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US 10,881,088 B2Granted
Fishing lure
AssigneeDreamweaver Lure Company, Inc.
InventorsShane Ruboyianes, Michiel van de Ven, Karl Chapel, Robert Chapel
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Abstract
A spinning fishing lure comprising a winged plug body with a tapered rear portion having an exterior circumferential array of protruding vanes, and a larger substantially cylindrical hollow front portion with an open face and an annular interior volume. The annular interior volume includes a central hollow stem defining a passageway for fishing line and water, and the lower or bottom end of the annular interior volume is partially closed by a tapered interior end wall and vented out the back of the plug body by smaller flow passages.
Claims17
A spinning type fishing lure comprising:
- a tapered cylinder plug body comprising a pair of spinner wings projecting from opposing sides of an outside surface of the plug body, the plug body comprising a hollow open face front portion comprising a first larger diameter portion of the plug body including a maximum diameter of the plug body, and a tapered rear portion comprising a second smaller diameter portion of the plug body decreasing in diameter toward a minimum diameter of the plug body at a tail end;
- a vane array of straight, longitudinal vanes parallel to a longitudinal axis of the plug body and circumferentially and evenly disposed around the outside surface along a length of the tapered rear portion and comprising outer vane edges spaced radially from the outside surface of the tapered rear portion, the outer vane edges defining a vane array diameter greater than the second smaller diameter over the length of the tapered rear portion.
A spinning type fishing lure comprising:
- a tapered cylinder plug body comprising a pair of spinner wings projecting from opposing sides of an outside surface of the plug body, the plug body comprising a substantially constant diameter hollow open face front portion comprising a first larger diameter portion of the plug body, and a taperered rear portion comprising a second smaller diameter portion of the plug body decreasing in diameter toward a tail end of the plug body;
- a vane array of straight, longitudinal vanes circumferentially and evenly disposed around the outside surface along a length of the tapered rear portion and comprising outer vane edges spaced radially from the outside surface of the tapered rear portion, the outer vane edges defining a vane array diameter greater than the second smaller diameter over the length of the tapered rear portion, wherein the vane array diameter is less than the first larger diameter of the front portion of the plug body.
A spinning type fishing lure comprising:
- a tapered cylinder plug body comprising a pair of spinner wings projecting from opposing sides of an outside surface thereof, the plug body comprising a substantially constant diameter hollow open face front portion of a first greater diameter, and a tapered rear portion of a second lesser diameter less than the first diameter and decreasing toward a tail end;
- a vane array of straight, longitudinal vanes circumferentially and evenly disposed around the outside surface along a length of the tapered rear portion and comprising outer vane edges spaced radially from the outside surface of the tapered rear portion, the outer vane edges defining a vane array diameter greater than the second lesser diameter over the length of the tapered rear portion,
- wherein the front portion comprises an annular interior volume around a central stem, the central stem including a longitudinal line passageway for fishing line and for the flow of water therethrough, the longitudinal line passageway exiting at the tail end of the plug body;
- wherein the annular interior volume and the central stem extend from an interior wall in the tapered rear portion to the open face of the front portion, and,
- wherein the interior wall comprises two balanced flow passages located radially outward from the central line passageway, the flow passages defining a combined flow area less than an area of the open face of the front portion of the plug body and exiting along opposing sides of the rear tapered portion of the plug body.
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