Noisemaking device for use with fishing lure or bait and method of making same

• US 3,935,660 A
• Filed: 03/17/1975
• Issued: 02/03/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Franklin T. Plew
• Original Assignee: Franklin T. Plew
• Inventors: Plew, Franklin T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Louis G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Leach, Daniel J.
• Application Number:
  US05/559,221
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 43/42.31, 43/42.24, 43/42.37, 43/42.38, 43/42.53, 43/44.4
• US Class Current: 43/42.31
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 85/01 with light emission, sound emission, scent dispersal or the like

Abstract

A noisemaking device for use with a fishing lure or bait to enhance its attractiveness to fish comprises a container formed of two flanged deep cups held together by a length of heat-shrinkable tubing and loosely containing one or more metal balls. The device may be molded into an artificial lure or may be attached directly to a fish hook or wire harness for use with an artificial lure or live bait.

Claims

1. A noisemaking device for use with a fishing lure or bait comprising:

first and second metal cups each having a closed end and an open, flanged end, assembled with their flanged ends in abutting relation to form a closed container;

one or more metal balls loosely received in said container;

and a shrinkable sleeve surrounding the abutting flanged ends of said cups and shrunk about the same to secure the cups in assembled relation.

2. A noisemaking device according to claim 1 wherein the shrinkable sleeve is a length of heat-shrinkable tubing.

3. A noisemaking device according to claim 2 wherein the sleeve is of a length to overlap the flanged ends of both cups and is shrunk at its ends into tight engagement with the tubular side walls of the cups.

4. A noisemaking device as in claim 1 assembled to a metal shaft extending lengthwise alongside said device and having an offset portion bridging said abutting flanged ends.

5. A noisemaking device according to claim 4 wherein said metal shaft is the shank of a fish hook.

6. A noisemaking device according to claim 4 wherin said metal shaft is a wire harness having attaching means at its ends.

7. A noisemaking device as in claim 1 molded in place in a molded fishing lure, the assembled flanged ends of the device and their overlying sleeve forming an annular rib about the device which is closely surrounded by the molded material of the lure to secure the device in place in the lure.

8. The method of making a noisemaking device for use with a fishing lure or bait comprising the steps of:

inserting one or more metal balls into the cavity formed in a first metal tube with one closed end and one open, flanged end;

placing the flanged end of a second metal tube having an open, flanged end and a closed end in abutting relationship with the flanged end of said first tube;

placing a sleeve of shrinkable tubing about the abutting flanged ends of said first and second metal tubes; and

shrinking said sleeve about said abutting flanges of said first and second metal tubes to form a closed container within which said one or more metal balls are free to move and thereby cause noise to be produced.

9. The method of claim 8 in which the shrinkable tubing is heat-shrinkable and is shrunk in place by heating.

10. The method according to claim 8 with the addition of placing a metal shaft alongside the assembled device, and forming a securing band about such shaft to secure the shaft in supporting relation with the device.

11. The method according to claim 10 wherein said metal shaft is the shank of a fish hook.

12. The method according to claim 10 wherein said metal shaft is a wire harness.

13. The method of claim 8 with the addition of molding a lure body about the device and in closely embracing relation with the rib formed by the flanged ends and their surrounding sleeve to secure the device in place in the lure.

14. The method of claim 9 in which said tubing has a pre-shrunk diameter of a size to snugly engage the abutting flanges to retain the same in assembled relation for subsequent processing.