Fish stringer handle
OwnerCharles R. Day, G. Wayne Perrininventors
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Abstract
A fish-stringer handle has a D-shape with a channel around it for winding string to be unwound as needed for stringing fish. Finger grooves at an inside periphery of a leg of the D-shape provide comfortable handling. A needle orifice is provided for attaching the string with a fish-stringer needle. Wood or other light and floatable material can be used for construction. A string keeper can be attached to keep the string in the middle of the handle for distributing weight of fish on a string evenly across a hand of a user.
Claims17
A fish-stringer handle having:
- a D-shaped handle sized and shaped to be held with a hand at a leg of a D-shape of the D-shaped handle;
- a channel around an outside periphery of the D-shape sized to contain a select plurality of windings of fish-stringer string;
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- a needle orifice in a bottom of the channel sized and shaped to contain a fish-stringer needle at a select position in the D-shaped handle with a select portion of the fish-stringer needle projecting into and through the channel.
A method for using a fish-stringer handle having:
- a D-shaped handle sized and shaped to be held with a hand at a leg of a D-shape of the D-shaped handle;
- a channel around an outside periphery of the D-shape sized to contain a select plurality of windings of fish-stringer string;
- a needle orifice in a bottom of the channel sized and shaped to contain a fish-stringer needle at a select position in the D-shaped handle with a select portion of the fish-stringer needle projecting into and through the channel;
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- a fish string having a fish-stringer needle at one end and a fish-container means at an opposite end;
- the method comprising the following steps:
- (A) positioning the fish-stringer needle in the needle orifice;
- B) winding the fish string attached to the fish-stringer needle around the outside periphery of the fish-stringer handle in the channel at least one wind;
- (C) looping the fish string at least one wind around the portion of the fish-stringer needle projecting from the needle orifice in the channel;
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- (D) suspending the fish string with the fish-container means in a select direction downwardly from the fish-stringer needle.
A method for using a fish-stringer handle having:
- a D-shaped handle sized and shaped to be held with a hand at a leg of a D-shape of the D-shaped handle;
- a channel around an outside periphery of the D-shape sized to contain a select plurality of windings of fish-stringer string;
- a needle orifice in a bottom of the channel sized and shaped to contain a fish-stringer needle at a select position in the D-shaped handle with a select portion of the fish-stringer needle projecting into and through the channel;
- a string-keeper base on the curve of the D-shape of the D-shaped handle;
- a string-keeper appendage extended from the string-keeper base a select distance outwardly from the channel;
- a string keeper extended from the string-keeper appendage perpendicularly to an axis of the channel proximate midway between opposite ends of the leg of the D-shaped handle such that weight of fish on a distal end of a string wound on the fish-stringer handle and resting on the string keeper is supportable perpendicularly from a central portion of the leg of the D-shape of the D-shaped handle;
- the D-shape of the D-shaped fish-stringer handle being sufficiently large in proportion to material with which it is constructed for containing the string-keeper base and for supporting desired weight on the string keeper;
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- a fish string having a fish-stringer needle at one end and a fish-container means at an opposite end;
- the method comprising the following steps:
- (A) positioning the fish-stringer needle in the needle orifice;
- (B) winding the fish string attached to the fish-stringer needle around the outside periphery of the fish-stringer handle in the channel at least one wind;
- (C) looping the fish string at least one wind around the portion of the fish-stringer needle projecting from the needle orifice in the channel;
- (D) winding the fish string further around the fish-stringer handle in the channel to the string-keeper base;
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- (E) suspending the fish string with the fish-container means downwardly from the string keeper in a direction perpendicular to the leg of the D-shape of the D-shaped fish-stringer handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.