GB2472419A - A fishing hook - Google Patents
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- GB2472419A GB2472419A GB0913664A GB0913664A GB2472419A GB 2472419 A GB2472419 A GB 2472419A GB 0913664 A GB0913664 A GB 0913664A GB 0913664 A GB0913664 A GB 0913664A GB 2472419 A GB2472419 A GB 2472419A
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
- A01K83/00—Fish-hooks
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Abstract
A fishing hook comprising a coating 4, a tip portion 10 which does not have the coating, and a removable cap 12 on the tip portion. The coating may be provided with at least one pigment for imparting a colour to the coating so that the fishing hook blends in with its surroundings during fishing. The coating improves penetration of the hook into the fish and inhibits corrosion. The cap may be made from a soft material such as rubber or a plastics material.
Description
A FISHING HOOK
This invention relates to a fishing hook and, more especially, this invention relates to a fishing hook comprising a coating.
Many fishing hooks are sold with a coating for improving penetration into a fish, and also for inhibiting corrosion. The coated fishing hooks are especially preferred for carp fishing. The coating is a polytetrafluoroethylene.
coating.
The coating causes a problem in that the coating is quite a viscous coating. This means that the coating has an inherent thickness. When the coating is applied to the hook, it causes the hook to lose its sharpness. Thus a coated hook is never as sharp as an uncoated hook.
To anglers, and especially carp anglers, point sharpness for a tip portion of the fishing hook is an extremely important issue. It is generally accepted that the sharper the tip portion, then the more effective the hook will be.
It is an aim of the present invention to obviate or reduce the above mentioned problem.
Accordingly, in one non-limiting embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a fishing hook comprising a coating, a tip portion which does not have the coating, and a removable cap on the tip portion.
The fishing hook of the present invention is advantageous in that the majority of the fishing hook is able to have the coating which provides required improved penetration into a fish, and which also provides required inhibition of corrosion. The fishing hook is however still able to be as sharp at the tip portion as an uncoated fishing hook because the tip portion does not have the coating. When the fishing hook is required for use, it is simply necessary to remove the removable cap from the tip portion.
Usually, the cap will only cover the tip portion. The cap can however extend further along the fishing hook than just the tip portion if desired.
Preferably, the cap is a friction fit on the tip portion. Thus, during manufacture, the cap is able to be pushed on by hand by a person involved in the manufacture of the fishing hook. When the fishing hook is required for use, then the cap is able to be pulled off by hand by an angler.
Preferably, the cap is made of a soft material. This is to ensure that the cap cannot inadvertently blunt the tip portion of the hook as the cap is placed on the tip portion of the hook during manufacture of the fishing hook.
Preferably the cap is made of a rubber material but other materials such for example as plastics materials may be employed.
The fishing hook may be one in which the coating is such that it is applied after the cap has been positioned on the tip portion.
Preferably the coating is a dip coating. Other types of coating may however be employed so that, for example, the coating may be a spray coating.
As indicated above, the coating will usually be one which is for improving penetration into a fish, and also for inhibiting corrosion. A presently preferred coating is polytetrafluoroethylene. The polytetrafluroethylene is available under the Registered Trade Mark Teflon. Other types of coatings may be employed if desired. Thus, for example, the coating may be a paint.
Alternatively the coating may be a metal coating such for example as black nickel or thin metal plating.
With the above mentioned known fishing hooks with their coating of polytetrafluoroethylene, a further problem exists in that the polytetrafluoroethylene coating gives a dull grey colour. A dull grey colour does not easily blend in with surroundings during fishing, for example a lake bed. With the fishing hook of the present invention, the coating is advantageously able to comprise at least one pigment for imparting a colour to the coating that is intended to cause the fishing hook to blend in with its surroundings during fishing.
Preferably, the coating has a gravel brown colour or a weed green colour. The gravel brown colour may be that denoted by Pantone 463u. The weed green colour may be that denoted by Pantone 2c. Other colours may be employed for causing the coating to have a desired colour that enables the hook to blend in with its surroundings during fishing. A single pigment or mixtures of pigments may be employed to obtain the desired colour.
A coloured coating fishing hook of the present invention is thus able to provide the double advantage of firstly having a sharp tip portion and a coating, and secondly a coating which is of a colour which enables the fishing hook to blend in with its surroundings during fishing.
An embodiment of the invention will now be described solely by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 is a section through a fishing hook of the present invention; Figure 2 is an enlarged exploded view of an end portion of the fishing hook shown in Figure 1; and Figure 3 is a view like Figure 2 but not exploded.
Referring to the drawings, there is shown a fishing hook 2 comprising a coating 4. The coating 4 extends over a shank part 6 and the majority of a hook part 8 of the fishing hook 2. The fishing hook 2 also comprises a tip portion 10 which does not have the coating 4. A removable cap 12 is positioned on the tip portion 10. The cap 12 covers only the tip portion 10.
The cap 12 is a friction fit on the tip portion 10. During manufacture, the cap 12 is pushed on by hand by a person involved in the manufacture of the fishing hook 2. When the fishing hook 2 is desired to be used by an angler, the angler simply pulls the cap 12 by hand off the tip portion 10. The cap is made of a soft rubber material so that the cap 12 is unable to blunt the tip portion 10 if the cap 12 should be pushed too hard onto the tip portion 10 during assembly at the time of manufacture of the fishing hook 2 and its cap 12.
