CA1263022A - Apparatus for hooking and possibly baiting of a fishing line - Google Patents

Apparatus for hooking and possibly baiting of a fishing line

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CA1263022A
CA1263022A CA000498560A CA498560A CA1263022A CA 1263022 A CA1263022 A CA 1263022A CA 000498560 A CA000498560 A CA 000498560A CA 498560 A CA498560 A CA 498560A CA 1263022 A CA1263022 A CA 1263022A
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Kolbjorn Bjorshol
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Abstract An apparatus for hooking and possibly baiting of a fishing line provided with snoods (13), each of which having a head (8) adapted to be releasably connected to the neck of a fish-ing hook (7). The apparatus comprises a hook magazine (4) adapted for placing hooks in a stack and a pusher (6) for moving the hook (7) into engagement with the snood head (8).
In order to retain snood heads (8) for coupling them to hook necks a stationary retainer element (9) and a cooperating movable retainer element (1) are provided, while a drive mechanism is provided for moving the movable retainer element in order to release the snood head after the pusher 16) has moved the hook neck into engagement with the snood head. One of the retainer elements (1,9) may have a recess (14) for placing of the snood heads (8), and the stationary retainer element (9) may be equipped with a protrusion 112) adapted to guide the snood heads (8) into the recess. Morover, said apparatus may comprise a bait magazine (4) and a cutting knife (2) for bait.

Description

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An apparat~s for hooking and possibly baiting of a fishing line.

The pre~sent invention relates to an apparatus for hooking ~nd possibly baiting of a fishing line provided with snoods, each of which having a head adapted to be relea~ably connected to the neck of a fishing hook. The apparatus comprises a hook magazine adapted for placing hooks in a stack and a pu~her ~or movin~ the lowerm~st hook into engayement with the snood head.

During line *ishiny it is an advantage to store a line which is out of use free from ~ounted hooks, in order to avoid that a large number of hooks gets entangled with each other and with the snoods and the line. It has, therefore, been pre-viously suggested to equip the snoods with heads which per-mit releasable coupling to the necks of the fishing hooks. A
snood head which can be used ~or this purpose is described in Norwegian Acceptance Print No. 146,935.

The hooking,and possibly the baiting, is preferably performed by use of an apparatus. 5uch an apparatus is described in Norwegian Acceptance Print No. 148,906. The known apparatus comprises a tur~able table, on which is placed a hook ma~a-zine, and possibly a bait ~agazine, retainers for transitory ret1ining of snood heads, and possibly a cutting knife for bait. The snood heads are guided one by one in a circular path toge~her with: the table, and hooking is carried out automatically at the same time, possibly also baiting, in that the hooks are moved into engagement with snood heads and are possibly also being baited by being moved through bait.

The presen~ invention provedes an apparatus which carries out the same task, i.e. hooking, possibly combined with baiting, in such a manner ~hat movement of the snood heads and their snoods in a circular path is avoided.

The apparatus in accordance with the inven~ion i5 characteri-zed in that features appear:ing from the accompanying claim 1.

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When using an apparatus in accordance with the invention the ~nood heads are retained one by one by two cooperating re-tainer elements, of which one is stationary and the other one is movable, and the retaining ceaseg automatically when a pu~her has moved a hook into engagement with the snood hea~.
Moreovex, the apparatus may comprise a bait magazine provided betwee~ the hook maga~ine and the stationary retainer ele-ment, and a cutting knife follows the move~ent of the movable retainer element in order to cut bait.

The invention will hereinafter be explained more detailed, with reference to the accompanying drawings, showing an embodiment of an apparatus in accordance with the invention.
The drawings only show those parts of the apparatus which have a direct influence on the hooks, the bait and the snood heads, and the drive mechanism for movement of the parts has not been shown. The embodiment shown also performs baiting.

Fig. 1 shows a plan view of the apparatus in an initial posi-tion, whereby a snood head is situated between the retainer elements.
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~ig. 2 shows a section along the line A-A i Fig. 1.
' Fig. 3 shows the app~ratus seen horisontally, in a direction towards t~e right in Fig. 1.

Fi~. 4 shows a plan view of the appara~us, in a position where the lowermost retainer element ha~ been moved sli~htly away from ~he initial position, ~nd the cu~ting knife has started cutting of the bait, while the pusher has started to ~ove a hook towards the snood head.

