Supports – Staff type – Bracket
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-07
2003-09-30
Baxter, Gwendolyn (Department: 3632)
Supports
Staff type
Bracket
C248S538000, C248S520000, C043S021200
Reexamination Certificate
active
06626409
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a fishing rod holder. More specifically, the invention pertains to an adapter which holds a fly rod in a flush mount fishing rod holder.
Fishing boats of typically provided with an array of fishing rod holders in which various rods are held at ready during fishing trips. The rod holders typically include rod holder racks and batteries mounted on the cockpit walls, on so-called rocket launchers, and on radar mounts, and flush mounted holders—also referred to as flush mounts. The flush mounts are inserts with an open face plate attached flat on a wall of the boat and a pipe section projecting from the face plate and into the interior of the boat wall.
Fishing rods are held in such rod holders by inserting the rod handle up to the reel, i.e. up to the clamp which attaches the reel to the rod handle. Rods with longer handles and trolling rods are inserted all the way into the pipe section until the butt of the handle impinges on a pin at the end of the pipe section. The insertion depth is typically in the order of 6 to 12 inches.
Fly rods for fly fishing are different from spinning rods in that fly fishing reels are attached very close to the fly rod butt. Fly rods can therefore not be inserted into such handle-insertion type mounts to an extent that would suffice to hold the rod vertically or slightly inclined.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a fishing rod holder, which overcomes the above-mentioned disadvantages of the heretofore-known devices and methods of this general type and which allows fly rods to be held in conventional fishing rod holders such as flush mounts and rod batteries.
With the foregoing and other objects in view there is provided, in accordance with the invention, a fishing rod holder for holding a fishing rod of the type having a handle and a bracket attaching a reel at the handle, the fishing rod holder comprising:
a first pipe section formed with an insertion opening and having an inner diameter enabling an insertion of a handle of a fishing rod through the insertion opening and into the first pipe section along an insertion direction;
a second pipe section rigidly connected to the first pipe section and projecting away from the first pipe section distally of the insertion opening; and
the first pipe section having a slot formed therein extending in the insertion direction away from the insertion opening.
In accordance with an added feature of the invention, the first and second pipe sections are integrally formed in one piece. Alternatively, the first and second pipe sections are glued to one another.
In accordance with an additional feature of the invention, the slot is an L-shaped slot having a longitudinal component extending longitudinally from the insertion opening and a transverse component extending transversely away from the longitudinal component in a circumferential direction.
In accordance with a further feature of the invention, the second pipe section has an outer diameter enabling an insertion thereof into a flush mount fishing rod holder.
In accordance with again another feature of the invention, the second pipe section has a plurality of notches formed therein for engaging into an alignment pin in the flush mount fishing rod holder.
In accordance with a concomitant feature of the invention, the slot has a width adapted to a width of a bracket attaching a reel to the fishing rod so as to enable an insertion of the bracket beyond the insertion opening and a given insertion depth into the first pipe section.
Other features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in a fishing rod holder, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
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Baxter Gwendolyn
Mayback Gregory L.
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