Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – With line shock absorber or resilient extension feature
Patent
1988-04-06
1989-01-03
Crosby, Gene P.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
With line shock absorber or resilient extension feature
43 4202, A01K 9100
Patent
active
047947225
ABSTRACT:
A fishing device for preventing a line from breaking when a fish has been hooked. The fishing device comprises a hollow cylinder in which a piston is slidably mounted. The piston is provided on one of its flat surfaces with a rod that extends out of the cylinder. The free end of the rod is formed with an eyelet. A tab with a similar eyelet is provided at the opposite end of the cylinder. On its other flat surface, the piston is provided with a pair of elastic jaws that engage the end of a retaining stud that is solid with the cylinder. A coil spring is fitted around the piston rod and bears at one end on the cylinder and at its other end on the piston. To use the fishing device, the adjacent ends of two line portions are connected to the eyelets. When the jaws are engaged on the stud, the piston is solid with the cylinder and a fish may be struck as if the line were uninterrupted. Once hooked, a fish can exert considerable pulls on the line. These pulls cause the piston to disengage from the stud so as to be damped by the spring, thereby reducing the strain on the line and helping it not to break.
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