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US 6,145,240 AGranted
Fishing sinker
AssigneeLindy Little Joe, Inc.
InventorsNicholas S. Adams, Ronald J. Lindner
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Abstract
A unitary fishing sinker having a body with a buoyant portion having a density less than water and a weighted portion with a density greater than water. A further feature of the invention includes an elongated sinker body formed on a central wire with a line connection member at one end and a distal end extending outwardly from the body. The invention also relates to a method of making the above sinker.
Claims13
A unitary fishing sinker comprising:
- a body having a connection end with a fishing line connection member and an opposite free end wherein said body comprises a weighted portion having a density greater than the density of water and a buoyant portion comprised substantially of a solid buoyant material having a density less than that of water, and said weighted portion includes a first weighted portion adjacent to said connection end and a second weighted portion adjacent to said free end with said buoyant portion positioned between said first and second weighted portions.
A unitary fishing sinker comprising:
- a body having a fishing line connection member wherein said body comprises a weighted portion having a density greater than the density of water and a buoyant portion having a density less than that of water, wherein said body includes a center axis extending from said connection to said free end, a length dimension measured from said connection end to said free end along said center axis, a width dimension measured in a direction generally perpendicular to said center axis and at a point midway between said connection end and said free end and wherein said length dimension is at least three times greater than said width dimension, said sinker including a wire extending through a portion of said body and outwardly from said free end and wherein the portion of said wire extending outwardly from said free end includes a distal end and said fish sinker further includes a bead connected to said distal end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.