CA1066891A - Fishing lure retriever - Google Patents
Fishing lure retrieverInfo
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
The invention is a fishing lure retriever which slides down a fishing line to the lure at the bottom of the line fouled on the bottom of the body of water, the lure retriever having a non-buoyant tubular wall with a slot therein to pass the fishing line therethrough, and means in the body to prevent the line from exiting the body through the slot so that the body securely slides down the fishing line to the lure at the bottom, therebeing a plurality of swivel-mounted hooks at the bottom of said body, these hooks having deflector elements attached thereto so that the hooks fan outwardly on their swivels as the retriever passes through the water, thus causing the hooks to be positioned around the lure when the retriever reaches same, therebeing a strong tether line attached to the tubular body to pull the retriever free together with its captured lure.
The invention is a fishing lure retriever which slides down a fishing line to the lure at the bottom of the line fouled on the bottom of the body of water, the lure retriever having a non-buoyant tubular wall with a slot therein to pass the fishing line therethrough, and means in the body to prevent the line from exiting the body through the slot so that the body securely slides down the fishing line to the lure at the bottom, therebeing a plurality of swivel-mounted hooks at the bottom of said body, these hooks having deflector elements attached thereto so that the hooks fan outwardly on their swivels as the retriever passes through the water, thus causing the hooks to be positioned around the lure when the retriever reaches same, therebeing a strong tether line attached to the tubular body to pull the retriever free together with its captured lure.
Description
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Background of the Invention The invention is in the field of sports fishing, and particularly relates to snagged fishing lure retrievers.
It is a common experience among sports fishermen to have a lure become snagged in weeds or rocks in the murky depths beyond visibility, and seasoned fi.shermen are well aware that retrieval of the lure by increased tension on the lightweight fishing line will frequently result in.the loss of the lure forevèr when the line snaps. Often this will be the fisherman's favorite lure, and as good fishing lures are fairly expensive, lure loss adds considerably to the cost of fishing, not to mention the frustration.
Although lure retrieving devices have been designed in the past to overcome this problem, commonly, these units are slid down the fishing line and are either battered against the lure by reciprocating a cord attached to the retriever in an effort to dislodge the lure, or the retriever may be provided with a mechanism for gripping either the fishing line :~ : itself near the lure, the lureleader, or the seivel attachment to the lurè, but in any event, the.lure itself is not engaged ~ by the retriever and the swivel attachment and leader are sub-: ~ ject to snapping~just~as is the fis~ing line itself if the lure :: ~ is firmly snagged.
Summary of_the Invention ~2~5 ~ : ~ The lure retriever o~ the present invention solves :the above-me~tioned problems and comprises a non-buoyant tube hav:ing a slot in the side thereof to which a fishing line attached .
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to a snagged lure may be passed, there being one oE several means within the tube to retain the line and prevent its escape through the slot. The top end of the tube is at-tached to a strong cord which is operated by a Eisherman, and a pair of swivel-mounted grappline hooks are mounted to the bottom of the tube. The hooks are prefexably provided with a planar deflector to deflect the hooks outwardly as t.he tube is lowered through the water so that when the tube encounters the lure, at least a portion of the lureenters the tube clear of the hooks, and the hooks then fall into place to engage the hooks on the lure or other parts thereof.
Brief Description of the Drawings .
Figure 1 illustrates the lure retriever in use showing the lure partially entered into the retriever with the grappling hooks engaging the lure;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the retriever:
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Figure 3 is an end elevation view of a Velcro* fastener attachment wherein the two strips are fastened together along one edge;
Figure 4 is a perspective view of an alternative line retainer;
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Figure 6 is a perspective view of a further line 25 ~ retainer, : ~ .
