Fisherman's knot tying device

• US 5,971,447 A
• Filed: 04/15/1998
• Issued: 10/26/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William F. Steck III
• Original Assignee: William F. Steck III
• Inventors: Steck, William F III
• Primary Examiner(s): Neas, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US09/060,055
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 289/17, 289/18.1, 289/2, 43/1, 43/4, 223/102, 66/116, 66/117, 401/6
• US Class Current: 289/17
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 91/04 for connecting lines to hooks or lures

Abstract

A hand held knot tying device used for tying fishermen'"'"'s knots, such as nail knots, which are used to tie monofilament segments to fishing line segments. The device has a straight portion that extends approximately one-half of its length at which point the other half tapers down to a diameter that is small relative to the straight portion. The grooves run the length of the straight portion but run out in the tapered portion due to the taper going below the depth of the grooves. To tie a knot with the device, the fisherman lays the fishing line in the widest groove, then, coming from the opposite direction, he lays the monofilament in one of the other grooves. Next, and having provided enough slack to do so, he wraps the monofilament back upon itself and the fly line, so as to form multiple coils, and then tunnels the free end of the monofilament back beneath the coils, using the third groove as a tunneling means. He then tightens the coils to form a knot around the straight portion. Next he slides the knot down the tapered portion. This loosens the knot, because the base around which it is wrapped becomes smaller as a direct result of going down the taper. Therefore, it is tightened again and slid further down the tapered portion until, ultimately, the knot is tightened around the extreme end of the device. Now the knot can be slid off the device, without danger of it coming undone due to overly large coils, and it is tightened for the last time. Finally, the free ends of the fishing line and monofilament are clipped short to complete the nail knot.

Claims

1. A fisherman'"'"'s knot tying device comprising:

a solid rod comprising a cylindrical portion and a tapered frustoconical end portion, said rod including at least two longitudinally extending grooves therein, a first of said grooves being sized to receive a fly fishing line, and a second of said grooves being sized to receive a fly fishing leader, said grooves being circumferentially offset from each other on said rod;

said cylindrical portion being operable to provide a mandrel about which a free end of a leader disposed in said second one of said grooves can be coiled about a line disposed in said first one of said grooves so as to form a slack knot between said leader and said line, and said tapered end portion providing a progressively diminishing surface upon which the slack knot can be progressively tightened as the device is disengaged from the leader and line.

2. The knot tying device of claim 1 wherein said grooves run out in said tapered end portion of said rod.

3. A fisherman'"'"'s knot tying device comprising:

a solid rod comprising a cylindrical portion and a tapered frustoconical end portion, said rod including a first longitudinally extending groove sized to receive a fly fishing line;

a second longitudinally extending groove sized to receive a fly fishing leader;

said grooves being circumfertially offset from each other on said rod;

said cylindrical portion being operable to provide a mandrel about which a free end of said leader disposed in said second one of said grooves can be coiled about a line disposed in said first one of said grooves so as to form a slack knot between said leader and said line, and said tapered end portion providing a progressively diminishing surface upon which the slack knot can be progressively tightened as the device is disengaged from the leader and line; and

a third groove in said rod, said third groove being operable to allow the free end of the leader to be slid underneath the slack knot in a direction on the device which is opposite to the tapered end portion of said device.