Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing
Patent
1996-10-23
1999-01-26
Carone, Michael J.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
A01K 7900, A01K 9700
Patent
active
058626204
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an apparatus for conveying fish hooks, especially separate fish hooks, one by one to a baiting machine. The apparatus includes a rail, for the reception of fish hooks in a hanging condition on the top of the rail, an associated feeding arrangement, for conveying the fish hooks in series along the rail towards one end, a hook-handling arrangement, for handling the fish hooks one after the other relative to the rail, and a chute, for delivering fish hooks to the baiting machine.
The apparatus according to the invention is more especially designed for use in connection with the baiting of fish hooks for fishing lines, where the fish hooks are introduced one by one into a baiting machine in connection with a baiting operation. The apparatus is particularly, but not exclusively, intended for use in connection with the handling of separate, that is to say loose fish hooks, the fish hooks in connection with a baiting operation or immediately after a baiting operation, being connected individually to an associated supply on a fishing line by means of connecting means known per se.
The apparatus shall thus be able to handle separate, that is to say loose fish hooks, which at the starting point are not connected with the supply. The movement of the fish hooks can thereby not be controlled by the movement of an associated supply, as previously conventional in connection with the baiting operation, for example as is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,631,850, but must be controlled mainly by the apparatus itself. By this it is important that each single fish hook assumes precisely the position intended.
It is an object of the invention to produce a relatively simple apparatus, which can convey fish hooks individually by way of simple means to a baiting machine, so that the fish hooks can be delivered directly to the baiting machine in an accurate manner in a specific position.
The apparatus according to the invention is characterised in that the hook-handling arrangement comprises a slide member, which is displaceable between a nook catching position and a hook delivery position in a path across the end of the rail, and in that the slide member in a front side thereof is provided with a cavity facing towards the end of the rail and adapted for reception of a portion or a fish hook therein. The cavity in the hook catching position of the slide member extends flush with an adjacent fish hook on the rail for automatic reception of the adjacent fish hook by means of a pushing force exerted by the feeding arrangement. The front side of the slide member beyond the cavity is adapted to bar a succeeding fish hook in a subsequent row of fish hooks on the feeding arrangement in side positions outside the hook catching position. The cavity in the hook delivery position of the slide member is uncovered outside the rail for automatic release of the fish hook for delivery into the chute to the baiting machine.
In connection with the baiting in a baiting machine there can also be effected an associated quality sorting. In this connection, the apparatus as indicated above is well-suited and the quality sorting can be effected without appreciable complications in a controlled manner with the single fish hook in an accurately established position. The quality sorting can be effected immediately in front of the baiting machine.
According to the invention, a positively controlled handling of the fish hooks is ensured by means of the slide member having an associated cavity which receives fish hooks one by one. The feeding arrangement is constantly feeding forwardly a series of fish hooks to the hook handling arrangement. The transfer of the fish hooks from the feeding arrangement to the delivery location can thus occur in a simple, accurately controlled manner, so that the fish hooks in the delivery position can assume an accurate position in connection with the subsequent baiting operation.
In the concept suggested above, the slide member is allowed to be deplaced in a plane crossing the longitudinal axis of the h
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Ark Darren
Carone Michael J.
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