Figure 7 is an end elevational view of the structure o~`Figure 6;
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Figure 8 is a perspective view of a retriever hody with line retaining end caps;
Figures 9 - 13 are end elevational views of alter-native line re~ainer arrangements;
Figure 14 is a perspective view of an alternatlve unit made from a single piece of sheet material;
Figure 15 is a top plan view of the structure of Figure 14;
Figure 16 is a perspective view of a further configuration;
Figure 17 is a top plan view of the structure o Figure 16;
E`igure 18 is a perspective view of a unit with a clip-on retainer;
lS Figure l9 is a perspective view of a unit with a wire clip retainer; and Fiqure 20 is a section taken along lines 20 - 20 of Figure 18;
Figure 21 is an alternative embodiment of the device ~ utilizing a channel line retainer and an auxiliary weight;
Figure 22 i.s a sectional view taken along lines 22 -22 of Figure 21;
Figure 23 is a sectional view taken along lines 23 -23 of Flgure 22.
~25 The best overall view of the inv~ntion i5 illustrated in Figure 2I which shows the hollow tubular body lO of the lure retriever, which is defined by a wall 12 composed of steel, ~:lead, or other non-buoyant, heavy material, and is shown as ~: cylindrica1 in the drawings, although the term "tubular" as used ~ .
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herein is not intended to be limited to cylindrical tubes and embraces tubes of non-circular cross-section as well as cylinders~ The wall 12 is not completely continuous and de-fines a slot 14 ~hrough which a fishing line 16 may be inserted so that the line is disposed within the tubular member as shown in Figure 1. The front end 18 oE the tubular member is con-nected to a strong cord 20 which is tied through the holes 22 in the cylindrical wall, there clearly being other equivalent means of attaching the cord.
A pair of grappling hooks 24 are attached to the rear end 26 of the tubular member in such a fashion that they may swivel or pivot as is clear from the drawings to engage the snagged fishing lure. These hooks may be fishing hooks as ~ -illustrated and provided in numbers other than two, and the hooks themselves may have only one or two prongs as desired. Each of the grappling hooks preferably has mounted thereto a deflector blade 28 which extends downwardly and outwardly with respect to the tubular axis so that the possibility of the hooks blocking - .
the entry of a snagged lure into the tubular member are minimized ~since the ambient water flow as the retriever is lowered will :: .
separate the hooks, so that they extend laterally and possibly even forwardly with respect to the tube, permitting the lure to at least partially enter the retriever without interference. It would, of course, be possible to use the hooks without the de-~25 ~ ~lec~tor although they produce an obviously advantageous result in use.
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~C)66891 Several modifications of the means to retain the line within the tubular menber are illustrated. Referring to Figures 2 and 3, a first split Velcro* strip 30 is ad-hered to the external surface of the wall 12 on opposite sides of ~,he slot 14~ and a second Velcro* strip 3~ is used to mate with the split strip whereby the slot is covered. The two Velcro* strips may be connected together along one edge as shown in Figure 3 at 34 so that the second strip may be opened lIke a page of a book and the possibility of misplacing it is , eliminated.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a line retaining means comprising a wire having a connector or spanner portion 36 terminating in clip rings 38 which are open at 40 and of diameter slightly larger than the interior diameter o the tubular member so that they are biased against the interior surface of the side wall, In order to insert a line, it may be forced through the siot to displace the free ends of the clip rings and enter the rings through the openings deflned - therein. The free ends 42 of the clip rings are inwardly ; 20 directed as best seen in Figure 5 to facilitate removal of the fishing line from the tubular member after the lure has been freed.
; Figure 6 illustrates a side wall having a wire 44 connecte~ at the ends 46 to the interior surface of the member by welding, solder, or any other means. The central portions of the wire are formed into convoluted or returned sections 48 . .
so that a fishing line which is threaded into the tubular ~ ' ` member may be coiled around several of the convolutions. Figure i i ` * Trade Mark page six ~l06~ 9~
9 illustrates an eyelet 50 mounted to the side of the tubular member opposite ~he entry slot, the e~elet havin~ a discon-tinuity at 52 for the insertion of a fishing line. There would ordinarily be two eyelets, one near each end of the tubular member. Figure 10 illustrates an embodiment of the line retainer which is conceptually similar to that of Figure 9 but rather than using an eyelet, a cylinder 5~ which spans most of the length of the tubular me~ber is welded or other-wise affixed to the interior surface of the tubular member, the cylinder having a slot 56 on the side ~hereof remote fromthe slot in the tubular member so that a line passed through both slots would stand little chance of becoming disengaged.
