Fly fishing line
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorJohn E. Stark
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Abstract
A fishing line with an outer coating such as a poly(vinyl chloride) resin that includes a polymerized polyfunctional acrylic monomer, the line exhibiting a combination of improvement in durability, shootability and recoil memory.
Claims9
A fly line comprising a core, and a coating adherably bonded to said core, said coating comprising a polyvinyl chloride resin, an in situ formed polymer to provide increased stiffness to said line, said polymer being derived from at least one polymerizable monomer including a polyfunctional acrylic monomer, and an initiator for polymerizing said acrylic monomer.
A method of making a fly line comprising:
- (a) coating a fly line core with a plastisol comprising:
- (1) a polyvinyl chloride resin,
- (2) a polyfunctional polymerizable acrylate monomer, and
- (3) an initiator for a polymerization reaction including said acrylate monomer, and
- (3) an initiator for a polymerization reaction including said acrylate monomer, and
- (b) exposing said plastisol to conditions providing formation of a polymer derived from said acrylate monomer to provide increased stiffness to said line whereby a fly line is produced having improved durability, shootability and low recoil memory.
A fly line comprising a nylon core, a primer, and a coating overlying said primer and adherably bonded to said core, said coating comprising a fused poly(vinyl chloride) resin, from about 3 parts by weight to about 10 parts by weight per 100 parts poly(vinyl chloride) resin of a polymeric plasticizer in the form of a homopolymer derived from trimethylol propane trimethacrylate polymerizable monomer, and an initiating amount of an initiator for said polymerizable monomer.
A method for providing a fly line with an improved combination of durability, shootability, and recoil memory, said fly line including a core and a coating applied thereto, said method comprising incorporating in said coating an in situ formed polymer derived from a polyfunctional polymerizable acrylic monomer in the presence of an initiator for said polymerizable monomer to provide increased stiffness to said line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.