Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Nets
Patent
1995-04-21
1996-12-10
Hail, III, Joseph J.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Nets
A01K 7700
Patent
active
055819290
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a fishing net for use in landing fish.
Fish landing nets for individuals have been provided heretofore, the majority, if not all, of which in their collapsed or retracted carrying state have their bay net or part thereof unprotected, for example in a collapsed loose state at one end of a shaft handle or wound around a shaft handle, and therefore available to be caught or snagged on vegetation, i.e. branches of a bush or tree, as a fisherman is carrying the net to or from a fishing stance or between fishing stances. This is disadvantageous and an object of the present invention is to obviate or mitigate this disadvantage.
Accordingly, the present invention is a fishing net comprising a tubular shaft handle, a net support projecting therefrom in an extended position, the support having two diverging arms connected together by a first flexible element at their outer ends with the inner ends of the arms being pivotally connected to an annular union provided at an outer end of a collar slidable along the handle, a bag net carried by the support around its open mouth, the arms of the net support being movable lengthwise and externally of the handle to a retracted position substantially parallel to the axis of the handle with the net to be accommodated inside the handle, and a second flexible element being secured to the net and threaded internally into the handle to enable the net to be pulled using the second element into the handle on retraction of the support.
Preferably, the arms are slidably engaged in respective divergent passages of a mounting provided at an outer end of the handle. The outer ends of the arms are desirably inwardly bent. The mounting has desirably an inner wall whose inner periphery is of a complementary fit for the handle and an outer wall to define with the outer periphery of the inner wall the divergent passages, the inner periphery of the outer end portions of the outer wall having inward ramps to influence the outer end portions of the arms inwardly, when retracted, for their outer ends to substantially abut each other.
The handle has desirably a radial slot in which a slide, integral with the collar, tracks to prevent rotation between the collar and the handle.
The other end of the second flexible element is desirably threaded through the mounting and the handle to exit therefrom through the slot and a hole in the collar for manually pulling the net into the handle with the arms in a partially or fully retracted position.
Alternatively, the other end of the second flexible element is beneficially secured to the handle adjacent to its outer end, the second element having first passed around a guide provided on the inside portion of the slide, the guide serving to pull the net into the handle as the collar is moved down the handle to a retracted position. The guide may be an apertured extension of the slide providing a limb around which the second element is passed, or may be a low-friction rotatable roller mounted on an extension of the guide.
Preferably also, the collar has a bar catch and the mounting is provided with a hook to engage the catch whereby when the net support is fully extended the hook and catch are engaged. The hook is desirably of resilient material to be capable of being depressed to allow it to be released from the catch for retraction of the arms.
Preferably further, the inner end of the handle is provided with a hand grip.
An embodiment of the present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view from above of a fishing net according to the present invention, the net being shown in an extended position;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a detail at the outer end of a handle with a catch and a hook components about to be engaged;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the fishing net with a partially retracted net support and net;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the fishing net with a fully retracted net support and net;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a det
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Greigg Edwin E.
Greigg Ronald E.
Hail III Joseph J.
JCJ Limited
Miner James
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