COLLAPSIBLE, TRIANGULAR NET ASSEMBLY

• US 3,815,272 A
• Filed: 01/03/1973
• Issued: 06/11/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gilles E. Marleau
• Original Assignee: Gilles E. Marleau
• Inventors: Marleau, Gilles E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chamblee, Hugh R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Leach, Daniel J.
• Application Number:
  US05/320,744
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 43/12
• US Class Current: 43/12
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 77/00 Landing-nets for fishing; Landing-spoons for fishing

Abstract

A collapsible three sided fishing net, having a handle which combines to form a storage cylinder for the net when it is in collapsed condition. Three solid net-supporting arms cooperate to expand from collapsed parallel position to form a triangle, firmly engaged with a handle. The handle itself serves as a storage holder in one embodiment of the invention, and in a second embodiment a secondary, shorter handle integral with the net supporting arms is also provided. The triangular configuration of the net may be varied, in one embodiment of the invention, depending on the function to which the net is put. In collapsed condition one embodiment of the net is compact enough to be stored in an average-sized tackle box.

Claims

1. A collapsible, triangular net assembly including a handle and three relatively inflexible net-supporting arms;

each of the first and second of said net-supporting arms being pivotally attached at one end to said handle;

the third of said net-supporting arms being pivotally attached at one end to the other end of said first arm;

the third and second of said arms being slidably engaged one with the other;

whereby said three arms may be selectively open to form a netsupporting triangle; and

said arms may be closed into close, side-by-side parallel relationship by sliding one of said second or third arms toward one end of said first arm.

2. A collapsible, triangular net assembly according to claim 1, said first and second arms being U-shaped in cross section, whereby when said arms are closed into side-by-side parallel relationship, the third of said net-supporting arms is contained between and within said first and second arms.

3. A collapsible, triangular net assembly according to claIm 1, said second and third arms being slidably engaged one with the other, by the provision of a ball-extension at the end of one of said arms, slidably engageable within a slit provided in the other of said arms, which is configured as a longitudinally slit cylinder.

4. A collapsible, triangular net assembly according to claim 1, the third and second of said arms being slidably engaged one with the other, by means of a sliding collar provided at the end of one of said arms, adapted to slidably surround the other of said arms.