GB2120061A

GB2120061A - Apparatus for hauling in a fishing line

Info

Publication number: GB2120061A
Application number: GB08214277A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Jorgen Jorgensen-Dahl
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1982-05-17
Filing date: 1982-05-17
Publication date: 1983-11-30
Also published as: GB2120061B

Abstract

An assembly for hauling in a fishing line comprises a hook aligner (10), a hook guide and a driven drum (11) with hook magazines (15) provided on one of the drum flanges. The hook guide comprises a hook holder (1) which is moved along the rail (3) by the snell (8) against the tension in spring 2, one end (4) of said rail (3) being pivotally mounted and the other end (5) being arranged for movement from a hook-receiver position to a hook- delivery position.The assembly also includes a pulley (6) by the rail pivot point for guiding the line (7) on to the drum, the snell (8) drawing the hook holder (1) along with it towards pulley (6) and after passing beneath the pulley permitting the hook holder (1) to be pulled back along the rail (3) by spring (2), said rail during the to-and-fro movement of the hook holder pivoting toward the periphery of the drum flange, where a hook trapping means guides the hook onto a hook magazine. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION An assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding up a fishing line with attached snells.

The present invention relates to an assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and coiling up a fishing line with attachedsnellsand hooks.

The traditional way of fishing with lines in Norway has been to bait the lines manually, store them in tubs, and set the lines in the sea directlyf rom the tubs.

This way offishing, however, can no longer be practiced today, as it requires both too much time and too many personnel, and thus is much too expensive.

Therefore, especially in the past twenty years or so, a number of attempts have been madeto automate both the baiting and setting of fishing lines, as well as their retrieval.

Norwegian Patent 104,806, for example, describes an apparatus for setting and hauling in fishing lines, the assembly comprising a reel or drum for winding and unwinding the line as it is being pulled in and set out, respectively, wherein hook magazines are provided, evenly distributed aboutthe circumference of the reel, which are intended to receive the hooks as the line is hauled in and wound around the reel, and wherein the line, prior to passing onto the winding means, passes a set of brushes which serve to clean the hooks and straighten out the snells. In addition, this patent describes special means for controlling the line and attached hooks in such mannerthatthe hooks are brought into the correct position in relation to the hook magazine.

Norwegian Patent 129,074 also describes a means for continuous preparation of hook-carrying snells on afishing iine.

Norwegian Patent No. 127,086 describes a method for unwinding entangled hook-carrying snells on a fishing line by means of a rotating magnetic field.

The assemblies in the prior art have notfound wide practical application,forthe reason thatthey either are unnecessarily complicated, are not reliable enough, require too many personnel ortoo much space, or are too expensive.

It is the object ofthe present invention to rectify the drawbacks ofthe prior art, and the invention thus comprises an assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding up a fishing line with snells and hooks mounted thereon, comprising a hook aligner, a hook guide and a driven coiling drum with hook magazines provided on one ofthe drum flanges, and the assembly is characterized in thatthe hook guide comprises a hook holder which is slidably disposed on a rail orthe like and which by overcoming a counterforce from, e.g., a tension spring, is drawn along the rail by the snell, one end of said rail being pivotally mounted and the other end being arranged for movementfrom a hook-receiver position to a hook-delivery position, a pulley arranged in the vicinity of the pivot point ofthe rail for guiding the line backto, so that it may be coiled on,the winding drum which is arranged adjacent the hookaligner,thesnell drawing the hook holder along inthe direction ofthe pulley and being held taut during this,furtherthatthe snell after having passed around the pulley permits the hook holder to be pulled back along the rail by the tension spring, the rail during the to-and4ro movement of the hook holder being pivoted toward the periphery ofthe drum flange, where one of the hook trap means provided at the margin oftheflange guides the hook onto one of the hook magazines.

The invention will be further illustrated by the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 ia a schematic view ofthe assembly of the invention, in side view, and Figure 2 shows the same assembly seen from above.

When the fishing line is being hauled in, the fish are taken offthe hooks and the line passes first th rough a washing bin (not illustrated). In the latter, the hooks are captured and are pulled by means of the line which passesovera pulley6intoa hookaligner10.

