Patent Application
20210022328
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The disclosure and prior art relates to fishing equipments and more particularly pertains to a new fishing equipment for creating a fishing rod out of a branch or stick.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a reel holder apparatus, a reel, and a plurality of eyelet apparatuses. The reel holder apparatus comprises a semi-cylindrical holder body having an outer surface, an inner surface, a top edge, a bottom edge, a right edge, and a left edge. The holder body has a reel opening extending from the outer surface through the inner surface. A pair of holder clamps is coupled to the holder body. Each of the pair of holder clamps has a holder clamp strap extending from the right edge to the left edge and a holder clamp adjustment mechanism coupled to the holder clamp strap to tighten and alternatively loosen the holder clamp strap. The pair of holder clamp straps is configured to secure the holder body to a branch or a stick. The reel is selectively engageable within the reel opening of the holder body. The plurality of eyelet apparatuses each comprises an eyelet clamp having an eyelet clamp strap and an eyelet clamp adjustment mechanism coupled to the eyelet clamp strap to tighten and alternatively loosen the eyelet clamp strap. The eyelet clamp is configured to selectively engage the branch or the stick. An attachment arm is coupled to the eyelet clamp strap and an eyelet is coupled to the attachment arm. The reel is configured to secure a fishing line and the plurality of eyelet apparatuses is configured to receive the fishing line through each eyelet.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The reel 14 may be a nautical type reel 55 or another type of standard fishing reel including, but not limited to, a spinning wheel 57, a baitcasting reel, a spincast reel, or the like. The reel 14 has a rectangular foot 58, an extension portion 60 coupled to the rectangular foot 58, and a cleat 62 coupled to the extension portion 60. The foot 58 is selectively engageable within the reel opening 34 of the holder body 20. The extension portion 60 has a pair of concave sides 64 and the cleat 62 is ellipsoidal.
Each of the plurality of eyelet apparatuses 16 comprises an eyelet clamp 68 having an eyelet clamp strap 70 and an eyelet clamp adjustment mechanism 71 coupled to the eyelet clamp strap 70 to tighten and alternatively loosen the eyelet clamp strap 70. Each of the eyelet clamps 68 may be a fly nut clamp with the eyelet clamp strap 70 having a pair of eyelet slotted portions 72 and a medial eyelet smooth portion 74 between the pair of eyelet slotted portions 72. Each of the eyelet clamp adjustment mechanisms 71 has an eyelet clamp housing 76 and an eyelet fly nut 78 coupled to the eyelet clamp housing 76. The eyelet clamp 68 is configured to selectively engage the branch 52 or the stick. A plurality of eyelet grip spikes 80 is coupled to an eyelet inner face 82 of each eyelet clamp. The plurality of eyelet grip spikes 80 may comprise two eyelet grip spikes 80 coupled to the eyelet smooth portion 74 and one eyelet grip spike 80 coupled to the eyelet clamp housing 76. An attachment arm 84 is coupled to the eyelet smooth portion 74 of the eyelet clamp strap and an eyelet 86 is coupled to the attachment arm 84. The plurality of eyelet apparatuses 16 may comprising a pair of large eyelet apparatuses 88, a pair of medium eyelet apparatuses 90, and a set of three small eyelet apparatuses 92. The attachment arm 84 of each of the large eyelet apparatuses 88 and each of the medium eyelet apparatuses 90 comprises a pair of arms 94. The pair of arms 94 is arranged such that a distance between the pair of arms increases from the eyelet clamp 68 to the eyelet 86.
The reel 14 is configured to secure a fishing line 96 and the plurality of eyelet apparatuses 16 is configured to receive the fishing line 96 through each eyelet 86. The carrying pouch 18 has a cinch loop 98 and a carabiner 100 coupled to the cinch loop 98. The carrying pouch 18 selectively receives the reel holder apparatus 12, the reel 14, and the plurality of eyelet apparatuses 16.
In use, the reel 14 is engaged within the reel opening 34 of the holder body 20 and the holder clamps 40 are engaged to the branch 52. The eyelet clamp 68 of each of the eyelet apparatuses 16 is engaged to the branch 52 and the fishing line 96 is fed from the reel 14 through each eyelet 86. Bait, weights, lures or the like are attached to the fishing line 96 and the assembly 10 is used with the branch 52 as a traditional fishing pole.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
