Mount for rigging treble and single-barb fishhooks
OwnerMichael C. Dillardinventor
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Abstract
A mount for rigging a single-barb fishhook or a treble hook which temporarily secures the fishhook for rotation by a motorized drill or similar type of equipment or by hand, where the eye is maintained in a generally fixed spatial location on or near the central axis of the mount during rotation, for attachment of a wire leader to the eye of the fishhook. A bore perpendicular to the rotational axis is provided to retain a single-barb fishhook and a cross member is provided to retain a treble hook. A short segment of the wire lead is threaded through the eye and bent back toward the main body of the wire leader. Both the main body and the short segment of the wire leader are then held in fixed relationship while the mount is rotated.
Claims21
A mount for temporarily holding a fishhook of either single-barb or treble hook structure, wherein said mount and fishhook are adapted to be rotated to attach a wire leader to said fishhook, said fishhook comprising an eye to receive said wire leader, a generally linear shank, either a single curved portion or three curved portions, and either a single barb or three barbs, said mount comprising:
- a shaft adapted to connect said mount to a powered rotating device;
- a generally T-shaped hook receiving body connected to said shaft and comprising an offset arm member, a neck member and a cross member;
- said cross member having a treble hook shank receiving channel and a pair of treble hook curved segment receiving recesses for retaining a treble hook fishhook;
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- a single-barb curved segment receiving bore for retaining a single-barb fishhook.
A mount for rigging a fishhook to a wire leader, wherein said fishhook is either a single-barb fishhook or a treble hook fishhook, wherein said mount is adapted to be connected to a powered hand drill or similar device capable of imparting rotary motion to said mount, said mount comprising:
- a shaft having a central axis;
- a hook receiving body connected to said shaft, said hook receiving body comprising an offset arm member, a neck member, a cross member, and a single-barb curved segment receiving bore;
- said single-barb curved segment receiving bore and said cross member disposed transversely to said central axis, and wherein said single-barb curved segment receiving bore is disposed on the opposite side of said neck member from said cross member;
- said cross member comprising an upper surface and a treble hook shank receiving channel disposed on said upper surface, said treble hook shank receiving channel having a longitudinal axis coaxial with said central axis, and further comprising a pair of treble hook curved segment receiving recesses disposed symmetrically about said neck member;
- whereby a single-barb fishhook comprising an eye, a shank, a curved segment and a barb is retained in said mount by inserting said barb and said curved segment into said single-barb curved segment receiving bore such that said eye is disposed on or near said central axis, and whereby a treble hook fishhook comprising an eye, a shank, three curved segments and three barbs is retained in said mount by placing said treble hook shank in said treble hook shank receiving channel and positioning two of said three treble hook barbs in said pair of treble hook curved segment receiving recesses such that said treble hook eye is disposed on or near said central axis, such that rotation of said mount causes equal rotation of said single-barb fishhook or said treble hook fishhook.
A fishhook rigging mount for connecting a fishhook to a wire leader, said mount comprising:
- a shaft having a central axis, whereby said mount is rotatable about said central axis;
- a hook receiving body comprising means to retain a treble hook fishhook having an eye, a shank, three curved segments and three barbs, said treble hook fishhook retaining means comprising a treble hook shank receiving channel adapted to receive the shank of said treble hook fishhook and a pair of treble hook curved segment receiving recesses adapted to receive two of the three curved segments of said treble hook fishhook;
- said hook receiving body further comprising separate means to retain a single-barb fishhook having an eye, a shank, a curved segment and a barb, said single-barb fishhook retaining means comprising a single-barb curved segment receiving bore adapted to receive the curved segment of said single-barb fishhook;
- whereby said treble hook fishhook eye or said single-barb fishhook eye is disposed on or adjacent said central axis during rotation of said mount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.