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US 8,209,899 B2Granted
Flyline connecting device
OwnerArnold Gregory Kleininventor
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The invention provides a convenient, lightweight and streamlined connecting device for attaching a leader or tippet to a fly-fishing line. The Fly Line Connecting Device is configured with an expandable tubular lattice that allows for an in-line connection to the fly line. The connection device has an integral tubular lattice sized with an internal diameter that is slightly smaller that the fly line and when compressively displaced, operates to expand the internal diameter to allow insertion of the fly line. Once the fly line is fully inserted, the tubular lattice is allowed to contract and elastically constrict onto and thereby grip the semi-resilient surface of the fly line. When the fly line and leader line are placed in tension through the connecting device, the tubular lattice acts to constrict down on the fly-line to resist separation. The connecting device of the invention is configured with a loop, eyelet, knot-trapping feature, or short tippet to allow for the convenient attachment of the leader line. Alternatively, the connecting device is permanently attached or integrally formed with a full-length leader. The preferred embodiment of the connecting device is injection molded in an intermediate form that is configured to be manually or machine cold-drawn to the final working dimensions and optimal physical properties.
A connector in combination with a fly line, the connector including at one end thereof a welded, cemented, or integrally molded leader line, and an opposite end of the connector having an elongate, flexible, unitary structured, non-woven tubular lattice, said tubular lattice having a functional geometry that when subjected to axial compression operates to expand an internal dimension of the tubular lattice to allow insertion of the fly line, and when released from axial compression, contracts down to make elastic contact with, and thereby to grip the fly line, and wherein said connector tubular lattice acts to further constrict and hold secure the fly line when said leader line and fly line are subjected to tensile forces passing through the connector as may be encountered when fly fishing.
A connector in combination with a fly line and a leader line, the connector including at one end thereof a knot trap, loop, eyelet, or a short integrally formed tippet line for connection to the leader line, and an opposite end of the connector having an elongate, flexible, unitary structured, non-woven tubular lattice, said tubular lattice having a functional geometry that when subjected to axial compression operates to expand an internal dimension of the tubular lattice to allow insertion of the fly line, and when released from axial compression, contracts down to make elastic contact with, and thereby to grip the fly line, and wherein said connector tubular lattice acts to further constrict and hold secure the fly line when the leader line and fly line are subjected to tensile forces passing through the connector as may be encountered when fly fishing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.