Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Artificial bait
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-26
2001-03-13
Lavinder, Jack W. (Department: 3624)
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Artificial bait
C043S043100, C043S042040
Reexamination Certificate
active
06199313
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a device for attracting fish through a clicking sound. The device is attached to the line of a fishing rod.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Clicking sounds have long been used by fishermen to attract fish to their bait. Sounds have normally been made with metal weights and glass or ceramic beads threaded on their fishing line and allowed to contact each other in the process of moving the bait. These methods require that the bait be moved significantly to produce the sounds that are intended.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device which may be used to easily attract fish with a clicking sound without moving the bait, and which may also be used to easily change the amount of weight on such an apparatus.
The device comprises having a sound chamber with internal threaded grooves and a sound plunger with a reed which contacts the grooves of the sound chamber. The plunger has a rest position and a pulled position. The device is forced back to the rest position by means of a compression spring placed between the spring seat of the chamber and the plunger seat. The plunger is attached to the fishing line and when pulled, lets the reed in the plunger seat strike the threaded grooves of the chamber seat. The spring is also compressed in this motion until the plunger seat reaches the spring seat, which is near the front of the sound chamber. When the fishing line is released, the compression spring drives the plunger and plunger seat back to the rest position striking the reed against the chamber grooves on the way back.
In another embodiment, the plunger has at least one spring biased member for engaging the chamber grooves as the plunger moves for making the sound.
The device also comprises a tail section which is threaded so as to fit into the threads of the sound chamber. The tail section is tapered as to form a cone shape at it's end and a hole near the end of the cone to affix a split ring. The ring is tied to a fishing line section tied to a hook or bait. The tail section also has a hollow chamber inside the male threaded portion and four tapered holes which are larger on the external portion of the tail. The holes make an amplifying effect of the sound produced in the sound chamber portion. The tail section can be unscrewed from the sound chamber so as to increase or decrease the weight of the device depending on the size of the tail that is attached.
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Lavinder Jack W.
Zobal Arthur F
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