Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Fixed support line handling means – e.g. – trawls
Patent
1988-04-13
1989-05-02
Jordan, M.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Fixed support line handling means, e.g., trawls
A01K 9500
Patent
active
048255858
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for connecting leaders to a fishing line and for hauling in or paying out said line.
The technical field of the invention is sea fishing.
Fishing boats at sea often make use of fishing lines referred to as "long lines" which comprise a master line constituted by a strong cord having fixed thereon lengths of line which terminate in fish hooks and which are called "leaders".
Fishing boats are fitted with mechanical means for hauling in lines and generally comprising means for rotating a drum onto which the master line is wound. The presence of the leaders fixed to the master line complicates the operations of mechanically hauling in or paying out the lines since the hooks may tangle or catch.
Various solutions have been proposed.
Instead of being wound onto drums, the lines may be coiled down into baskets with the hooks being hooked to the edges of the basket.
It is also possible to wind the master line onto the drum of a winch while manually removing the leaders.
These traditional solutions greatly slow down the rate at which the operations of hauling in and paying out the lines can take place.
Solutions have also been proposed in which the leaders remain connected to the master line and where the hooks on the leaders are stored on a rail or follow a magnetic track.
French patent application FR-A-2 527 046 (SERN) describes a hauling device including a magnetic guide strip for the hooks leading them to a winding drum where an operator catches hold of them and hooks them in a slot situated around the drum.
Long line type lines present another difficulty, namely the fixing of bait to the hooks.
An object of the present invention is to provide a means of connecting leaders to the master line which enables the leaders to be maintained spread out along the master line during fishing and which also allows the leaders to be disconnected from the master line during the operations of hauling in or paying out so as to make it possible to wind the master line alone on a rotated drum or to pay it out from such a drum without being hindered by the presence of the hooks.
Another object of the present invention is to provide devices for receiving lines and their leaders and for paying them out at high speed by virtue of an original device for connecting the leaders to the master line which simultaneously makes it possible to obtain automatic fixing of bait on the hooks while the line is being paid out.
The objects of the invention are achieved by a novel method of a method of connecting leaders to a fishing line of the long line type, the method being characterized in that each leader is fixed to the large loop of a connection fastening in the form of two loops which includes a small loop diametrically opposed to the fixing of the leader on the large loops, with a master line carrying abutments being engaged through the fastenings, the transverse dimensions of the abutments being greater than the openings through the small loops such that when the leaders are pulled, the line passes into the small loops which abut against said abutments, it being possible to disconnect the leaders from the master line during the operations of winding in or paying out the master line by causing it to pass through the large loops of said fastenings.
A method in accordance with the invention for mechanically hauling in or paying out a fishing line carrying leaders fitted with connection fastenings each in the form of a pair of loops with the master line passing therethrough is characterized in that the master line is passed inside a rectilinear tubular guide which guides said large loops of said fastenings along the inside or the outside thereof, and the hooks of said leaders are caused to slide along a rectilinear guide rail which extends parallel to said tubular guide.
Apparatus in accordance with the invention for connecting leaders to a long line type of fishing line comprises fastenings in the form of two unequal loops which communicate with each other, with each leader being fix
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