Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Illuminated – e.g. – luminous
Patent
1990-05-01
1991-04-09
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Illuminated, e.g., luminous
43 449, 43 4488, A01K 9712
Patent
active
050053108
ABSTRACT:
A floating tip-up fishing rig is provided having a float body, a flagpole, and spring means mounted atop said body at one end thereof and connected to the bottom portion of the flagpole urging it to an upright position. A tube is disposed vertically through the float body substantially centrally thereof, and extends below and above the body. The tube has a reduced wall or groove portion immediately below the body and above the bottom of the tube, and a fishline is coiled about the tube in that groove portion. Extending down from the central portion of the flagpole is a string, the bottom end of which is connected to the eye end of a cotter pin. The cotter pin has a flared open end opposite the eye end and an elongated closed portion in between those ends. The string and cotter pin extend down into the tube when the flagpole is in a horizontal or slightly raised position. The tube has a J-slot in its top end into which the flagpole is placed for holding it in horizontal position. The tube has a vertical slit extending up from its bottom to near the groove portion of the tube, and the fishline may be pulled from its coiled up portion through slit into the tube and set in the closed portion of the cotter pin. The slit is flared at its bottom to enhance that setting operation, and the flared open end of the cotter pin further enhances it. The tube, across from the slit, is shorter than at the slit to thereby provide a recess opening for easy finger access to the tube for the setting operation. The flagpole at its free end is bent to form a lift hook.
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American Institute of Taxidermy, Inc.
Herriot Howard M.
Rowan Kurt
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