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US 7,406,797 B2Granted
Super high floating line
AssigneeRio Products Intl., Inc.
InventorsJohn Harder, Marlin Roush, John Schultz, Timothy Moon
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Abstract
Fly fishing lines and methods for manufacturing fly fishing lines entail the use of polymer microspheres within the fly line coating to produce lines with very low specific gravities. The fly lines have single or multiple coatings. In fly lines having multiple coatings, the inner coating includes polymer microspheres and the outer coating include either polymer microspheres or glass microspheres.
Claims4
A fishing line, comprising:
- a core;
- a first coating disposed around the core, the first coating having a plurality of polymer microspheres;
- and
- a second coating disposed around the first coating,
- the core including first and second core portions, the first coating disposed around both the first and second core portions, the second coating disposed around that portion of the first coating that is disposed around the first core portion;
- the fishing line including a third coating disposed around that portion of the first coating that is disposed around the second core portion, the second and third coatings having microspheres made of different materials.
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A fishing line comprising:
- a core;
- a first coating disposed around the core, the first coating having a plurality of polymer Microspheres;
- and
- a second coating disposed around the first coating, the second coating being a PVC plastisol, and
- the fishing line has a slickness corresponding to, as measured using a tensile tester with a 10 kilogram load cell, less than 0.3 pounds of force required to pull a .05 inch diameter fishing line having a 0.123 pound attached weight over a 7 inch diameter chrome plate wheel at a rate of 10 inches per minute, the line having a surface contact length of 22 inches to the wheel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.