Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Reeling device – Fishing rod reel
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-22
2001-04-24
Matecki, Katherine A. (Department: 3653)
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Reeling device
Fishing rod reel
C242S225000, C043S017000, C043S021000, C043S026100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06220538
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to fishing reels and more particularly pertains to a new electronic jigging reel for providing automatic reeling and jigging of a fishing line.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of fishing reels is known in the prior art. More specifically, fishing reels heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U. S. Pat. No. 4,739,944; U.S. Pat. No. 5,004,181; U.S. Pat. No. 4,598,878; U.S. Pat. No. 4,634,072; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 259,503; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,400,979.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new electronic jigging reel. The inventive device includes a motorized reel operationally coupled to a three position switch for permitting constant motorized reeling, pulsed motorized reeling for jigging the fishing line, and manual reeling. Display lights are provided for indicating the current status of the motorized reel. In an embodiment, a fish bite indicator system having audio and visual bite indicators is also included. The motor is powered by a rechargeable battery system.
In these respects, the electronic jigging reel according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing automatic reeling and jigging of a fishing line.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of fishing reels now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new electronic jigging reel construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing automatic reeling and jigging of a fishing line.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new electronic jigging reel apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the fishing reels mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new electronic jigging reel which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art fishing reels, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a motorized reel operationally coupled to a three position switch for permitting constant motorized reeling, pulsed motorized reeling for jigging the fishing line, and manual reeling. Display lights are provided for indicating the current status of the motorized reel. In an embodiment, a fish bite indicator system having audio and visual bite indicators is also included. The motor is powered by a rechargeable battery system.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new electronic jigging reel apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the fishing reels mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new electronic jigging reel which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art fishing reels, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new electronic jigging reel that may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new electronic jigging reel that is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new electronic jigging reel which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such electronic jigging reel economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new electronic jigging reel which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new electronic jigging reel for providing automatic reeling and jigging of a fishing line.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new electronic jigging reel which includes a motorized reel operationally coupled to a three position switch for permitting constant motorized reeling, pulsed motorized reeling for jigging the fishing line, and manual reeling. Display lights are provided for indicating the current status of the motorized reel. In an embodiment, a fish bite indicator system having audio and visual bite indicators is also included. The motor is powered by a rechargeable battery system.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new electronic jigging reel that provides a removable handle for manual reeling and a cap for covering the handle connector when the handle is not coupled to the reel.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.
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