Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing
Patent
1977-01-27
1978-09-19
Kinsey, Russell R.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
126360A, A01K 9700
Patent
active
041143043
ABSTRACT:
A tapered tubular casing of sheet metal has an open upper end and a closed bottom end. Sheet metal connectors having upwardly and downwardly directed tangs are spot welded to diametrically opposite portions of the casing adjacent the upper end thereof. The upper ends of two flexible chains are attached to holes in the lower tangs. One chain is somewhat shorter than the other, the shorter chain having an open hook attached to its free end and the longer chain having a snap hook attached to its free end. When the device is in use to keep an ice fishing hole from refreezing, the open hook is releasably fastened to an eye screw anchored in the floor of a fish house and the snap hook is similarly releasably fastened to a second eye screw. When the open hook is disengaged from its eye screw and combustible material, such as balled newspaper or charcoal lighter fluid, is placed in the device and ignited, the heat causes the casing to free itself and pop up from the surrounding ice, the snap hook on the longer chain restraining the device from popping completely out of the water. When the ice fisherman leaves his fish house for any length of time, he re-engages the hooks with the eye screws. In this way, he need only repeat the igniting of the combustible material when he again wishes to fish, there being no need to chop or auger a new hole.
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patent: 3056272 (1962-10-01), Eilers
patent: 3128758 (1964-04-01), Schwabe
patent: 3204630 (1965-09-01), Rydeen
Kinsey Russell R.
Leach Daniel J.
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