing line from one place at which the line is stored or baited to a place at which the line is passed into the sea.
The invention will be better understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, taken in conjunction with the following discussion.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a view of one embodiment of the inventive helical spring conveyor apparatus.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view at right angles to the axis of the helical spring conveyor apparatus as shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a side view of a delivery system which includes the inventive helical spring conveyor apparatus.
FIG. 4 is a top view of the delivery system as shown in FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a side view of another delivery system which uses a helical spring conveyor apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 6 is a side view, on a larger scale, of the delivery system shown in FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a top view of the delivery system shown in the FIGS. 5 and 6.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
FIGS. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of the conveyor apparatus according to the invention which is adapted to convey a fishing line, not shown, which is provided with snoods 1 in spaced arrangement along its length and each snood being provided with a fishing hook 2 secured thereto by means of a snood head 3. Each of the hooks 2 is shown provided with a bait 4.
The conveyor apparatus consists of a tightly wound tension spring 5 which is so spliced as to work like a belt between a pair of turning rollers 6. The spring 5 is kept tight by a solid element such as a wire 7 which is enclosed in the spring.
In the drawing only one end, the insertion end i.e., of the apparatus is shown, it being assumed that the other end, the extraction end is constructed in the same manner as the insertion end.
The turning rollers 6 are made with such a diameter that the spring 5 is subjected to a bending which corresponds to such a space between the windings as to permit a snood 1 to be passed from a feed device which provides a guide slot 8 into the space and be released, respectively. When the spring 5 is leaving the insertion turning roller, the space between adjacent windings is again closed and the snood is pinched until the windings in question open again at the extraction end of the system.
As shown in FIG. 2, the spring 5 passes between two plates 10 and rests upon guides 11. The hooks 2 with their baits 4 are forwarded in a chute 12 at the side of the spring 5. A guide rail 13 is mounted above the spring 5 and pre
REFERENCES:
patent: 1788353 (1931-01-01), Zademach
patent: 3841011 (1974-10-01), Tison
patent: 4354323 (1982-10-01), Huff
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