Flip float

Details Flip float Flip float

1999-01-11

2000-01-04

Lavinder, Jack W.

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Fishing

Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs

43 4487, 43 449, 43 4314, A01K 9300

Patent

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060096594

ABSTRACT:
A flip float is fishing float comprising a floatation ball having differently, distinguishably colored first and second halves with a shaft extending through the floatation ball perpendicular to the interface between the halves. A stem assembly containing an internal weight and stops on either end of the stem assembly is disposed to slide within the shaft between the stops contained at the ends of the stem assembly. When the float is inverted, the stem assembly shifts from one stop to the other and changes the center of gravity of the float which causes the float to remain inverted. A fisherman can tell at a glance, by noticing which color is out of the water, whether his line has been struck. Attachment of differently colored, reflecting material to the ends of the tube allows the fisherman to shine a light on the float at night to determine whether his line has been struck.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2004414 (1935-11-01), Menefee
patent: 2157003 (1939-04-01), Mussina
patent: 2493971 (1950-04-01), Johnson
patent: 2591332 (1952-04-01), Behensky
patent: 4458439 (1984-07-01), Garret, Sr.
patent: 5784829 (1998-07-01), Latta
patent: 5852894 (1998-12-01), Shannon

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