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US 12,369,573 B2Granted
Spring-free floating device for locking about a fishing line
OwnerEdward Scott Carlson, Charles A. Lanagerinventors
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Abstract
The present invention provides a floating locking device that includes two components that thread together adjacent the external perimeter, and an internal central locking mechanism that includes a compressing closing section and a receiving opening section (male and female) that can lock the device at a desired location on a fishing line.
Claims15
A spring-free floating device for locking about a fishing line ending axially through the floating device which comprises:
- (i) a first housing component having an outer perimeter with a first internally threaded section and a first compression section spaced apart from the first internally threaded section, and
- (ii) a second housing component having an outer perimeter with an externally threaded section for mating with the first internally threaded section of the outer perimeter of the first housing component, said second housing component also having a second compression section spaced apart from the externally threaded section, said second compression section for mating with the compression section of the first housing component in a watertight manner, said first compression section and said second compression section adapted for engaging with and at least temporarily locking the device about the fishing line extending axially through.
A spring-free floating fishing line bobber comprising:
- (i) a first housing component having an outer perimeter with a first internally threaded section and a first compression section spaced apart from the first internally threaded section,
- (ii) a second housing component having an outer perimeter with an externally threaded section for mating with the first internally threaded section of the first housing component, said second housing component also having a second compression section for mating with the first compression section of the first housing component, said first compression section and said second compression section adapted for engaging with one or more sections of axially extending fishing line to at least temporarily secure the bobber thereto and easily change a location of the bobber along the fishing line;
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- (iii) to render the device watertight, at least one of:
- (a) an O-ring component for between the first housing component and the second housing component;
- and (b) a rubber washer, inside spaced apart regions of the first compression section, spaced apart regions of the second compression section or both spaced apart regions, one or more internal components may be stored, said internal components selected from the group consisting of;
- (i) an electronic element, (ii) a sound emitting element, (iii) a noisemaker and (iv) one or more weight elements.
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