Fishing hook assembly
US5577340A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 9, 1995 |
| Grant date | Nov 26, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 9, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA01K85/02
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A pair of mutually confronting fish hooks are spring-coupled at the shank ends thereof to define thereof a shielding loop which circumscribes the barbed and pointed ends of the hooks. Accordingly, the coupled hooks can be drawn through submerged obstructions without getting snagged on such. The so-coupled hooks are replacements for the barbed hooks of crankbaits, for example, and upon a fish striking the so modified crankbaits, the spring yields and exposes the barbed, pointed ends externally of the shielding loop. In an alternate embodiment, the spring-coupled or calipered hooks are confined within a sheathing, frog-simulating body, and in another embodiment, the hooks are sheathed in an expandable tube. Fish strikes, again, diminish the loop and dispose the barbed, pointed ends of the hooks at-the-ready for piercing the thin sheathing and lodging in the mouth of the fish.
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