Apparatus for securing a fishing lure to a fishing line

• US 4,649,664 A
• Filed: 09/27/1985
• Issued: 03/17/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Joe C. Mahan
• Original Assignee: Joe C. Mahan
• Inventors: Mahan, Joe C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Godici, Nicholas P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Reid, G. M.
• Application Number:
  US06/781,056
• Time in Patent Office: 536 Days
• Field of Search: 43/43.1, 43/43.11, 43/42.49, 43/44.83, 43/44.91, 43/44.94, 114/218, 24/117 R, 24/121, 24/129 R, 24/130, 24/134 L, 24/140
• US Class Current: 43/44.83
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 91/04 for connecting lines to hooks or lures
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3918 Wedge slot

Abstract

An apparatus for releaseably securing a fishing lure to a fishing line. The apparatus includes an elongate body having spaced pairs of aligned transverse gripping members. The apparatus is secured by the fishing line to the fishing lure or alternatively forms an integral part of the lure. A fishing line is inserted through passageways in opposite ends of the body of the apparatus and forms a loop that engages the "eye" of the fishing lure, secured by engaging gripping members on alternate sides of sequential pairs on the apparatus.

Claims

1. Apparatus for securing a fishing lure to a fishing line, comprising:

an elongated body defining a longitudinal axis and having a first and a second end, said body including at least two pairs of aligned transverse gripping members mounted on said body symmetrical about said longitudinal axis and said gripping members are spaced apart from said first and said second ends of said body and from each other, said gripping members adapted for frictionally engaging the fishing line and engaging the fishing lure so as to secure the fishing lure thereto, each of said pair of gripping members are longitudinally spaced apart by a fishing line accommondating space, said fishing line accommondating space being adapted to accommondate a fishing line therein, and said gripping members each comprise;

(a) a slot formed in said body, said slot having an opening, and said slot opening transvere to said longitudinal axis;

(b) an upper tooth formed in said slot transverse to said longitudinal axis; and

(c) a pair of lower teeth formed in said slot generally parallel to but offset and spaced apart from said upper tooth, whereby the fishing line is gripped between said upper tooth and said lower teeth when inserted within said slot.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said upper and lower teeth diverge outwardly within said slot.

3. The Apparatus of claim 2, wherein said upper and lower teeth diverge at a constant angle of 10 degrees.

4. The apparatus of of claim 1, wherein said gripping members each comprise:

a slot formed in said body transverse to said longitudinal axis, said slot having opposing parallel surfaces adapted to frictionally engage the fishing line when inserted within said slot.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said gripping members each comprise:

a slot formed in said body transverse to said longitudinal axis, said slot having an upper and a lower surface, said upper and lower surfaces diverging outwardly from said longitudinal axis of said body and adapted to frictionally engage the fishing line when inserted within the slot.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said pasageway on said second end includes a slit adapted for recieving the fishing line as the fishing line is inserted into said passageway in said second end.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of said first and second ends of said body have a passageway for receiving the fishing line.

8. Apparatus for securing a fishing lure to a fishing line, comprising:

(a) a body defining a longitudinal axis;

(b) two generally parallel rows of gripping members, said rows spaced apart by a fishing line accommondating space, said fishing line accommondating space being adapted to accommondate a fishing line therein, and said rows extend from said body, said gripping members in each row being traversely aligned pairs about said longitudinal axis of said body, each of said gripping members including a slot wherein a line passing axis of the slot is defined by the direction the slot is adapted to pass a line and said line passing axis is generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body, whereby the fishing line maybe engaged with said gripping members and the fishing lure so as to secure the fishing lure to the fishing line.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein each of said gripping members comprise:

(a) a slot formed in said body;

(b) an upper tooth formed in said slot transverse to said longitudinal axis; and

(c) a pair of lower teeth formed on an opposite side of said slot spaced apart from said first tooth, said upper and said lower teeth adapted to frictionally engage the fishing line when inserted within the slot.

10. Apparatus of claim 8, wherein said body includes a first and a second end, at least one of said first and said second ends having a passageway adapted for receiving the fishing line and extending to said gripping members for conveying the fishing line to the gripping members.