US 5,690,370 AGranted

Fisherman's knot tying device

AssigneeOutdoor Scientific, Inc.

InventorWilliam F. Steck, III

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Abstract

A hand-held hot-tying device used for forming fishermen's knots, such as blood knots, which are used to tie two fishing lines segments together. The device is flat with a base from which three spaced-apart legs extend at right angles. The device may be formed from an assembly consisting of congruent plates which are fastened together adjacently. The adjacent spaced-apart legs of the assembly provide three sets of two nips into which the fishing line is wedged and held fast. The top portion of each nip is tapered so as to facilitate insertion of the fishing line segments. While one free end of line to be joined remains held fast, the free end of the other is manipulated on the device and then clamped to the center legs. Then the free end of the other line to be joined is likewise manipulated and clamped to the center legs. Following both aforesaid line manipulations, the preliminary knot loop formed by the manipulations is manually lifted above the center legs of the plates and the lines are pulled tight to form a completed knot.

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Dependent claims

A device for tying together separate segments of monofilament or similarly fine line with a fisherman's knot such as a blood knot, said device comprising:

a) two like configured outer plates, each of said outer plates including a basal part, two end leg parts extending from said basal part at fight angles thereto, and one medial leg part extending from said basal part at right angles thereto;
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b) an inner plate sandwiched between said outer plates, said inner plate having a basal portion interposed between the basal parts of said outer plates, and said inner plate having two end leg portions and one medial leg portion extending from said basal portion at right angles thereto and being sandwiched between said leg parts of said outer plates, said inner plate leg portions combining with said outer plate leg parts to form spaced-apart clamps for clamping one of the separate segments of line between the end leg parts of one outer plate and the end leg portions on one side of the inner plate and for clamping the other segment of line between the end leg parts of the other outer plate and the end leg portions of the opposite side of the inner plate, and said medial leg parts of said outer plates combining with said medial leg portions of said inner plate to clamp free ends of the line segments during the formation of a knot.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.