Fig. 5 sho~s a section along the line C-C in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 shows a plan view of the apparatus, in a position where the lowermos~ retainer elemen~ has been moved away from ~:63~;2Z

the ~tationary retainer element, and the cutting knifa has cut entirely through the bait, while ~he pu~her has moved the hook into engagement with the snood head.
., Fig. 7 shows a section along the line D-D- :in Fig. 6.

The apparatus ~hown in the drawings comprises a movable re-tainer element 1 fastened to an arm 3 in order to be able to pivot in a horisontal plan The retainer element 1 coopera-t~s with a stationary retainer element 9 having a recess 14 for placing of a snood head B. In order to guide snood heads to the r~cess 14 the retainer elemen2 9 has a protrusion 12.
When a ~nood head 8 is situated inside of the protrusion 12 the corresponding snood 13 is guided in between the retainer elementsl and 9, in such a manner that the snood head 8 i~
pulled into the recess 14 and is retained in a correct posi-tion ~or entering the end of the neck of a hook.

As it appears particularly from Figs. 2, 5 and 7 hooks lie in a stack in the hook magaæine 4. A movable pusher 6 is in its initial position, shown in Fig. l, outside of the hook maga-:zine 4, which has an aperture in one wall, through which the pusher 6 can be moved. Tn ~he opposite wall the hook maga-zine 4 has another aper~ure through which the hooks can ~e moved out one by one, moved by the pusher 6. The hooks in-sid the hook magazine 4 are lying with their hook necks aligned with a hole in the snood head 8 in the recess 14 when the hooks are successively being situated at the ~ot~om of the stack.
, The embodiment shown also comprises a bait magazine S con-~aining bait 15. The bait magazine is situated between the hook magazine 4 and the stationary retainer element 9. A
cutting knife 2 has been provided in order to cut off a piece from the bait. The l~tter performs a pivotal movement in the hor.i30ntalt plane together ~-1th the movable retainer element 1. As it appears from Fig~ 2 thP movable retainer element 1 .fL26 30 ~Z

also forms support for ~he bait 15 in the bait magazine 5, until the ~ovable retainer element has been moved away suffi-ciently to cause that the supporting ceases, as shown in Fig.
1. .

In the initial position, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a guiding lever 10 forms a laterial guide or the hook neck of the lowermost hook 7 in the hook magazine 4. In the position shown the guiding lever 10 is prevented in pivoting downward-ly, because it abuts a portion of the movable retainer element 1 which supports the bait 15. ~oreover, the guiding lever 10 is biased by a spring 11 for pivotal movement in the upward direction. However, the supporting of the guiding lever 10 ceases when the retainer element 1 has moved to the position shown in Figs. 4 and 5. In this position the hook neck of the hook 7 has been pushed through the piece of bait which is nearly cut off by the cutting knife 2. The snood head 8 is still kept between the retainer elemen~ 1 and 9, because the portion of the movable retainer element 1 situated below the snood head is elongate in the direction of movement.

~he hooks in the hook magazine 4 are to be pushed with their hook necks into the snood heads 8 which are held in the recess 14. During the initial part of the movement of the lowermost hook 7 in the hook magazine 4 the hook is guided by the guiding lever 10. Later the guiding is taken over by an aperture 16 provided between the retainer elements 1 and 9.
~i~D 5 shows a lowermost hook 7 immediately prior to entering the aperture 16, pushed by the pusher 6. In this position the hook is still guided also by the guiding lever 10, and the aperture 16 cooperates wi~h the guidiny lever 10 in order to keep the hook aligned with the snood head 8. When the hook 7 has entered the snood head 8 the retainer element 1 is moved so far that the portion of the retainer element which define~ the aperture 16 is moved away rom the corresponding portion of the retainer element 9, so that the hook 7 is re-~2~3 leased and may be removed together wi~h ~he snood head 8 andthe ~nood 13.

The formation of the aperture 16 takes place in the same manner as the formation of the recess 14 for the snood heads, and each snood head 8 is released simultaneously with ~he re-lease from the aperture 16 of that hook which is connected to the snood head.