In a manner known per se, the hookisthen oriented with the tip downward.

Following such orientation, the hook is drawn into a hook guide with a spring-loaded hook holder 1. The hook holder slides on a rail 3 which can be pivoted in the horizontal plane about a point 4 adjacent the end of the rail that is located downstream in the assembly in relation to the direction of movement of the line as it is being hauled in.

As the point of attachment ofthe snell 8 to the fishing line passes over the pulley 6, the snell passes beneath the pulley. To ensure that this occurs in a satisfactory manner, the lower flange of the pulley is provided with grooves which capturethe snell when the snell forms an angle relative to the pulley.

After having passed around the pulley, the line is wound onto a vertically-disposed drum 11. Atthis point in time, the point of attachmentforthe snell to the line has passed the pulley and the spring-loaded hook holder 1 guides the hookwith the snell held taut toward the lowerflange of the drum, which in a manner known per se is provided with hook magazines.

Atthe same time as the point of attachmentforthe snell on the line is guided toward, or perhaps is located at, the pulley, the rail pivots from the hook-receiver position in alignment with the hook aligner 10 into a hook-delivery position fortransfer- ring the hookto the hook magazines in the lower flange of the drum.

Here, the rail is locked by means of a locking mechanism until the hook has been captured by saw-tooth-like hook trap means at the outer end ofthe hook magazines.

The hook holderthus stops at a definite point and at such an anglethatthetrapping means on the hook magazine can easily pluckthe hook out of the hook holder. This is obtained in that the hook holder is provided with a guide pin on the underside thereof which follows a groove our a cam in a fixed plate underneath it and thus pivots the rail in the manner indicated above.

Owing to the angle ofthe hook magazine in relation to the radius of the drum flange, the hook is drawn inwardly in the magazine.

By means of a suitable release mechanismforthe rail, the latter, owing to the hook holder's being retracted by means of said spring force, will pivot back into the hook-receiver position at the same time as the hook holderslides back into the starting position in frontofthe hookaligner.

With the assembly of the invention, because everything is "folded double", one obtains a great saving of space, which is of great importance because it allows the assembly of the invention to be installed even on fishing boats which heretofore have beentoo small to accommodate such automated equipment.

The assembly ofthe invention is not complicated, which renders it reasonable in cost and also reliable in operation, and it is in addition easy to operate, thus requiring fewer personnel.

In conjunction with a suitable baiting device, the invention enables a fishing boatto operate with substantially fewer personnel, thus permitting much higherefficiencyandamuch moreeconomicfishing operation.

Claims

1. An assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding up a fishing line with attached snells and hooks, comprising a hook aligner, a hook guide and a driven drum with hook magazines provided on one of the drum flanges, characterized in that the hook guide comprises a hookholderwhich is slidably disposed on a rail orthe like and which, by overcoming a counterforcefrom, e.g., a tension spring, is moved along the rail bythe snell, one end of said rail being pivotally mounted and the other end being arranged for movement from a hook-receiver position to a hook-delivery position, the assembly also including a pulley arranged in the vicinity of the pivot point ofthe rail for guiding the line backto, so that it may be coiled on, the drum,the snell drawing the hook holder along with it in the direction ofthe pulley and during this being heldtaut,furtherthatthesnell after having passed around the pulley permits the hook holder to be pulled back along the rail by the tension spring, said rail during the to-and-fro movement of the hook holder pivoting toward the periphery of the drum flange, where one of the hooktrapping means provided on the margin of the drum flange guides the hook onto one of the hook magazines.

2. An assembly according to claim 1, characterized in thatthe hook holder has a guide pin for cooperation with a guide in the form of a groove or cams in the frame of the line-hauling mechanism,for pivoting the rail from the hook-receiver position into the hookdelivery position during the movement of the hook holder away from the hookaligner.

3. An assembly according to claim 2, characterized in thatthe guide comprises a groove or a cam which cooperates with a guide pin orthe like on the hook holder, formed so thatwhen the hook has been delivered, the hook holdertravelsfurther along the rail to its hook-receiver position, causing the rail to pivot back to its receiver position, so that the hook holder is ready to capturethe next hook.

4. An assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding up a fishing line with attached snells and hooks, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.