US 11,985,963 B2Granted

Dual release roller clip for kite fishing

AssigneeCerberus Fishing Systems, Inc.

InventorAnthony S. Estrada

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Abstract

A clip for attaching a fishing line to a kite line. The clip mounts on the housing for loosely supporting the fishing line. The clip includes a pair of top rollers and a bottom roller aligned in parallel during operation. The rollers rotate freely to prevent twisting of the kite line. The rollers do cooperate to hold the kite line and prevent axial motion between the kite line and the rollers of the clip. The clip is moveable between a locked configuration where the clip is secured axially to the fishing line and is capable of holding the fishing line, to an unlocked configuration that releases the fishing line. When bait at one end of the fishing line is hit or tugged, the clip releases both the fishing line and the kite line to enable the clip to slid down the kite line away from the kite and fishing line.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A clip for attaching a fishing line to a kite line, comprising:

a housing;
a top roller set hinged to the housing for receiving the kite line;
a latch mounted on the housing for receiving the fishing line, the latch is moveable between a locked configuration that is capable of loosely holding the fishing line, and an unlocked configuration that is capable of fully releasing the fishing line;
the fishing line has at least one hook for holding bait and hooking a fish;
and
a bottom roller that is adjustably distanced from the top roller set in response to locking and unlocking the clip, at least one of the bottom roller and top roller set are manufactured from marine grade nitrile butadiene having a softness within the range of 45-100 durometer to enable the bottom roller and the top roller set to grip the kit line sufficiently to normally suspend the fishing line with the hook and the bait on the latch;
the latch releases the fishing line when the bait is hit by the fish.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.