Fishing lures and methods of making fishing lures

Details Fishing lures and methods of making fishing lures Fishing lures and methods of making fishing lures

1999-10-22

2001-02-27

Ark, Darren W. (Department: 3643)

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Fishing

Artificial bait

C043S042240, C043S042280, C043S042320, C043S042330

Reexamination Certificate

active

06192616

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to fishing lures and methods of making them, and more particularly to improved multicolored and salt emitting soft, flexible plastic lures.
Tubular soft plastic fishing lures have been made by coating a solid metal mandrel with molten plastic resin, allowing the plastic to harden and then removing the resulting hollow tubular lure from the mandrel. Attempts to make such tubular lures with two distinct colors from two differently colored thermoplastic resins have not been successful because the plastics run together and the colors become cloudy or mix into an off color when one or both plastics is hot enough to melt. The clouding of the plastics prevents transmission of light through lures that are made from translucent plastics.
The molten plastic from which such soft plastic lures are made has been impregnated with powdered salt in order to impart a salty taste to the lures. This dispersion of finely divided salt throughout the plastic makes the lure colors dull and difficult to control, and the impregnated salt makes translucent plastic lures look cloudy instead of clear, and it diminishes the effectiveness of tiny reflective speckles dispersed within translucent plastics. Also, impregnation with salt distorts the shape of some lure bodies, and impregnation of salt into the interior of a lure delays the release and dissolving of the salt into the water. Plastic lures impregnated with powdered salt are usually lost or damaged before all of the salt can migrate from the interior of the lure into the water being fished, so the salt remaining in the lure is wasted.
OBJECTIVES OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide improved flexible soft bodied plastic fishing lures.
Another object is to provide improved salt emitting fishing lures.
An additional object is to provide multicolored soft plastic fishing lures with distinct colors that do not become cloudy or blur into each other.
Another object is to provide salt emitting fishing lures that immediately release salt into the water being fished.
A further object is to provide salt emitting fishing lures that include salt crystals large enough to attract fish by reflecting light.
An additional object is to provoke strikes from game fish by providing fishing lures with surfaces that resemble the gills of a bait fish or the body parts of an injured or spawning fish.
Another object is to provide multicolored multilayered soft bodied fishing lures that have embedded light reflecting tiny speckles that are visible through an unclouded transparent outer colored plastic layer.
A further object is to provide unitary, integral, multicolored and salt emitting soft bodied plastic fishing lures that are rugged, economical, highly attractive to fish, easy for fishermen to use, and which do not possess defects found in similar prior art fishing lures.
A further object is to provide improved methods for making each of the types of fishing lures described above.
Another object is to prevent the mixing and blurring of colors when multicolored plastic fishing lures are made by dipping a mandrel into molten thermoplastic resins.
Another object is to affix visible salt particles to the exterior surface of a plastic fishing lure, without impregnating the plastic with salt.
Other objects and advantages of the fishing lures and manufacturing methods incorporating this invention will be found in the specification and claims and the scope of the invention will be set forth in the claims.


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