Figures 11 and 12 disclose yet another modification of the line retainer in which short spring wire sections 58 are welded or otherwise attached at 60 to the tubular member on one side of the slot therein and extend across the slot in flush with the side wall 12 on the side of the slot remote from ~he weldment. The ends of the spring wires are slightl~
bent away from the side wall to acilitate removal of the line, an~ as can be seen, these spring wires, which would be pro-; vided in pairs at opposite ends of the unit, could be eitherinteriorally or exteriorally disposed on the side wall.
Figure 13 illustrates the tubular member as having a ~ groove indicated at 62 in the interior surface of the sicle wall and a snap ring 64, very similar to the rings 56, seats in this groove. This interior snap ring arrangement would normally be used at both ends of the retriever, or compression snap rings 66 could be removably seated in external grooves 68 :
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~ eturning now to Figur~ 8, in that embodiment a cap 70 is fastened to the front end of the tubular body and has a radial slot passing from the circumference to a center hole 74. It is of course necessar~ that this cap be rotatably adjustable on the retriever body so that the slots 14 and 72 may be aligned to receive the fishing line, and to this end, the cap 70 may be either threaded onto the tubular member or snapped onto an annular ridge provided in the exterior surface thereof similar to the cap of a medicine bottle. In this emkodiment, it is desirable that the cord 20 not pass through the tuhular member as it does in the embodiment of Figure 2, but rather be inserted through one hole 22 only and knottad on the inside. . .
A split ring 76 is used at the rear end of Figure 8 to retain the line and this ring has a slot 78 and is threadedly or otherwise rotatably engaged on the tubular member as is the . cap 70 so that the respective slots may be aligned to receive the line. The split ring 76, of course, does not cover the end 20 ~ of the tuhe so that the fishing lure may enter the tubular ;. . member.
Figures 14 through l6 disclose an embodiment in which an o~erlap 82 is established, in the first instance disclosed in Figures 14 and 15 by means of extending the side wall so that it 25:~ ~overlaps i~self as best seen in Figure l~. In the embodiment illustrated in Figures 16 and 17, the. effect of the overlap is establlshed by the addition of a plate 84 which is spot welded or attached by other suitable means to the interior surface of :, , ~ .
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the side wall. A groove 86 is provided on the interior sur face of the plate to serve as a guide for the Eishing line as the retriever travels down the line, ancl oE course, this groove could also be formed in the embodiment of Figures 14 and 15. Figure 18 shows an embodiment identical in conceptto that shown in Figures 16 and 17 wherein a plate 84 is used as the line engaging means but is different in that rather than being spot welded, the plate is engayed with a clip 88 which is inserted over one end and around the right edge of the slot formed in the tubular member. It is contemplated tha~ this plate be constructed in plastic and for this reason a clip is used and it will be noted that the edge of the plastic member, which extends across the slot, is flush with the interior of the tube since it is sufficiently resilient to yield to the fishing line.
Figure 19 illustrates an ex~ension of the concept developed in Figure 18 wherein rather than utilizing a planar plate as the line retaining means, a wire loop 90 is used which is similar to the embodiment illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, except that rather than having the clip rings 38 to maintain the loop in position, a pair of end edge engaging clips 92 ~enable the retainer to be snapped into place.
' Although for the sake of simplicity, the hooks 24 have been omitted from many of the drawings, ordinarily they ~ would be included. It would, of course, be obvious from the above disclosure to utiliæe two different embodiments of the line retaining means in the same lure retriever, and all combinations of the line retaining means disclosed are consid- -` page nine -, , , . . , . ~ . , . . - : .
