Crab catcher

Details Crab catcher Crab catcher

1981-10-30

1983-09-27

Godici, Nicholas P.

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Traps

Fish

A01K 6910

Patent

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044060831

ABSTRACT:
A crab catcher comprises a net attached to the lower ends of four arms which are pivoted near their upper ends on a ring having a cross-bar. A second ring engages upper ends of the arms in set condition to hold them in and thereby spread the lower ends of the arms out to spread the net. A vertical bait bar is pivoted on the cross-bar of the first ring and has a barbed lower end to hold the bait. The upper end of the bait bar has an eye which is releasably hooked onto a weighted hook on a line which is attached with slack to the bait bar and also to the second ring. A float ring has a central opening receiving upper ends of the arms. A tiltable washer on the bait bar is engageable with points projecting into the central opening of the float ring to retain the float ring until the bait bar is moved in any direction, whereupon the float ring is released and rises to the water surface. An upward pull on the line pulls the second ring off of the upper ends of the arms, whereupon lower ends of the arms swing in to form the net into a bag capturing any crab in the net.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1403171 (1922-01-01), Koenig
patent: 2652656 (1953-09-01), Glasser
patent: 2728164 (1955-12-01), Mears

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