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US 5,625,976 AGranted
Fly lines
AssigneeFlow Tek, Inc.
InventorRobert H. Goodale
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Abstract
Improved fishing lines, and specifically fly lines, and methods of manufacture and use thereof are disclosed. The line includes a core line portion and a coating portion, the coating including a copolymer of olefin and acrylic material, the olefin preferably being ethylene. The lines provided include a clear floating fly line having a nylon core and ethylene acrylic acid copolymer coating.
Claims17
A floating fly fishing line comprising:
- a core line portion of a first material;
- and
- a coating over said core line portion made of a second material different from said first material and including a copolymer of olefin and acrylic material and having a specific gravity of less than 1, said first and second materials having sufficiently similar indices of refraction selected so that the fly fishing line is substantially transparent absent addition of pigment to said first or second material.
A floating fishing line comprising:
- a core line made of material having a specific gravity grater than 1;
- and
- a coating over said core line including a copolymer of ethylene and acrylic material and having a specific gravity of less than 1, said coating of sufficient thickness over said core line to provide a finished fishing line having a specific gravity of less than 1.
A floating fly fishing line comprising:
- a monofilament nylon core line portion having a specific gravity greater than 1;
- and
- a coating over said core line portion including a copolymer of olefin and an acrylic acid material and having a specific gravity of less than 1, said core line portion and said coating having sufficiently similar indices of refraction selected so that the floating fly fishing line is substantially transparent absent addition of pigments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.