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ered to be within the scope of the invention.
In the operation oE the lure retriever, the line is passed throu~h the slot in the tubular membel~ 10 and engaged in whichever line retaining means is used. The retriever is then lowered down a fishing line 16, the grappling hoo}cs being spread due to the presence of the deflectors, until the tu~ular body slips over at leas* a portion of a snagged lure.
Upon the cessation of motion through the water, the hooks move inwardly from their outwardly deflected position to engage a hook on the lure 80 or another portion of the lure, and then, of course, the lure is retrieved by taking in the cord 20. It is an important feature of the invention that the grappling hooks directly engage the lure itself or its hooks so that the possibility of retrieval is maximum, and thus, it is similarly important that the tubular body of the retriever be of sufflcient interior diameter to permit the entry therein of most lures so that the grappling hooks may operate.
The last embodiment, shown in Figures 21 - 22 has proven the most feasible and economical from a manufacturing sta~dpoint. The tubular body 10 is completely clear in its lower portions with no clips or interior line-retaining structure which are subject to snaggins. Instead, the simple groove or channeI 86 is used to slidably seat the fishing line as the re-triever is lower.
To speed the passage of the retriever down the fishing line, a cylindrical welght 94, preferably made o lead, is threaded onto the line 20 as it passes through the holes 22.
This simple arrangement, with the groove and weight, has been shown to operate rapidly and effectively in the water.
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Background of the Invention The invention is in the field of sports fishing, and particularly relates to snagged fishing lure retrievers.
It is a common experience among sports fishermen to have a lure become snagged in weeds or rocks in the murky depths beyond visibility, and seasoned fi.shermen are well aware that retrieval of the lure by increased tension on the lightweight fishing line will frequently result in.the loss of the lure forevèr when the line snaps. Often this will be the fisherman's favorite lure, and as good fishing lures are fairly expensive, lure loss adds considerably to the cost of fishing, not to mention the frustration.
Although lure retrieving devices have been designed in the past to overcome this problem, commonly, these units are slid down the fishing line and are either battered against the lure by reciprocating a cord attached to the retriever in an effort to dislodge the lure, or the retriever may be provided with a mechanism for gripping either the fishing line :~ : itself near the lure, the lureleader, or the seivel attachment to the lurè, but in any event, the.lure itself is not engaged ~ by the retriever and the swivel attachment and leader are sub-: ~ ject to snapping~just~as is the fis~ing line itself if the lure :: ~ is firmly snagged.
Summary of_the Invention ~2~5 ~ : ~ The lure retriever o~ the present invention solves :the above-me~tioned problems and comprises a non-buoyant tube hav:ing a slot in the side thereof to which a fishing line attached .
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to a snagged lure may be passed, there being one oE several means within the tube to retain the line and prevent its escape through the slot. The top end of the tube is at-tached to a strong cord which is operated by a Eisherman, and a pair of swivel-mounted grappline hooks are mounted to the bottom of the tube. The hooks are prefexably provided with a planar deflector to deflect the hooks outwardly as t.he tube is lowered through the water so that when the tube encounters the lure, at least a portion of the lureenters the tube clear of the hooks, and the hooks then fall into place to engage the hooks on the lure or other parts thereof.
Brief Description of the Drawings .
Figure 1 illustrates the lure retriever in use showing the lure partially entered into the retriever with the grappling hooks engaging the lure;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the retriever:
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Figure 3 is an end elevation view of a Velcro* fastener attachment wherein the two strips are fastened together along one edge;
Figure 4 is a perspective view of an alternative line retainer;
~; Figure 5 is an end elevational view of the structure of Figure 4;
Figure 6 is a perspective view of a further line 25 ~ retainer, : ~ .
