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US 6,647,659 B1Granted
Fishing lure
AssigneeTrinity Takle Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAlan King, Mark Thornton
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Abstract
A fishing lure has a hollow body that contains a battery and a selected recipient device (eg. a light emitting device, horn, vibrator motor). A switch interrupts a circuit to deactivate the light emitting device (or other recipient device) when the lure body is moved from a generally horizontal, “swimming” position to a more inclined position. The apparatus has a rechargeable battery that can be charged by connecting to hook eyelets on the lure body.
Claims15
A fishing lure, comprising:
- a) a lure body that simulates a swimming aquatic animal when the lure is pulled through the water in an upright swimming position;
- b) the lure body having a light emitting device that illuminates at least a portion of the body;
- c) a battery and circuit for selectively powering the light emitting device;
- d) a recharging circuit for selectively connecting the battery to a recharger;
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- e) a switch for alternatively interconnecting the battery and light emitting device and the battery and recharging circuit that activates the light to be on when the lure is in the upright swimming position and deactivates the light emitting device and connects the battery to the recharging circuit when the lure body is reoriented so that it is not in the upright swimming position.
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A fishing lure, comprising:
- a) a lure body that simulates a swimming aquatic animal when the lure is pulled through the water in an upright swimming position;
- b) the body having a light emitting device that illuminates at least a portion of the body;
- c) a battery circuit that includes a battery and the light emitting device;
- d) a battery recharging circuit including the battery and adapted to be connected to a battery charger;
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- e) switch means in the battery circuit for disconnecting the light emitting device and connecting the battery recharging circuit when the lure is not in the upright swimming position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.