Container for fish and fish receiving device

• US 5,038,515 A
• Filed: 11/14/1989
• Issued: 08/13/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Guy L., Iii (One-Half Undivided Interest Mcclung
• Original Assignee: Guy L., Iii (One-Half Undivided Interest Mcclung
• Inventors: Moorhead, Jack B.
• Primary Examiner(s): ROWAN, KURT C
• Application Number:
  US07/436,354
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 43/55, 43/56, 224/920, 224/921, 206/315.11
• US Class Current: 43/55
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 63/02 Receptacles specially adapted for transporting live fish
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 97/20 Keepnets or other containers for keeping captured fish A01K97/05 takes precedence

Abstract

A container for fish and a fish receiving device for use with containers or with receptacles for fish. In one embodiment a container is an insulating container for receiving and maintaining fish in a fresh condition, the container having exteriopr walls and one wall or top movably connected to one of the other walls for opening the container and a fish receiving device mounted to one of the walls or to the top, the fish receiving device including a flexible member such as, but not limited to, a piece of fabric into and through which a fish can be inserted into the container. A fish receiving device which in one embodiment includes a frame member to which is mounted a flexible member such as, but not limited to, a piece of fabric into and through which a fish can be inserted.

Claims

1. A fish receiving device for mounting over a hole in a container for keeping fish, the fish insertable through the hole into the container, the fish receiving device comprising

a frame member mountable over the hold,

a flexible member mounted to the frame member,

the flexible member having opening means therein into which and through which a fish is insertable into the container through the hole,

the flexible member including two pieces of flexible fabric secured to the frame each with an edge meeting an edge of the other piece over the hole to form an opening means along and between the edges, and

a cover secured to one of the two pieces of flexible fabric or to the frame and at least partially covering each piece of fabric and the area along which their edges meet.

2. The fish receiving device of claim 1 wherein the cover itself is a piece of flexible fabric.

3. The fish receiving device of claim 1 including also a fish measuring scale on the frame and an extensible scale member with a fish measuring scale thereon, the extensible member movably disposed between the frame member and the container so that it can be extended and then used in conjunction with the fish measuring scale to accommodate a fish.