Classifications

• • 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
  • A01K91/00—Lines
  • A01K91/18—Trotlines, longlines; Accessories therefor, e.g. baiting devices, lifters or setting reelers
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps
  • Y10S24/908—Fishline supported attachment hook

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a process for fastening a rigid, shape-stable stop arrangement to a line, especially for closing off or anchoring a rigid, shape-stable clip having associated swivel and snell, rotatably mounted about the line.
• the present invention is consequently directed more particularly to a stop arrangement, which is included in line fishing equipment which forms the connection between the line and associated fishing hooks each fastened to the line via its respective swivel and intermediate snells which are fastened to the fishing hook.
• the invention relates to a connecting arrangement for fastening snells to the line, where the snell is connected via a swivel with a clip, which co- operates with a rigid, shape-stable stop arrangement which is secured to the line.
• a stop arrangement is fastened on the line in the form of a first stop member having a U- shaped cross-section for installing the line sideways in the stop arrangement and a second insert member which is adapted to be snapped into engagement with the first stop member for locking the stop arrangement to the line in an immovable manner.
• a clip is adapted to be received pivot- ally mounted in an annular groove on the periphery of the stop arrangement, a clip being snapped in place on the stop arrangement in an annular locking engagement.
• a stop arrangement is shown of split ring form which receives pivotally mounted in an annular peripheral groove a connecting arrangement in the form of a split sleeve and an equivalent split fastening portion projecting laterally outwards for the fastening means of the snell.
• stop devices In the known constructions various types of stop devices are employed. According to a first example two clamp members of plastic are employed, which are squeezed into a snap engagement with each other from each side of the line. According to a second embodiment the stop devices are cast in place on the line. By the use accord ⁇ ing to a third embodiment of corded material a portion of the stop device is thrust inwardly into the cross-section of the line or a connecting means is fastened through the stop device and inwardly into the line. In all the known solutions the forces which can be transferred from the stop device to the line without the line being destroyed or without the stop device being destroyed are limited.
• the aim first and foremost is a solution where the stop device or stop devices can be fastened in a stable and reliable manner, without damaging the line, and with the possibility of transferring relatively large forces between stop device and line brought about by tension in the snell via swivel and associated clip.
• the aiore-mentioned object is solved according to the invention by a process of the kind indicated by way of introduction, which is characterised in that the rigid, shape-stable stop arrangement, which is made of corded or stringy material and wh-.ch initially has a closed annular form, is mechanically secured to the line by deformation of the material of the stop arrangement by radial, local pressing in of the stop arrangement in the cross-section of the line, via at least one stop portion of the stop arrangement: and preferably via two or more mutually separated stop portions of the stop arrangement and simultaneously fixing an adjacent support portion or several adjacent support portions for supporting abutment against the remaining periphery of the line.
• the stop arrangement or the stop arrangements can be secured in a rapid and effective and at the same time reliable and gentle manner on the line, in readiness for the transfer of partly large forces in the longitudinal direction of the line to the stop arrangement or t,e stop arrangements.
• a stop arrangement is employed in the form of a metal ring having a spherical outer surface. It is not stated concretely with which fastening means the stop arrangement is fastened to the line. Furthermore there is employed a clip in the form of a claw-shaped body, which has an equivalent spherical inner surface, in order to be able to permit rotatable mounting of a clip on the metal ring with the spherical surface.
• the claw-shaped body has an inherent elasticity, so that it can be snapped into engagement with the stop arrangement.
• This solution has the weakness that as a result of the snapping action, based on the inherent elasticity of a clip, it is not sufficiently stable as to shape and therefore is not adapted to transfer significant forces between clip and stop arrangement. The solution will therefore be unsuit ⁇ able for line fishing at large ocean depths.
• relatively sharp end edges of a clip can be freely pivoted inwardly into the line and damage this.
• the aim as a further aspect is to produce a simpler connecting arrangement which provides a better, that is to say stronger and thereby more reliable fastening for the snell on the line and which provides a simpler and more robust connection between stop arrangement and clip.
• the process according to the invention is in this connection characterised in that a clip, which initially is approximately C-shaped or U-shaped, is mechanically fastened in place on the stop arrangement in a surround- ing, rotatably mounted engagement with the latter, by deformation of a clip to an approximately or substantially annular contour.
