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US 12,568,944 B1Granted
Baiting multi-tool apparatus
OwnerWilliam James Bryant, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A live baiting multi-tool apparatus including a bait capture member configured to isolate various types of live bait, a first storage compartment detachably coupled to the bait capture member and a second storage compartment detachably coupled to the first storage compartment.
Claims13
A live bait baiting apparatus, comprising:
- a funnel member configured to permit an isolation and capture of at least one bait specimen;
- a bait holding compartment configured to receive and hold a single one bait specimen of the at least one bait specimen in a position that permits the single one bait specimen to be attached to a fish hook;
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- a sliding door that permits the single one bait specimen to selectively be transferred from the funnel member into the bait capture compartment.
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A method for baiting a fish hook, the method comprising:
- isolating and capturing at least one bait specimen using a funnel member configured to permit an isolation and capture of one or more bait specimens;
- selectively operating a sliding door separating the funnel member from a bait holding compartment, such that a single bait specimen isolated and captured in the funnel member is transferred into and held in the bait holding compartment, the bait holding compartment having at least one slit opening on opposing lateral surfaces of the bait holding compartment that permits the single bait specimen to be pierced by a fish hook;
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- piercing the single bait specimen with a hook tip of the fish hook through one of the at least one slit openings to thereby attach the single bait specimen to the fish hook.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.