Fishing line knot tying tool

• US 4,403,797 A
• Filed: 03/08/1982
• Issued: 09/13/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ewing Ragland Jr
• Original Assignee: Ewing Ragland Jr
• Inventors: Ragland, Ewing Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rimrodt, Louis
• Application Number:
  US06/355,980
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 289/1.2, 289/1.5, 289/17, 43/1, 43/4
• US Class Current: 289/17
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 91/04 for connecting lines to hooks or lures

Abstract

In a hand held tool for tying a knot connecting a fishing line to the eye of a fishhook, an elongated generally planar body, is provided with a fishhook supporting forwardly projecting tube and a pair of resilient fins diverging from its rearward end. A laterally projecting lug having a transverse slot holds an intermediate portion of the line. The line free end, after being threaded through the eye of the fishhook, is entrained transversely across the tips of the diverging fins and wrapped a plurality of times about the tube and extended through the opening formed by the fins and line and secured by a slot at the juncture of the fins. The knot and fishhook is then removed forwardly off the tube and the knot tightened against the eye of the fishhook.

Claims

1. A hand held tool for tying a fishing line to the eye of a piece of fishing tackle, comprising:

an elongated planar body having a forward end and a rearward end;

a resilient projection protruding laterally from one side edge of the body and having a transverse slot therein normal to the plane of the body for frictionally holding an intermediate portionof a fishing line;

elongated tube means projecting longitudinally forward of the body for supporting a piece of fishing tackle and for threading a free end portion of a fishing line through the eye thereof and forming a forward doubled back line bight portion adjacent the tube and enable a free end portion of the line to be wrapped around the tube and doubled back line bight portion; and

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a pair of fins diverging rearwardly from the rearward end and in the plane of said body;

said fins each having a pointed rearward tip end transversely slotted parallel with the plane of the body for frictionally holding an intermediate portion of the fishing line when strung therebetween forming a rearward line bight portion defining an opening in combination with the rearward fins through which a free end portion of the fishing line is passed.

2. The tool according to claim 1 in which said tube means includes:

a tube having a length at least greater than the shank length of a fishhook to be tied to a fishing line; and

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a resilient plug closing the forward end portion of said tube for frictionally receiving the hook portion of a fishhook and supporting the shank thereof substantially parallel with the axis of said tube.

3. The tool according to claim 1 in which said tube means includes:

a tube having a length at least greater than the length of a piece of fishing tackle to be tied to a fishing line;

a resilient plug closing the forward end portion of said tube; and

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a thumb tack normally supported by one side surface of a said body,

said thumb tack having a prong capable of entering said resilient plug and supporting one end portion of a piece of fishing tackle to be tied to a fishing line.

4. The tool according to claim 2 or 3 in which said body is provided with a longitudinal bore extending inwardly from its forward end a distance substantially equal to the length of said tube.