Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
043440920 | With relatively movable parts and/or resilient construction for attachment to line | 10 |
20080282599 | Bead attachment - A device made of a thermoplastic material having two portions connected together with a web or hinge. A first portion forms a main body and the second portion forms a lid or cover. When the lid is aligned and closed onto the main body, the shape of the unitary device may be spherical, elliptical or another shape. The main body allows for one or more lines or strings to rest within a channel formed in the main body parallel to a pivot axis of the hinge so that when the lid is closed into the main body the strings are trapped within the channel of the main body by the lid. | 11-20-2008 |
20090255170 | LOCKING SWIVEL APPARATUS - A unified swivel snap device provides optional rotational motion for use as fishing tackle to couple lures, bait hooks, and weights to a main fishing line. Embodiments include a rod rotatably held within a housing and a snap configured to lock the swivel by attaching to both the housing and the rod. Embodiments of the swivel can be unlocked by attaching the snap to the rod alone and allowing the rod to swivel relative to the housing. The swivel snap can be used for enhancing a variety of fishing mechanisms including the shank of jigs and the spindle of lures and other apparatus attached to fishing lines. Embodiments of the locking swivel snap can be used in other applications which call for selective locking of swivel motion. | 10-15-2009 |
20110247261 | FISHING JIG - A wahoo fishing jig comprises a barrel swivel, a first ring welded to the barrel swivel, a chain body having a plurality of links connected with the first ring, a second ring connected to a last link of the plurality of links, J hook connected to the second ring, a hook flag hanging from the J hook, and a pair of hard rubber black washers connected by a barrel and held by a pair of screws that freely moves inside a first link of the plurality of links. The chain body and the pair of hard rubber black washers produce noise in water and the pair of hard rubber black washers secured by the pair of screws resembles floating eyes. The chain body collapses and the J hook swings into the mouth and face of the wahoo fish regardless of on which link the wahoo fish bites. | 10-13-2011 |
20110283596 | Fishing Float Device for Ice Fishing - The invention is a fishing float device specifically to be used on a fish line as a fish bite indicator for ice fishing. The fishing float device provides a simple means of attachment and release allowing greater versatility fishing through ice. By design this system slides on gripping the fish line by utilizing friction versus fixed to the fish line allowing an angler to fish at any depth through ice and remove, or dislodge the fishing float with ease when desired. | 11-24-2011 |
20120060404 | Screw-ball strike indicator - A fly fishing device for indicating a strike from a fish which suspends a fly or lure a fixed distance above the bottom of a lake or river is disclosed. The device may include a strike indicator made from foam or other buoyant materials that includes a threaded set screw and O-Ring to attach the line/leader to the indicator body. Most strike indicators are either difficult to attach, or difficult to adjust. This invention will allow easy attachment, and easy adjustment. | 03-15-2012 |
20130091756 | Line Connector Apparatus - A line connector apparatus for removably engaging a flexible line to an article, the apparatus including a beam with an external surface, the beam also including a flexible line end and an opposing article end. The apparatus has a void disposed partially within the flexible line end and the void is also partially formed from an open channel adjacent to the external surface. The void having a slip fit clearance with the flexible line, wherein the void communicates therethrough the flexible line end and the void receives the flexible line allowing the flexible line to be manually feed therethrough the void. The apparatus includes structure for selectively compressing the flexible line that is positioned within the open channel to change the slip fit clearance to an interference fit and the opposing article end is attached to the article. Operationally, the flexible line is affixed to the article via the beam. | 04-18-2013 |
20130145677 | FISH FINDER APPARATUS - According to an embodiment of the present invention, an improved fish finder apparatus is provided that allows for the apparatus to be attached to and removed from a fishing line without need to cut said fishing line. This is achieved by providing an improved fish finder apparatus with a channel for receiving fishing line, thread or other filamentous material. One of ordinary skill in the art would appreciate that any type of fishing line, thread, or other filamentous material could be used with embodiments of the present invention, and embodiments of the present invention are contemplated for use with any fishing line, thread or other filamentous material. | 06-13-2013 |
20150013212 | TROLLING DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF FISHING LINE AND LURE SPEED - A trolling device for use in trolling from a moving boat or other water craft is structured to allow the fisher to control the movement of the line and the speed of the lure independently of the movement or speed of the boat or any apparatus used in connection with the boat, such as a downrigger device, the trolling device generally comprising a planar body, a leading end, a trailing end, an upper section and lower section providing for attachment of various devices that enhance the fishing experience, and a channel through which a fishing line or other auxiliary line is positioned to enable the line to be controlled by the user. | 01-15-2015 |
043440930 | Movable wedge or collect ring type | 1 |
20120240449 | Sinker - The present invention is a sinker for fishing. The sinker preferably comprises an attachment cap with a perimeter groove, a cavity and an attachment post with a hole. The cap can be attached to a fishing line or swivel at the attachment post. The cap is insertable into a weighted body through a gasket that interfaces with the perimeter groove. The weighted body preferably has a dimpled cavity that aligns with the cavity of the cap when inserted. The gasket is preferably an O-ring made of natural or synthetic rubber. The cap preferably comprises anodized aluminum and the weighted body preferably comprises steel or stainless steel. | 09-27-2012 |
043440950 | Resiliently biased or elastic line clamping means | 1 |
20100107470 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENGAGING LINES - Particular aspects provide devices and methods for adjustably and reversibly engaging a line (e.g., fishing lines, ropes, string, cable, wire, cords) at an engagement position and/or for demarcating positions/spans along a line. The inventive line-stop members are reversibly disengagable, and thereby slidably adjustable and positionable along a line, and can be used to define a user-selectable range or span. Particular embodiments comprise: an elongated line-clamping member having at least one pair of line-clamping arms and having a longitudinal axial bore suitable to allow slidable passage of a line therethrough; and a cylindrical engagement collar having a collar channel therethrough and slidably positionable along the line-clamping member, and suitable and positionable to reversibly hold the line-clamping member in a line-clamping/engagement position, and suitable and positionable to reversibly disengage the line-clamping member from the line-clamping position to reversibly disengage a line. Preferred line-stop embodiments comprise an accessory attachment member or collar. | 05-06-2010 |