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US 4,382,346 AGranted
Fish hook setting device
OwnerFrank N. Gardnerinventor
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Abstract
Fish hook setting apparatus adapted to be mounted on a fishing pole to grip fishing line and to automatically pull sharply on the line when a fish seizes the hook and thus tugs the line, thereby setting or embedding the fish hook in the mouth of the fish.
Claims5
A fish hook setting device, comprising:
- carriage means;
- guideway means for constraining the motion of said carriage means to a predetermined path;
- mounting means for so mounting said guideway means on a fishing pole that said path is substantially parallel to said fishing pole;
- knockoff cam means located on said guideway means near the inner end of said path, which is the end thereof nearer to a handle of said fishing pole when said guideway means is mounted on said fishing pole;
- detent means located near the outer end of said path providing a fixed stop means;
- gripping means mounted on said carriage means for unidirectionally releasably gripping a fishing line carried on a winding reel and passing through eyes of said fishing pole, said gripping means comprising pivoted lever means for jamming said line against said fixed stop means, said lever means being so inclined as to permit the reeling in of said line but to prevent the paying out of said line except when deflected by said knockoff cam means;
- detent engaging means on said carriage means for engaging said detent means and being disengaged therefrom when said fishing line is pulled in a direction away from said handle;
- elastic means comprising at least one elongated strand of elastic material for propelling said carriage along said path when said detent engaging means is disengaged from said detent means;
- first attaching means for attaching said elastic means to said carriage means;
- and
- second attaching means for attaching said elastic means to said guideway means near said inner end of said path.
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A fish hook setting device, comprising:
- carriage means;
- guideway means for constraining the motion of said carriage means to a predetermined path;
- mounting means for so mounting said guideway means on a fishing pole that said path is substantially parallel to said fishing pole;
- knockoff cam means located on said guideway means near an inner end of said path, which is the end thereof nearer to the handle of said fishing pole when said guideway means is mounted on said fishing pole;
- detent means located near the outer end of said path;
- gripping means mounted on said carriage means for releasably gripping a fishing line carried on a winding reel and passing through eyes of said fishing pole, said gripping means comprising cam engaging means for engaging said knockoff cam means and being deflected thereby, thus causing the release of said fishing line by said gripping means when said carriage means approaches the inner end of said guideway means;
- detent engaging means on said carriage means for engaging said detent means and being disengaged therefrom when said fishing line is pulled in a direction away from said handle;
- elastic means comprising at least one elongated strand of elastic material for propelling said carriage along said path when said detent engaging means is disengaged from said detent means;
- first attaching means for attaching said elastic means to said carriage means;
- and
- second attaching means for attaching said elastic means to said guideway means near said inner end of said path;
- having means for adjusting the tension of said at least one strand of elastic material being adjustable, and the fish hook setting force is thus being adjustable, said tension being adjusted by means of said second attaching means, an anchoring means forming a drum on which said at least one strand of elastic material can be wound when said anchoring means is rotated about an axis, and said anchoring means further comprising means by which said anchoring means can be maintained in a plurality of positions in each one of which the tension of the fully extended elastic material has a different corresponding value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.