• the connecting arrangement according to the invention is characterised in that the rigid, shape-stable stop arrangement is mechanically secured to the line in intimate engagement with the latter, and that the rigid, shape-stable clips, which is mechanically secured by rotatable mounting directly on the stop arrangement, covers parts of the line and the intermediate stop arrangement, a clip projecting with its end edges a distance axially outside the stop arrangement and surrounding parts of the line at a certain radial distance from the latter, while the stop arrangement is received in a middle, internal guide groove, which is defined an axial distance within end edges of a clip, so that the stop arrangement and the middle guide groove jointly control a clip pivotally mounted relative to the stop arrangement.
• a clip can also be produced with an especially simple, robust design by way of simple means.
• it is easier to achieve an effective control by employing a sole, simple stop arrangement and opposite end stops internally in a clip, than by employing a clip which is controlled between two end stops in a sleeve-shaped stop arrangement of known construction.
• the stop arrangement can with advantage also find application as end stops on each side of a separate rotatably mounted clip.
• the guide groove can be milled out or hollowed out in another way in the material of the clip on the inner side of the clip with an equivalently reduced wall thickness at the guide groove. This can be appropriate in lines which are exposed to limited tension forces.
• the guide groove is pressed out of the clip material without substantially reducing the wall thickness of a clip, but with a form which provides extra support and reinforcement of the annular shape of a clip.
• the stop arrangement has a substantially rectangular cross-section. There can hereby be ensured an effective engagement between line and stop arrangement and in addition great inherent rigidity can be achieved in the stop arrangement.
• the connecting arrangement is characterised in that the stop arrangement is formed with two or more depressions on the outer periphery of the ring shape and equivalently with two or more projections on the inner periphery of the ring shape and with substantially circular arcuate portions between the depressions on the outer periphery of the ring shape, the projections forming anchoring means of the stop arrangement on the line, while the substantially circular arcuate, outer portions consti ⁇ tute a substantial proportion of the radially outermost peripheral portion of the ring shape for controlling a clip on the stop arrangement.
• Fig. 1 shows in side view a connecting arrangement, illustrated in combination with a line fragment and a snell.
• Fig. 2 shows in cross-section the same as in Fig. 1.
• Fig. 3 shows in cross-section in a first embodiment a clip which forms a part of the connecting arrangement.
• Fig. 4 shows in cross-section in a second embodiment a clip which forms a part of the connecting arrangement.
• Fig. 5 shows in a side view a clip according to Fig. 4 illustrated in combination with a line fragment.
• Fig. 6 shows in a side view a third embodiment of a connecting arrangement in combination with a line frag ⁇ ment.
• Fig. 7 shows a cross-section along the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.
• Fig. 8 shows a longitudinal section along the line 8-8 of Fig. 7.
• Fig. 9 shows a cross-section of a clip as illustrated in Fig. 7 in an inactive, unaffected condition.
• Fig. 10 and 11 show in side view a fourth and a fifth embodiment of a connecting arrangement in combi ⁇ nation with a line fragment.
• a fishing line 10 is shown with associated snell 11.
• the snell 11 is provided at the free end with a fishing hook (not shown) in a manner not shown further.
• the snell 11 is connected to the fishing line 10 by means of a connecting arrangement 12.
• the connecting arrangement 12 shall allow rotation of the snell 11 about its own axis and shall allow in addition swinging of the snell 11 about the axis of the line 10, at the same time as the snell 11 is to be retained in place in the intended position on the fishing line 10.
• the connecting arrangement 12 comprises a swivel 13 in the usual way, which is directly connected at the one end to the snell 11 (in a manner not shown further) and is connected at the other end via an elongate fastening eye 14 on a clip 15.
• a clip 15 is fastened in place around the line 10 via a split-up clip ring portion 16.
• the connecting arrangement 12 further comprises a stop arrangement 17 in the form of a simple, corded body.
• the corded body is made in the first embodiment in the form of a closed ring.
• the ring is pressed inwardly into the line 10 substanti ⁇ ally across the latter.
• the remainder of the ring forms a resistance to such a press ⁇ ing in by a supporting abutment around the periphery of the line and with this becomes effectively clamped against the line with a ring portion 19, which surrounds the major portion of the periphery of the line in tight abutment against the latter.
• the projecting ring portion 18 and the substantially circularly shaped ring portion 19 of the stop arrangement 17 are arranged in one and the same plane at right angles to the line 10.
• a ring portion 16 of a clip 15 is designed with an internal, annular groove 20, which forms a guide groove for a clip 15 relative to ring portion 19 of the stop arrangement 17.
• a clip 15 is adapted to be pivotally mounted on the stop arrangement 17, which on its side is adapted to be effectively anchored to and buttressed against the line 10.
