US 9,433,198 B2Granted

Fishing line knotter

OwnerRonald L. O'Nealinventor

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Abstract

A tool for making the task of tying a hook or bait onto a fishing line using one hand. The device includes a magnet to hold the hook or bait, holders for an end of the line on either side of the hook, a cutter for cutting the line, a housing neck around which to wrap the line and a sliding line puller which pulls the line back through the wraps.

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A knot tying tool comprising:

a longitudinal housing including a proximal handle, a distal forked end, a first neck with a first selected diameter located distally of said handle, a second neck with a smaller second selected diameter, a third neck with a still smaller selected diameter, a sliding line puller which slides longitudinally within a first slot in said first neck and said second neck;
said first neck having a diameter of about five-eights of an inch, said second neck having a diameter of about one half of an inch, and said third neck having an oval in cross-section and having a minor width of about one quarter of an inch;
said forked end comprising four tines grouped in two rows of two tines each, said forked ends opening toward a distal end of said knot tying tool, said forked ends having a magnet at a center of the junction of said four tines,
said knot tying tool having a second longitudinal slot formed in a top surface thereof beginning at a distal end of said proximal handle, said second slot having a thumb button cooperatively and slidably engaged within, said thumb button having a downward extending shaft cooperatively engaging said sliding line puller;
said sliding line puller being horizontally longitudinal and having a hook located at a proximal end thereof, said hook having a free end extending upwardly and then proximally and sized for hooking and pulling a fishing line, said hook having a vertical height just less than a vertical depth of said first slot, said sliding line puller having at least two lateral parallel horizontally spaced apart lugs, said spaced apart lugs having a horizontal channel formed there between, said knot tying tool having a guide rail formed within, said guide rail having a horizontal planar portion which then declines at a proximal end thereof, said horizontal channel cooperatively engaging an edge of said guide rail;
said horizontal channel on said sliding line puller sliding along said guide rail causing said hook to slide within said first slot, said hook extending distally outside of said second neck when said thumb button is pushed to a distal end of said second slot, said hook raising out of said first slot at a proximal end of said first slot when said thumb button is pulled to a proximal end of said second slot, due to said channel following said decline of said guide rail.

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Abstract

A knot tying tool comprising:

a longitudinal housing including a proximal handle, a distal forked end, a first neck with a first selected diameter located distally of said handle, a second neck with a smaller second selected diameter, a third neck with a still smaller selected diameter, a sliding line puller which slides longitudinally within a first slot in said first neck and said second neck;
said first neck having a diameter of about five-eights of an inch, said second neck having a diameter of about one half of an inch, and said third neck having an oval in cross-section and having a minor width of about one quarter of an inch;
said forked end comprising four tines grouped in two rows of two tines each, said forked ends opening toward a distal end of said knot tying tool, said forked ends having a magnet at a center of the junction of said four tines,
said knot tying tool having a second longitudinal slot formed in a top surface thereof beginning at a distal end of said proximal handle, said second slot having a thumb button cooperatively and slidably engaged within, said thumb button having a downward extending shaft cooperatively engaging said sliding line puller;
said sliding line puller being horizontally longitudinal and having a hook located at a proximal end thereof, said hook having a free end extending upwardly and then proximally and sized for hooking and pulling a fishing line, said hook having a vertical height just less than a vertical depth of said first slot, said sliding line puller having at least two lateral parallel horizontally spaced apart lugs, said spaced apart lugs having a horizontal channel formed there between, said knot tying tool having a guide rail formed within, said guide rail having a horizontal planar portion which then declines at a proximal end thereof, said horizontal channel cooperatively engaging an edge of said guide rail;
said horizontal channel on said sliding line puller sliding along said guide rail causing said hook to slide within said first slot, said hook extending distally outside of said second neck when said thumb button is pushed to a distal end of said second slot, said hook raising out of said first slot at a proximal end of said first slot when said thumb button is pulled to a proximal end of said second slot, due to said channel following said decline of said guide rail.

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