US3076284A - Casting splasher - Google Patents

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Feb. 5, 1963 e. ADAMS CASTING SPLASHER Filed May 4, 1961 IN VEN TOR.

United States Patent O 3,076,284 CASTING SPLASHER George L. Adams, 422 W. Maple St., Compton, Calif. Filed May 4, 1961, Ser. No. 107,701 1 Claim. (Cl. 433-431) This invention relates to new casting splashers and to their method of production. As is known to fishermen, a splasher is secured at one end to the casting line and carries on its other end the leader, hook and whatever else is used to interest a fish. The splasher, generally a more or less oblong body, is intended to hit the water in such way as to attract nearby fish. Presumably on the theory that they will mistake it for another fish leaping for food, it is hoped they will hurry to the spot to share the same and will consequently encounter the hook and line with a gratifying result to the fisherman.

After being cast, it is desirable that the splasher then float in a manner or position to most satisfactorily suspend the leader and hook behind it, and perhaps by its continuing position in the water to further attract fish. Consequently, in addition to the shape of the splasher, there are problems of weighting or balancing it both for casting and for floating.

Accordingly I have developed an essentially bulletshaped splasher having (1) beneficial air-flow characteristics for casting due to its conic forward end, (2) by reason of its opposite perpendicular, flat end producing a maximum splash upon emergence after initial submergence in the water nose-first, and (3) being weighted at thenose so as to dispose it upright when floating as well as to ensure that after first sinking it will return to the Water surface with its flat end substantially parallel thereto so as to cause the greatest splash. I have further effected a highly efficient method of incorporating in such structure an axial attachment member for opposite-end connection respectively to the casting line and to the leader, desirably in each case by an intermediate swivel.

Consequently the objects of the invention include the production of such improved splashers of highly effective design and operation, which can be fabricated economically and produced in quantity with predictably consistent utility and durability.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as the description proceeds, having particular reference to the accompanying drawings of a presently preferred embodiment of the invention wherein FIGURE 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my splasher in its vertically floating position in the water with the axial attachment rod and connected swivels seen in elevation;

FIGURE 2 is a vertical sectional view thru the splasher body at right angles to FIGURE 1, as viewed along the line 2-2;

FIGURE 3 is a top plan view of the splasher body as seen along the line 3-3 of FIGURE 1; and

FIGURE 4 is a transverse sectional view thru the nose end of the splasher taken along the line 4-4 of FIGURE 1.

The splasher is desirably made of wood and painted white for the benefit of the fish, although other material could be used. The shape however is fairly similar to a bullet or torpedo, with a conic forward end or nose 12 .tapering back to a generally cylindrical body 14 which terminates in a perpendicular, flat, disk-shaped end 16. The nose 12 has a blunt end 18 of small diameter, which is axially counterbored 20 for a considerable distance.

The splasher is then drilled somewhat angularly from the disk end 16 to form a longitudinal bore 22 which enters the inner end of the counterbore 2t); and a shorter, generally perpendicular closed-end bore 24 is also drilled inward from the flat end 16, approximately parallel to the angular bore.

A longitudinal rod 26 having one end turned back to form an elongated eye 28 and with a swivel 30 hung on the eye, is then inserted lengthwise jointly thru the counterbore 20 and the angular bore 22 until the inner end of the eye 34 abuts against the end wall 36 of the counterbore, with the opposite rod terminus 32 projecting straight beyond the disk end 16.

A swivel 38 is then mounted over the rod end 32 and the latter bent back and inserted part way into the dead-end bore 24. This causes the lower eye 28 (of approximately equal length) to project part way out of the counterbore (which is about twice such length). The rod 26 being held in such position, the counterbore is then filled with fluid ballast or molten metal 40, such as lead, which is allowed to solidify, serving both to anchor the rod securely in place and to balance the striker for floating in a vertical position. In this connection it is important to note that the volume of the counterbore is calculated (in addition to having a diameter adapted to receive the width of the eye 28) to contain a predetermined weight or quantity of ballast 40, which is selected to float the striker at a designated water level, which may be indicated by a score line or mark 42 on the side.

Thus, as seen in FIGURE 1, after the striker 10 has been cast into the water 44 nose first by means of the swivel-connected line 46, the initially submerged striker then rises to the illustrated floating position with its flat disk-end 16 out of the water, and its dependent swivel 30 suspending a leader (not shown) holding a dangling hook (not shown). The oppositely projecting eye loops 50, 52 ensure that if the original swivels 30, 38 be severed therefrom, other coupling elements can be secured thereto and the striker maintained in service.

I claim:

A casting splasher comprising an elongated body cylindrical in shape for at least one half of its length and with a generally frustro-conical nose on one end and a discshaped flat opposite end, the nose end being formed with an axial counterbore, the flat end of the body having formed therein a pair of substantially parallel bores displaced equally on opposite sides of the center of the flat end, one bore extending at an angle to the longitudinal axis of said body and into the counterbore, the other bore being relatively shorter than the angular bore, a longitudinal rod disposed jointly through the counterbore and the connected angular bore and having a U-turned end inserted in said short bore and an elongated eye formed on the other end of the rod and disposed partly within and partly projecting from said counterbore when the U-turned end is in the short bore, the projecting end of the eye having a U-shaped terminal end for supporting a swivel at the axis of the body, and ballast being positioned in the remaining area of the counterbore with the eye projecting centrally from the counterbore, said ballast 8,076,284 3 4 being adapted to dispose the splasher to float upright 2,518,634 Peterson Aug. 15, 1950 in the water with its flat end projecting therefrom, where- 2,605,576 Young et a1 l Aug. 5, 1952 by the main portion of a two section fish line can be 2,691,842 Brown Oct. 19, 1954 secured to the U-turned end of the rod and the other 2,694,844 Grumbach Nov. 23, 1954 portion to the swivel. 5 2,740,226 Arff Apr. 3, 1956 References Cited in the file of this patent 2753651 Flsher July 1956 UNITED STATES PATENTS FOREIGN PATENTS 1,512,656 Ward Oct. 21, 1924 757,512 Great Britain Sept. 19, 1956 2,498,815 McVay Feb. 28, 1950 10

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