Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Artificial bait
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-23
2001-10-16
Poon, Peter M. (Department: 3643)
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Artificial bait
C043S042000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06301822
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to fishing lures with noise making capabilities and, in particular, to a variety of lures and/or fishing accessories (e.g. snell, spoon bait, spinner bait, crank bait, bottom bouncer, jig, dropper weight) outfitted with repelling magnets that rattle or click with lure movement to create noise.
Noise has been well documented in fishing literature as an attractant to fish. In actual practice, however, water can mute sounds emitted from a lure. Attendant fluid and aerodynamic properties of a lure can affect the emitted sound. Capillary action between adjacent lure parts and lure motion can also cause any sound making parts that are exposed to the water to stick together or move slowly. Parts mounted in watertight chambers overcome the foregoing, but the sounds are muted by the sound insulating properties of the surrounding chambers.
Lures of numerous designs with alternative solutions to the problem have been developed. Such lures include pieces and accessories that are positioned to physically contact each other to emit sounds with lure movement. Many presentations provide capsules or chambers that support rattles. Others provide metal weights and/or glass beads that are mounted to slide to and fro to physically strike each other.
Magnets have also been used in fishing lures. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,114,305 and 5,987,802 disclose lures with magnetic switches. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,777,758 and 4,878,310 disclose lures with magnetic accessory retainers and hook retainers.
More relevant to the subject invention is U.S. Pat. No. 5,924,236 and which discloses a lure having a rotating magnet that alternately repels and attracts pivoting fins that contain other magnets.
In distinction to the foregoing lures, the present lures were developed to provide a number of alternative lure constructions wherein the magnets are supported in a linear or co-axial permanent repelling relation to one another. Normal lure movement alternately overcomes the natural repulsive forces to cause the magnets to strike one another before the pole pieces are repelled apart until the next movement of the lure. The opposed magnetic fields particularly overcome capillary and/or gravitational attraction and adhesion forces between adjoining lure pieces.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is accordingly a primary object of the invention to provide a fishing lure outfitted with at least one pair of magnetic pole pieces that are mounted in permanent repulsive relation to one another and that strike and repel from each other with normal lure movement.
It is a further object of the invention to provide snell type lures wherein magnet pieces are arranged for reciprocating motion along a filamentary support.
It is a further object of the invention to provide bored magnets, such as beads that either include magnetic core pieces or are magnetized, and that can be attached to snells, crank baits, spoon baits and wire forms.
It is a further object of the invention to provide lures with magnet containing pieces that are constrained to move in a defined association to each other, for example, pivot or flutter in relation to a common anchor point or reciprocate into and out of contact along a common filamentary support.
It is a further object of the invention to provide crank bait lures wherein lure pieces having adjoining magnetic pole pieces are mounted for axial movement along a common support.
Many of the foregoing objects, advantages and distinctions of the invention are obtained in a number of alternative lures and/or fishing accessories. Various arrangements disclose bored magnet pieces that are arranged along a filamentary support for reciprocating motion, such as in “Carolina” rigs or other snell type baits. Other magnetic pole pieces that arc mounted in axial (e.g. linear or arcuate) repelling relation to each other are shown at body parts of crank baits, wire form baits, spoon baits, jig heads, flutter baits and a dropper weight.
Still other objects, advantages, distinctions and alternative constructions and/or combinations of the invention will become more apparent from the following description with respect to the appended drawings. Similar components and assemblies are referred to in the various drawings with similar alphanumeric reference characters. The description should not be literally construed in limitation of the invention. Rather, the invention should be interpreted within the broad scope of the further appended claims.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5924236 (2000-07-01), Preston
Copier Floris C
Poon Peter M.
Tschida D. L.
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