During the last part of the movement of the retainer element 1, the cutting knife 2 and the pusher 6 to the position shown in ~igs. 6 and 7, the pusher will force the the guiding lever 10 downwardly, in order to provide ~pace for the pusher 6, as it appears from Fig. 7. The hook neck is pushed into the snood head 8, which is released because the retainer element 1 leaves the area below the snood head 8. The cutter knife 2 cuts entirely through the bait, and in the position shown in Fig. 6 and 7 the baited hook is ready to be removed from the apparatus together with the snood head 8 and the snood 13.
After this removal the cutting knife 2 makes a support for the remaining bait in the bait magazine 5. The retainer el~ment 1, the cuttin~ knife 2 and the pusher 6 are moved back to the initial position, and are ready for a corre-sponding cycle. During said movement the retainer element 1 will successively take over the supporting of the bait 15.

In the shown and described embodiment the retainer element 1 and the knife 2 are mounted for pivotal movement in the horisontal plane. It will~be appreciated tha~ the movement may be different, for instance a rectilinear movement. This may for instance be achieved when;~he retainer element 1 and the cutting knife 2 are mounted on slides or rollers on rails.

The positioning of the snood heads 8 inside of the protrusion 12 of the retainer element 9 may be carried out manually or ~i3~

by use of mechanical devices.

It will also appear that the apparatus may he used only for hooking, without baiting, whereby the baiting is carried out after the hooking. The ~ook magazine 4, the pusher 6 and the retainer elements 1 and 9 may in this case bP provided as shown, with the exception that the portion of the retainer element 1 adapted to support the bait can ble omitted.

In order to start the movement of the retainer element 1 and the pusher 6, and of a possible cutting knife for bait, it may be provided a not shown sensor giving a signal to the drive mechanismO

Of course, the drive mechanism is designed in such a manner that the movement of the movable retainer element and of a possible cutting knife is adapted to the movement of the hook pusher. This can be achieved by a mechanism driven by a motor, and it is possible to use electric, pneumatic or hydraulic motors which are controlled according to per se known principles.

Claims (13)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive right or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. An apparatus for hooking of a fishing line provided with snoods, each snood having a head adapted to be releasably connected to the neck of a fishing hook, comprising a hook magazine for placing hooks in a stack, a pusher for moving the hooks into engagement with respective snood heads, a stationary retainer element and a cooperating movable retainer element for retaining snood heads and for connecting them to hook necks, and a drive mechanism for moving the movable retainer element in order to release the snood heads after the pusher has moved the hook neck into engagement with the respective snood head.
2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the retainer elements comprises a recess for placing of the snood heads.
3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the stationary retainer element includes a protrusion for guiding the snood heads into the recess.
4. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein the movable retainer element has a portion located close to the stationary retainer element prior to the starting of the movement of the movable retainer element and the pusher.
5. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, including a sensor for detecting when a snood head is being held by the two retainer elements, and for providing a signal to the drive mechanism to start the movement of the movable retainer element and of a cutting knife for bait.
6. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, including a cutting knife for movement together with the movable retainer element in order to cut bait located in a bait magazine situated between the hook magazine and the stationary retainer element.
7. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, including a cutting knife for movement together with the movable retainer element in order to cut bait located in a bait magazine situated between the hook magazine and the stationary retainer element, the movable retainer element being provided with an element for supporting the bait.
8. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the movable retainer element, together with a cutting knife, is mounted pivotally in the horizontal plane.
9. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein the hook magazine has a spring biased guiding lever for lateral guiding of the hook neck of the lowermost hook in said magazine, and wherein the pusher during the last part of its movement, in order to push the lowermost hook forward, surmounts the spring force and pushes the guiding lever in a downward pivotal movement, driven by the drive mechanism.
10. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein portions of the two retainer elements are adapted to form, prior to the entering of the hook neck of a hook in the recess, a guide for the hook neck.
11. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein portions of the two retainer elements are adapted for form, prior to the entering of the hook neck of a hook in the recess, a guide for the hook neck, and wherein the portion of the movable retainer element which defines an aperture forming said guide is adapted to be moved away in order to release the hook neck when the latter has entered the snood head.
12. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, including a sensor for detecting when a snood head is being held by the two retainer elements, and for providing a signal to the drive mechanism to start the movement of the movable retainer element.
13. An apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein the movable retainer element is mounted pivotally in the horizontal plane.
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