Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Line-attached bodies – hooks and rigs
Patent
1995-04-21
1996-03-19
Bradley, P. Austin
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs
43 431, A01K 9500
Patent
active
054994721
ABSTRACT:
A snag-resistant wholly recoverable sinker for the distal end of a fishing line includes a bag into which a plurality of beads strung on a line are placed, the end of the line being attached to the lip of the bag, and the mouth of the bag being elastically constricted by a resilient collar. The diameter of the first bead at the proximal end of the string of beads is greater than the diameter of any of the remaining beads. When the bag becomes snagged, the fisherman has only to pull hard enough on the line to draw the larger first bead through the mouth of the bag against the resistance of the resilient collar after which the smaller beads follow thereby reducing the size of the bag until it is freed. In an extreme case, all the beads will be pulled from the bag, and they will be followed by the empty bag to which the distal end of the line is attached. Significantly, no parts of the sinker are lost in the process of freeing it, and the sinker may be reeled in and reassembled by the fisherman for reuse.
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patent: 3744177 (1973-07-01), Cron, Jr.
patent: 4821449 (1989-04-01), Hafer
Bradley P. Austin
Elpel Jeanne M.
McKown Daniel C.
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