Tommaso's De-Hooker
OwnerGaspare Joseph Tommasoinventor
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Abstract
Tommaso's De-Hooker is a device designed to remove a fishhook swallowed by a fish as humanely as possible so as not to unduly injure the fish. The function of the De-Hooker is to dislodge the hook from the fish using only one hand. This frees the other hand to hold the fish, or for whatever purpose the fisherman wants to use it.
Claims8
A rod with four rectangular sides, or any rod ending in the form of a chisel as shown in drawing (FIG. 2).
The T shaped part (FIG. 3) has one or more hook projections (FIG. 3, 5A and 5B) so that one of the hook like projection (FIG. 6, 5B) can go through the loop (FIG. 5, 8 and FIG. 6,8) in the leader fishing line (FIG. 6, 5B).
The Hook like projections are installed in the T shaped part (FIG. 3, 5A-5B) at a location which makes the leader (FIG. 5,8 and FIG. 6,8) taught and the hook press against the chisel part of the rod, when the rod is pressed down using the pressure from the thumb.
The T shaped part is pressed in the opposite (FIG. 6, 12-13-14) directions resulting from the pressure applied by the thumb and fingers, causing the leader to became taught, and causing the hook to be pressed against the chisel part of the rod (FIG. 6,3).
The hooks (FIG. 3, 5A-5B) can consist of flat headed steel screws screwed into the T (FIG. 3) making between a 45 to 20 degree angle with the side of the T shaped part leading to the top of the T shaped part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.