Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Artificial bait
Patent
1991-04-29
1992-12-01
Seidel, Richard K.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Artificial bait
43 4211, 43 4246, 43 4313, A01K 8500
Patent
active
051670887
ABSTRACT:
The activator is cut and shaped from sheet plastic and installed on the leader just in front of the lure attached to the leader. Motion of the lure and activator through water causes the activator to oscillate angularly, generating alternating lateral forces on the leader and thereby activating the lure. In a preferred embodiment the planform of the activator is circular with a hole at its center and the activator is creased radially from the hole to its perimeter so that the portions of the activator adjoining the crease are at a shallow angle to each other. Creasing, as different from bending or forming, stretches the material at the open side of the angle at the crease beyond its elastic limit and allows it to take a set. The stretched material is under compression when the part is finished, the compression holding the adjoining portions at an angle. This technique virtually eliminates the tendency of the plastic to resume its preformed shape and allows manual adjustment of the angle. Alernate embodiments include polygonal and elliptical planforms, two radial creases at angles to each other ranging from 1 degree to 180 degrees or one or more chordal creases that do not intersect the center hole. The activator may be slit from the hole to the perimeter to facilitate installation and removal.
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Hong Patty E.
Jenny Robert W.
Seidel Richard K.
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