Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Automatic hookers or catchers
Patent
1978-02-06
1980-03-18
Watson, Robert C.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Automatic hookers or catchers
H01K 9700
Patent
active
041932200
ABSTRACT:
Fishing apparatus including a longitudinal support member, a cross member pivotable to a position longitudinal of the support member, a coil spring member having a coil portion and substantially straight arms extending a significant distance from each end of the coil portion, one of the arms of the coil spring member being affixed to the support member so the second arm of the spring member is disposed longitudinally of the support member and biased away from the support member, the second spring arm being of a length so that when the second spring arm is disposed adjacent to the support member the free end of the second spring arm extends beyond an end of the support member, the free end of the second spring arm having a line-guiding portion, a rotatable line storage reel mounted on the support member between the coil portion of the coil spring member and the end of the support member remote from the free end of the second spring arm, locking means engageable with the second spring arm mounted on the support member, and latching means mounted on the support member adjacent the free end of the second spring arm; the latching means including a hook portion engageable with the second spring arm and pivotable transversely of the support member, a support portion pivotally connected to the hook portion, and biasing means urging the hook portion away from the support portion.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3474561 (1969-10-01), McConkey
patent: 3686785 (1972-08-01), Dixon
Bourquin George W.
LaFontain Louis
Urban Arthur L.
Watson Robert C.
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