# US 2016/0121476 A1 · Grip for generally rod shaped objects > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2016/0121476 A1 - Document ID: US20160121476A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/887,815 - Filed: 2015-10-20 - Published: 2016-05-05 - Earliest claimed: 2014-10-30 - Assignees: Techgrip, LLC - Inventors: Aaron Techlin - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20160121476A1 ## CPC - B25G 1/102: {the shape being specially adapted to facilitate handling or improve grip} - A01K 87/08: Handgrips - A01K 87/085: {Heating devices or other means to protect against the cold} - B05C 17/0205: {characterised by the handle, e.g. handle shape or material (B05C17/0217, B05C17/022 take precedence)} - B25G 3/00: Attaching handles to the implements - B25G 3/26: comprising nails, screws, bolts, or pins traversing or entering the socket - B25G: HANDLES FOR HAND IMPLEMENTS (attaching the blades or the like to handles of hand tools for soil working A01B1/22; handles of hand implements for harvesting A01D1/14; handles integral with brushware A46B) - A01K: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS - B05C: APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (spraying apparatus, atomising apparatus, nozzles B05B; plant for applying liquids or other fluent materials to objects by electrostatic spraying B05B5/08) ## Abstract A detachable grip is provided with bracket system that can be removably attached to a desired location along the length of a fishing rod, and that has a removable grip which attaches to the bracket. More particularly, in one embodiment the bracket girdles the fishing rod using bolts to fasten a top half of the bracket to the bottom half of the bracket. In one or more embodiments, the grip attaches to the bracket and extends in a direction away from the bracket that is substantially in a direction perpendicular to the rod. In one embodiment, the grip is attached to the bracket by a bolt, and is adapted to allow the grip to be readily detached. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A grip for generally rod shaped objects comprising: a grip having a top and a bottom, the top of the grip adapted to receive a bolt; a bolt having a first end and a second end; a top half of a bracket having a substantially concave form defining a first interior area substantially in the shape of a half-cylinder; a bottom half of a bracket having a substantially concave form defining a second interior area substantially in the shape of a half-cylinder; wherein the top half and the bottom half are reversibly mated, the flat part of the first interior area junctioning with the flat part of the second interior area to form a single interior area substantially in the shape of a cylinder; wherein the top of the grip is reversibly mated with a first end of a bolt and either the top half or the bottom half are reversibly mated with the second end of said bolt. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 1, wherein the top half defines one or more individual through-holes and the bottom half defines one or more individual receptor holes, the one or more individual through-holes being aligned with the one or more individual receptor holes; wherein the one or more receptor holes are adapted to receive one or more bolts having a head region and a threaded region; wherein the top half and the bottom half are reversibly held in the mated position by one or more individual bolts that pass through the one or more individual through-holes and the threaded region substantially received by the one or more individual receptor holes. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 2, wherein the top half defines individual through-holes that are low-relief, such that the head of the one or more bolts are below the upper surface of the top half when the top half and bottom half are mated by the one or more bolts. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 3, further comprising a flexible material attached to the concave side of the top half and the bottom half. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 4, further comprising a clasp enhancing material attached to the outer surface of the grip. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 5, further comprising support beams attached to each of the top half, the bottom half, and the grip. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 6, wherein the grip is substantially frustoconical in shape. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 7, wherein the grip defines an interior hollow space. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 8, wherein the top half, the bottom half, and the grip are plastic. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 9, wherein the dimensions of the top half and bottom half are adapted to girdle a fishing rod. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 10, wherein the grip is adapted to receive a heating element and power supply. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 10, wherein the grip is adapted to receive a cooling element and power supply. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 10, wherein the grip is adapted to receive a packet of chemicals for an exothermic reaction. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 10, wherein the grip is adapted to receive a packet of chemicals for an endothermic reaction. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 1, wherein the top half and bottom half are permanently mated and permanently affixed to a substantially rod shaped portion of an object. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 9, wherein the dimensions of the top half and bottom half are adapted to girdle the substantially rod-shaped portion of an object selected from the group consisting of brooms, shovels, rakes, hoes, tampers, picks, axes, crowbars, prybars, tree pruners, fruit pickers, sidewalk scrapers, post-hole diggers, pole saws, sickles, grass hooks, pitch forks, garden tillers, ground aerators, and root irrigators. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 1, wherein the dimensions of the top half and bottom half are adapted to girdling the barrel or forestock of a rifle. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 1, wherein the dimensions of the top half and bottom half are adapted to girdle a paint roller extension pole. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 1, wherein the top half and bottom half are held together by an adhesive. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The grip for generally rod shaped objects of claim 1, wherein the handle can be removed manually by unscrewing the grip and bolt from the bottom half.