Figure 7 is an end elevational view of the structure o~`Figure 6;
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Figure 8 is a perspective view of a retriever hody with line retaining end caps;
Figures 9 - 13 are end elevational views of alter-native line re~ainer arrangements;
Figure 14 is a perspective view of an alternatlve unit made from a single piece of sheet material;
Figure 15 is a top plan view of the structure of Figure 14;
Figure 16 is a perspective view of a further configuration;
Figure 17 is a top plan view of the structure o Figure 16;
E`igure 18 is a perspective view of a unit with a clip-on retainer;
lS Figure l9 is a perspective view of a unit with a wire clip retainer; and Fiqure 20 is a section taken along lines 20 - 20 of Figure 18;
Figure 21 is an alternative embodiment of the device ~ utilizing a channel line retainer and an auxiliary weight;
Figure 22 i.s a sectional view taken along lines 22 -22 of Figure 21;
Figure 23 is a sectional view taken along lines 23 -23 of Flgure 22.
~25 The best overall view of the inv~ntion i5 illustrated in Figure 2I which shows the hollow tubular body lO of the lure retriever, which is defined by a wall 12 composed of steel, ~:lead, or other non-buoyant, heavy material, and is shown as ~: cylindrica1 in the drawings, although the term "tubular" as used ~ .
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herein is not intended to be limited to cylindrical tubes and embraces tubes of non-circular cross-section as well as cylinders~ The wall 12 is not completely continuous and de-fines a slot 14 ~hrough which a fishing line 16 may be inserted so that the line is disposed within the tubular member as shown in Figure 1. The front end 18 oE the tubular member is con-nected to a strong cord 20 which is tied through the holes 22 in the cylindrical wall, there clearly being other equivalent means of attaching the cord.
A pair of grappling hooks 24 are attached to the rear end 26 of the tubular member in such a fashion that they may swivel or pivot as is clear from the drawings to engage the snagged fishing lure. These hooks may be fishing hooks as ~ -illustrated and provided in numbers other than two, and the hooks themselves may have only one or two prongs as desired. Each of the grappling hooks preferably has mounted thereto a deflector blade 28 which extends downwardly and outwardly with respect to the tubular axis so that the possibility of the hooks blocking - .
the entry of a snagged lure into the tubular member are minimized ~since the ambient water flow as the retriever is lowered will :: .
separate the hooks, so that they extend laterally and possibly even forwardly with respect to the tube, permitting the lure to at least partially enter the retriever without interference. It would, of course, be possible to use the hooks without the de-~25 ~ ~lec~tor although they produce an obviously advantageous result in use.
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~C)66891 Several modifications of the means to retain the line within the tubular menber are illustrated. Referring to Figures 2 and 3, a first split Velcro* strip 30 is ad-hered to the external surface of the wall 12 on opposite sides of ~,he slot 14~ and a second Velcro* strip 3~ is used to mate with the split strip whereby the slot is covered. The two Velcro* strips may be connected together along one edge as shown in Figure 3 at 34 so that the second strip may be opened lIke a page of a book and the possibility of misplacing it is , eliminated.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a line retaining means comprising a wire having a connector or spanner portion 36 terminating in clip rings 38 which are open at 40 and of diameter slightly larger than the interior diameter o the tubular member so that they are biased against the interior surface of the side wall, In order to insert a line, it may be forced through the siot to displace the free ends of the clip rings and enter the rings through the openings deflned - therein. The free ends 42 of the clip rings are inwardly ; 20 directed as best seen in Figure 5 to facilitate removal of the fishing line from the tubular member after the lure has been freed.
