Bobber for hiding or shielding a hook
AssigneePure Fishing, Inc.
InventorsJoaquim Da Rosa, Casey Davidson
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Abstract
A bobber, including a buoyant body having a cavity at a first end connected with a passageway through the bobber, and a first shielding structure extending from the body at the first end and at least partially surrounding said cavity. When gravity and/or acceleration forces cause the bobber to slide down the fishing line, the diameter or cross-sectional dimension of the bobber body is sufficiently greater than the diameter or size of the first shielding structure to shield or hide the barbed tip of a fishing hook when a portion of the hook is disposed in the bobber cavity and the tip is disposed outside of the first shielding structure.
Claims19
A bobber, comprising:
- a buoyant body having a cavity at a first end connected with a through hole;
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- a first structure extending from the body at the first end and at least partially surrounding an opening of the cavity;
- wherein a perimeter of the body is sufficiently greater than a perimeter of the first structure to prevent unintended contact with a tip of a fishing hook when the hook is disposed in the cavity and the tip is disposed outside of the first structure.
A bobber, comprising:
- a buoyant body having a through bore, a portion of the through bore at a distal end of the body being enlarged to form a cavity;
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- a first structure extending distally from the distal end of the body and at least partially surrounding a distal end of the cavity;
- wherein during casting or retrieval of a fishing hook connected to a distal end of a line passing through the through bore, the hook is positionable in a first position with the hook and its tip disposed within the cavity and a second position with the hook disposed within the cavity and its tip disposed outside of the first structure;
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- wherein at a position on the body proximal to the first structure, the perimeter of the body is sufficiently greater than a perimeter of the first structure to prevent unintended contact with the hook tip when the hook disposed in the second position.
A bobber, comprising:
- a buoyant body having a through bore along an axis, a portion of the through bore being enlarged to form a cavity;
- a first wall disposed on an end of the body and at least partially surrounding an exposed end of the cavity;
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- a second wall extending from the end of the body, disposed within the first wall, and at least partially surrounding the opening of the cavity, wherein a hook is positionable within the cavity with its tip disposed between the first and second walls
- wherein a greatest external dimension of the body substantially perpendicular to the axis is substantially greater than a greatest external dimension of the wall substantially perpendicular to the axis, to prevent unintended contact with the tip of the fishing hook when the hook is disposed in the cavity and the tip is disposed outside of the first wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.