Safety sinker
OwnerChen-Ju Lininventor
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Abstract
A safety sinker includes a sinker connected to a fish line through a sinker coupler, wherein the sinker coupler may be pulled, by means of a fish line, to disconnect the sinker from the fish line when the sinker is squeezed in between rocks or somethings during fishing. The sinker coupler includes a fork end having two semi-sphere members made thereon for connecting the sinker when they are squeezed to form into a spherical configuration and inserted into the inner chamber of the sinker. The two semi-sphere members may be squeezed to form into a spherical configuration again, by means of a pull force through the fish line, so as to slip away from the sinker and to disconnect the fish line from the sinker.
Claims1
A safety sinker, including
- a sinker coupler unitarily made of resilient plastic material through shape molding process and generally comprised of a retaining ring portion having a gap made thereon for insertion therethrough of a fish line into the inner space thereof, a neck portion extending downward from said retaining ring portion, a fork end portion extending from said neck portion, and two opposite semi-sphere members made on the two terminals of said fork end portion, a sinker comprising an opening, and an inner chamber communicating with said opening;
- characterized in that said two semi-sphere members of said sinker coupler are spaced away from each other, after having been incorporated into a spherical configuration and inserted into said inner chamber of said sinker through said opening, to firmly connect said sinker to a fish line, and said two semi-sphere members may be squeezed to close together to form into a spherical configuration so as to disconnect from said sinker when a pull force is applied thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.