• the groove 20 can consequently allow a clip 15 to ride on the stop arrangement 17 without forming an abutment against the line 10 itself.
• annular groove 20 and the annular portion 19 an accurately adapted mounting of a clip 15 on the stop a:- -angement 17 can be ensured and at the same time an effective mutual buttressing ensured which can provide an effective transfer of force from a clip 15 to the stop arrangement 17 of the forces which necessarily arise in the connecting arrangement 12 during use.
• a clip 15 is shown, where the groove is milled or hollowed in another way from the sheet material of the clip 15. There is hereby obtained a smooth outer surface on a clip 15, but simultaneously a smaller wall thickness in the region of the groove 20. Below reference will be made to examples having reinforced walls in the region of the groove 20. •
• a second construction of a clip 15' is shown, where the groove 20' is produced by a deformation of the sheet material of the clip, without weakening a clip 15' .
• a clip 15' can have the same wall thickness at the end edges as at the middle, where the groove 20' is formed.
• a relatively small, low bead 21' is obtained on the outer side of a clip 15', as is shown in Fig. 5. Consequently the bead 21' can in addition serve to reinforce a clip 15' in its flexed annular use condition.
• a circular arcuate bead in Fig. 5, where a clip 15' is seen from the side and fastened in place in the use position on the line 10.
• a clip 15" is shown in side view, according to a third embodiment.
• Bead 21" of a clip 15" is shown having substantially the same height, as illustrated for bead 21' of a clip 15' in Fig. 5, but with signifi ⁇ cantly greater breadth.
• a clip 15" has besides the same breadth, as shown in Fig. 4, but with correspondingly shorter side flaps 21a" and 21b" at the side of the bead 21".
• the fastening eye 14' can be designed as is shown in Fig. 5 or the fastening eye 14" can be designed as is shown in Fig.
• FIG. 7 there is shown a cross-section of a clip 15" and an associated stop arrangement 17", according to a second embodiment, while in Fig. 8 there is correspond- ingly shown the stop arrangement 17", which is illustrated with an approximately rectangular cross-section.
• the stop arrangement 17" has, as is shown in Fig. 9, a circular ring form.
• three arrows A there are indicated schematically in Fig. 9 three clamp parts of a tool for jamming/deforming the stop arrangement 17" in place on the line 10.
• the tool (not shown further) can have three clamp jaws (illustrated by the arrows A) with a clamp portion corresponding to the depressions 22 which are shown on the peripheral portion of the stop arrangement 17'' in Fig. 7.
• the stop arrangement 17" is shown with an approximately trefoil-shaped annular cross-section.
• the stop arrangement 17" is fixed/deformed in place on the line 10 by means of the three depressions 22 illustrated.
• the stop arrangement 17" By designing the stop arrangement 17" with a substantially rectangular cross-section, one has the possibility of being able to deform the stop arrangement in a controlled manner and simultaneously ensure an effective supporting abutment via a relatively large support surface on the inner side of the stop arrangement at each of the deformed, inwardly directed projections 23 of the stop arrangement 17".
• a controlled deforming of the annular shape of the stop arrangement 17" to a substantially trefoil shape as shown in Fig. 7.
• a heart shape or kidney shape there can be employed substanti ⁇ ally a heart shape or kidney shape, two-leaf shape or four-leaf shape or like leaf shape. Consequently one has been able to ensure in a ready manner a sharply defined, wedge-shaped depression 22 on the outer side, but at the same time a uniform and relatively gently rounded pro ⁇ jection 23 on the inner side.
• a particularly gentle, but especially effective clamping engagement with the line 10 can hereby be achieved without the danger of damaging individual filaments of the line 10 and with a minimal possibility of moving the stop arrangement 17" relative to the line. This has appreciable significance on using the line at large ocean depths, where considerable tensile loadings can be transferred in the line and in addition large tensile forces in the snell 11 via a clip 15".
• a clip 15" can be moved a limited distance along the line 10 between the stop arrangements 17" and also be freely swung about the line 10 as required.
• another simpler clip 15''' is shown of initially an annular cord which is double-folded into a C shape about the line 10 to form two distinct bearing portions 15a''', 15b''' and two intermediate loops 15c'" (only the one is shown herein) .
• a clip 15' ' ' is pivotally mounted on the line 10 with the bearing portions 15a''' and 15b' ' ' arranged on each side of a common stop arrangement 17"' .
• the swivel 13 is hooked in place in a manner not shown further in the two mutually parallel loops 15c''', so that a clip 15''' can be retained on the line 10 by means of the swivel 13.

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