Fishing line retaining device
OwnerWallace W. Williams, IIinventor
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Abstract
A one piece device for temporarily holding fly fishing line stripped from a reel and prior to being cast. The device is made from a single piece of continuous metal rod, bent at various locations along the rod to form a holding arm and a base clip. The fishing line is hung in coils from the holding arm. The clip may be attached to clothing, thereby securing the device on or about an angler, so that when a cast is made, the line uncoils from the arm.
Claims17
A one piece fishing line retaining device for holding stripped fishing line when a person is fly-casting, comprising:
- a clip for being secured to clothing of the person;
- and
- an elongated arm for holding the fishing line and extending away from the clip;
- wherein the clip and arm are formed from a single piece of continuous rod having bends at locations along the rod, the rod being bent at a first location midway between its ends to form the arm with two arm members, with the arm members joined by the bend at the first location to provide an endpoint of the arm;
- wherein the rod is bent at locations away from the first location to form the clip, including a bend at a second location joining the arm to the clip and forming a first clip member that is generally perpendicular to the arm, and a bend at a third location away from the second location joining the first clip member to a second clip member;
- wherein the arm is substantially straight along the length of the arm between the first location and the second location, so that the arm, the first location, and the second location lie in the same plane;
- and
- wherein the first and second clip members are generally parallel to each other and are joined at the bend at the third location in order to define a dosed end of the dip and are spaced apart away from the bend at the third location in order to define an open end of the clip, so that the clothing may be passed between the clip members at the open end of the clip to thereby secure the clip to the clothing.
A method for producing a device for holding an article, wherein the device may be secured to an article of clothing or the like, the method comprising:
- providing a single length of a bendable rod;
- bending the rod at a first point along its length to form an elongated arm for use in holding the article, the elongated arm having two generally parallel arm members that are joined at the first point to form the end of the arm;
- and
- bending the rod at one or more second points away from the first point to form a clip for attachment to the article of clothing, the clip having first and second parallel clip members that are joined at a bend at a third point to form a first, closed end of the clip and that are spaced apart away from the closed end to form a second, open end of the clip, so that the article of clothing may be placed between the first and second clip members through the open end of the clip to thereby secure the device to the article of clothing;
- wherein the arm is substantially straight along the length of the arm between the first point and the second point, so that the arm, the first point, and the second point lie in the same plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.