The coating 4 is such that it is applied after the cap 12 has been positioned on the tip portion 10. More specifically, the coating 4 is a dip coating 4 which is obtained by dipping the fishing hook 2 with the cap 12 in position into an appropriate dip of coating material. The coating material is polytetrafluoroethylene.
The coating material comprises at least one pigment for imparting a desired colour to the coating, with the colour being one which is intended to cause the fishing hook 2 to blend in with its surroundings during fishing.
Preferably, the coating is a gravel brown colour or a weed green colour. Both colours blend in with the bottom of lakes and rivers that are used by anglers for carp fishing. The blending in of the fishing hook with its surroundings gives an angler an extra advantage over known fishing hooks insofar as the known fishing hooks which are coated with polytetrafluoroethylene have a dull non-reflective finish which is a shade of grey and which is not a good colour for blending discretely into fishing surroundings during fishing, for example on a lake bed or a river bed. In addition, the fishing hook 2 has the further advantage that the tip portion 10 does not have the coating and thus it remains at an optimum level of sharpness, and it is not blunted by the coating. Both of these advantages are extremely important to anglers and thus the fishing hook 2 is very advantageous compared with known coated fishing hooks.
It is to be appreciated that the embodiment of the invention described above with reference to the accompanying drawings has been given by way of example only and that modifications may be effected. Thus, for example, the shape of the fishing hook 2 and/or the shape of the cap 12 may be varied.
The tip portion 10 may be 1 or 2mm in length but it may be of other lengths if desired. Coatings other than polytetrafluoroethylene may be employed. The coating may be used without the above mentioned pigment or pigments which impart the colour.
Claims (13)
- CLAIMS1. A fishing hook comprising a coating, a tip portion which does not have the coating, and a removable cap on the tip portion.
- 2. A fishing hook according to claim 1 in which the cap covers only the tip portion.
- 3. A fishing hook according to claim 1 or claim 2 in which the cap is a friction fit on the tip portion.
- 4. A fishing hook according to any one of the preceding claims in which the cap is made of a soft material.
- 5. A fishing hook according to claim 4 in which the cap is made of a rubber material or a plastics material.
- 6. A fishing hook according to any one of the preceding claims in which the coating is such that it is applied after the cap has been positioned on the tip portion.
- 7. A fishing hook according to any one of the preceding claims in which the coating is a dip coating.
- 8. A fishing hook according to any one of the preceding claims in which the coating is one which is for improving penetration into a fish, and also for inhibiting corrosion.
- 9. A fishing hook according to any one of. the preceding claims, in which the coating is polytetrafluoroethylene.
- 10. A fishing hook according to any one of the preceding claim in which the coating comprises at least one pigment for imparting a colour to the coating that is intended to cause the fishing hook to blend in with its surroundings during fishing.
- 11. A fishing hook according to claim 10 in which the coating is a gravel brown colour.
- 12. A fishing hook according to claim 10 in which the coating is a weed green colour.
- 13. A fishing hook substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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| GB0913664.9A GB2472419B (en) | 2009-08-05 | 2009-08-05 | A fishing hook |
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| GB0913664.9A GB2472419B (en) | 2009-08-05 | 2009-08-05 | A fishing hook |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US20170188560A1 (en) * | 2016-01-05 | 2017-07-06 | Graham Tackle, LLC | Flared double fish hook |
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| US2700244A (en) * | 1951-09-04 | 1955-01-25 | Raymond H Greenwood | Fishhook guard |
| US3670445A (en) * | 1971-02-05 | 1972-06-20 | George Frederick Borger | Fish hook guard |
| US4928423A (en) * | 1988-07-20 | 1990-05-29 | Yoshikazu Furuta | Fishhook and method for producing the same |
| EP0380735A1 (en) * | 1989-02-03 | 1990-08-08 | Yoshikazu Furuta | Fishhook and producing method of the same |
| EP0726303A2 (en) * | 1995-02-03 | 1996-08-14 | Nihon Kagaku Hakko K.K. | Light-storing materials and fishing apparatus including such materials |
| GB2407244A (en) * | 2003-10-22 | 2005-04-27 | Graham Brian Haynes | Fishing hook |
| US20080014371A1 (en) * | 2003-06-13 | 2008-01-17 | Mike Mattlage | Method of Producing a Coated Fishing Hook |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| US2700244A (en) * | 1951-09-04 | 1955-01-25 | Raymond H Greenwood | Fishhook guard |
| US3670445A (en) * | 1971-02-05 | 1972-06-20 | George Frederick Borger | Fish hook guard |
| US4928423A (en) * | 1988-07-20 | 1990-05-29 | Yoshikazu Furuta | Fishhook and method for producing the same |
| EP0380735A1 (en) * | 1989-02-03 | 1990-08-08 | Yoshikazu Furuta | Fishhook and producing method of the same |
| EP0726303A2 (en) * | 1995-02-03 | 1996-08-14 | Nihon Kagaku Hakko K.K. | Light-storing materials and fishing apparatus including such materials |
| US20080014371A1 (en) * | 2003-06-13 | 2008-01-17 | Mike Mattlage | Method of Producing a Coated Fishing Hook |
| GB2407244A (en) * | 2003-10-22 | 2005-04-27 | Graham Brian Haynes | Fishing hook |
Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US20170188560A1 (en) * | 2016-01-05 | 2017-07-06 | Graham Tackle, LLC | Flared double fish hook |
| US10750730B2 (en) * | 2016-01-05 | 2020-08-25 | Graham Tackle Llc | Flared double fish hook |
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| GB0913664D0 (en) | 2009-09-16 |
| GB2472419B (en) | 2013-04-10 |
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