Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Line-attached bodies – hooks and rigs
Patent
1977-05-17
1978-12-19
Coven, Edward M.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs
H01K 9500
Patent
active
041299566
ABSTRACT:
A diving apparatus is placed in serial connection in a fish line proximate to the trailing and submerged end of the line as the line is used in trolling. The apparatus includes a planar diving platform constructed with a transverse base area at the leading end of the platform having trailing and projecting flukes spaced to form a longitudinally extending and rearwardly opening central slot. A keel is fastened normally to the plane of the platform and depends forwardly of the slot to define a sinker holding surface on which paired, substantially hemispherical weights are fastened on either side thereof. Two normally depending and projecting fins extend normally down from the planar surface of the platform immediately juxtaposed to both sides of the slot. The release member has one portion connected to the leading end of the fish line and a second member connected to the trailing edge of th fish line. This release member clamps medially at an intermediate catch member to a bar spanning the slot and is held by the projecting fins in rigid, side-by-side relation to form an effectively rigid, three-dimensional locked and clamped position. When the platform is being pulled through the water in trolling, it dives and trolls in essentially a vertical plane including the path of the trailing line, this vertical plane being in the wake of towing of the line. Entanglement with adjoining, closely spaced trolling lines is avoided. Provision is made for conventional release from the three-dimensional diving position on occurrence of a strike.
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patent: 3583089 (1971-06-01), Scarbro
patent: 3643370 (1972-02-01), Cools et al.
patent: 3813809 (1974-06-01), Frotiee
patent: 3839813 (1974-10-01), DeSmidt
patent: 3897648 (1975-08-01), Neary
patent: 3940872 (1976-03-01), Weber
Coven Edward M.
Troller Corporation
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