Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Fixed support line handling means – e.g. – trawls
Patent
1998-02-03
1999-10-26
Price, Thomas
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Fixed support line handling means, e.g., trawls
A01K 9100
Patent
active
059706465
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to an outhaul device for fishing lines as specified in the introduction to claim 1.
An outhaul device of this type is known in the prior art, where the line extends between a number of wheels which are arranged in succession in the line-hauling direction and displaced in relation to one another across it, with the result that the line extends in an S-shape between the wheels. Thus even a wet monofilament line can be pulled out from a line store without any risk of the line sliding on the wheels. This outhaul device, however, is only arranged to haul a line without snells, since the snells have to be attached to securing devices on the line on the downstream side of the outhaul device, considered in the hauling direction. The reason for this is that the S-shaped line path through the outhaul device may easily cause the line and the snells to become tangled, with any bait being flung off the hooks due to the rapid change in speed, i.e. change in direction. Moreover, the wheels are not designed to yield to the snells' securing devices when they are passed between the wheels.
The snells are thereby attached to the line via the securing devices on the downstream side of the outhaul device, a task which at present is performed manually, and which is acceptable only if the number of snells is small, e.g. in tuna fishing, if there is a substantial distance between the snells and the weather is good. It would be inconceivable, however, to use an outhaul device of this kind in modern line fishing where each line may have, e.g., 40,000 snells.
The object of the invention is to provide an outhaul device of the type mentioned in the introduction which is not encumbered by the abovementioned disadvantages.
The characteristics of the outhaul device according to the invention are presented in the characteristic features indicated in the claims.
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the drawing which schematically illustrates an embodiment of an outhaul device according to the invention.
FIG. 1 is a side view of an outhaul device.
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the outhaul device illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a front view of only the two wheels of the outhaul device.
The terms up and down should be understood to indicate directions towards the edge of the page which faces away from and towards the reader respectively.
As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 a fishing line 2 extends rectilinearly between a pair of wheels 4,6 from a line store 3, via a spool device, at the left side of the page towards the right as indicated by the arrow A, the line store 3 being attached to the hull of a vessel 5 of which only a part is shown. The wheels 4,6 can be rotated about their symmetry axes of rotation 8 and 10 respectively by means of a suitable drive device, e.g. hydraulic motors (not shown), both wheels preferably being driven. The symmetry axes extend in a common plane which extends substantially perpendicularly to the line hauling direction. The wheels' contact surfaces 12, 14 abut against each other, thus pressing the line against the respective contact surfaces. One contact surface, e.g. contact surface 12, can be made of an elastically yielding material, e.g. rubber, thus enabling the securing devices 16 whereby snells 18 are attached to the line 2 to be received by this contact surface and pass the wheels during line hauling. The second wheel's contact surface is preferably provided with a pattern such as a serration 20 in order to ensure a good connection between the wheel and the line.
In order to prevent the fishing hooks 22 on the snells which have been supplied with bait from being squeezed between the wheels and the bait destroyed, at the wheels there is provided a ramp 30 which extends from a point in front of the wheels 12,14, considered in the line hauling direction, to a point above the wheels. From this point the ramp extends past the wheels to a point on the downstream side thereof.
The ramp 30 has a groove 32 through which the line 2 extends, and which is so wide that t
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Jan Hansen Martin
Johansen Hilbert
Rogne Geir
O. Mustad & Son A/S
Price Thomas
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