; Figure 6 illustrates a side wall having a wire 44 connecte~ at the ends 46 to the interior surface of the member by welding, solder, or any other means. The central portions of the wire are formed into convoluted or returned sections 48 . .
so that a fishing line which is threaded into the tubular ~ ' ` member may be coiled around several of the convolutions. Figure i i ` * Trade Mark page six ~l06~ 9~
9 illustrates an eyelet 50 mounted to the side of the tubular member opposite ~he entry slot, the e~elet havin~ a discon-tinuity at 52 for the insertion of a fishing line. There would ordinarily be two eyelets, one near each end of the tubular member. Figure 10 illustrates an embodiment of the line retainer which is conceptually similar to that of Figure 9 but rather than using an eyelet, a cylinder 5~ which spans most of the length of the tubular me~ber is welded or other-wise affixed to the interior surface of the tubular member, the cylinder having a slot 56 on the side ~hereof remote fromthe slot in the tubular member so that a line passed through both slots would stand little chance of becoming disengaged.
Figures 11 and 12 disclose yet another modification of the line retainer in which short spring wire sections 58 are welded or otherwise attached at 60 to the tubular member on one side of the slot therein and extend across the slot in flush with the side wall 12 on the side of the slot remote from ~he weldment. The ends of the spring wires are slightl~
bent away from the side wall to acilitate removal of the line, an~ as can be seen, these spring wires, which would be pro-; vided in pairs at opposite ends of the unit, could be eitherinteriorally or exteriorally disposed on the side wall.
Figure 13 illustrates the tubular member as having a ~ groove indicated at 62 in the interior surface of the sicle wall and a snap ring 64, very similar to the rings 56, seats in this groove. This interior snap ring arrangement would normally be used at both ends of the retriever, or compression snap rings 66 could be removably seated in external grooves 68 :
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~ eturning now to Figur~ 8, in that embodiment a cap 70 is fastened to the front end of the tubular body and has a radial slot passing from the circumference to a center hole 74. It is of course necessar~ that this cap be rotatably adjustable on the retriever body so that the slots 14 and 72 may be aligned to receive the fishing line, and to this end, the cap 70 may be either threaded onto the tubular member or snapped onto an annular ridge provided in the exterior surface thereof similar to the cap of a medicine bottle. In this emkodiment, it is desirable that the cord 20 not pass through the tuhular member as it does in the embodiment of Figure 2, but rather be inserted through one hole 22 only and knottad on the inside. . .
A split ring 76 is used at the rear end of Figure 8 to retain the line and this ring has a slot 78 and is threadedly or otherwise rotatably engaged on the tubular member as is the . cap 70 so that the respective slots may be aligned to receive the line. The split ring 76, of course, does not cover the end 20 ~ of the tuhe so that the fishing lure may enter the tubular ;. . member.
Figures 14 through l6 disclose an embodiment in which an o~erlap 82 is established, in the first instance disclosed in Figures 14 and 15 by means of extending the side wall so that it 25:~ ~overlaps i~self as best seen in Figure l~. In the embodiment illustrated in Figures 16 and 17, the. effect of the overlap is establlshed by the addition of a plate 84 which is spot welded or attached by other suitable means to the interior surface of :, , ~ .
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the side wall. A groove 86 is provided on the interior sur face of the plate to serve as a guide for the Eishing line as the retriever travels down the line, ancl oE course, this groove could also be formed in the embodiment of Figures 14 and 15. Figure 18 shows an embodiment identical in conceptto that shown in Figures 16 and 17 wherein a plate 84 is used as the line engaging means but is different in that rather than being spot welded, the plate is engayed with a clip 88 which is inserted over one end and around the right edge of the slot formed in the tubular member. It is contemplated tha~ this plate be constructed in plastic and for this reason a clip is used and it will be noted that the edge of the plastic member, which extends across the slot, is flush with the interior of the tube since it is sufficiently resilient to yield to the fishing line.
Figure 19 illustrates an ex~ension of the concept developed in Figure 18 wherein rather than utilizing a planar plate as the line retaining means, a wire loop 90 is used which is similar to the embodiment illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, except that rather than having the clip rings 38 to maintain the loop in position, a pair of end edge engaging clips 92 ~enable the retainer to be snapped into place.
' Although for the sake of simplicity, the hooks 24 have been omitted from many of the drawings, ordinarily they ~ would be included. It would, of course, be obvious from the above disclosure to utiliæe two different embodiments of the line retaining means in the same lure retriever, and all combinations of the line retaining means disclosed are consid- -` page nine -, , , . . , . ~ . , . . - : .
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ered to be within the scope of the invention.
In the operation oE the lure retriever, the line is passed throu~h the slot in the tubular membel~ 10 and engaged in whichever line retaining means is used. The retriever is then lowered down a fishing line 16, the grappling hoo}cs being spread due to the presence of the deflectors, until the tu~ular body slips over at leas* a portion of a snagged lure.
Upon the cessation of motion through the water, the hooks move inwardly from their outwardly deflected position to engage a hook on the lure 80 or another portion of the lure, and then, of course, the lure is retrieved by taking in the cord 20. It is an important feature of the invention that the grappling hooks directly engage the lure itself or its hooks so that the possibility of retrieval is maximum, and thus, it is similarly important that the tubular body of the retriever be of sufflcient interior diameter to permit the entry therein of most lures so that the grappling hooks may operate.
The last embodiment, shown in Figures 21 - 22 has proven the most feasible and economical from a manufacturing sta~dpoint. The tubular body 10 is completely clear in its lower portions with no clips or interior line-retaining structure which are subject to snaggins. Instead, the simple groove or channeI 86 is used to slidably seat the fishing line as the re-triever is lower.
To speed the passage of the retriever down the fishing line, a cylindrical welght 94, preferably made o lead, is threaded onto the line 20 as it passes through the holes 22.
This simple arrangement, with the groove and weight, has been shown to operate rapidly and effectively in the water.
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Claims (4)
1. A fishing lure retriever comprising:
(a) a side wall defining a non-buoyant tubular mem-ber having a front end and a rear end and a longitudinal slot ex-tending therethrough;
(b) means for retaining a fishing line inserted through said slot within said tubular member; and (c) a plurality of spaced swivel mounted hooks de-pending from the rear edge of said member;
(d) each of said hooks having a deflector element attached thereto and angled rearwardly and outwardly from the axis of said tubular member to cause said hooks to expand when lowered through the water to straddle a lure on the end of a fishing line and expose an unobstructed corridor defined by said tubular member to receive a lure, said deflector elements also acting to deflect said hooks together into engagement with a lure positioned there-between when said retriever is raised through the water.
(a) a side wall defining a non-buoyant tubular mem-ber having a front end and a rear end and a longitudinal slot ex-tending therethrough;
(b) means for retaining a fishing line inserted through said slot within said tubular member; and (c) a plurality of spaced swivel mounted hooks de-pending from the rear edge of said member;
(d) each of said hooks having a deflector element attached thereto and angled rearwardly and outwardly from the axis of said tubular member to cause said hooks to expand when lowered through the water to straddle a lure on the end of a fishing line and expose an unobstructed corridor defined by said tubular member to receive a lure, said deflector elements also acting to deflect said hooks together into engagement with a lure positioned there-between when said retriever is raised through the water.
2. A fishing lure retriever according to claim 1 wherein said side wall laterally overlaps itself over the entire length of said tubular member to define said slot as a spaced parallel-wall-ed open passageway between the overlapping edges of said wall.
3. Structure according to claim 1 wherein said means for retaining a fishing line comprises VELCRO-type material attach-ed externally on said side wall along both sides of said longitud-inal slot, and a mating strip of VELCRO-type material to cover said slot and capture a fishing line within said tubular member.
4. A fishing lure retriever according to Claim 1 wherein said retaining means comprises an open longitudinal channel defined in the inner surface of said tubular member in which a fishing line can slideably seat and including a pair of opposed holes in the front end of said tubular member and having a tether line passing through said holes, and further including an aper-tured weight disposed in said tubular member between said holes and having said tether entrained therethrough.
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