Patent Application
20200344990
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The disclosure and prior art relates to fishing weights and more particularly pertains to a new fishing weight assisting in casting fishing line and then detaching from the line in an eco-friendly manner.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shell body having an outside surface and an inside surface. The inside surface forms an inner cavity. An eyelet is coupled to the outside surface of the shell body and has an eyelet aperture extending therethrough. The eyelet is configured to receive a fishing line through the eyelet aperture. A fill is coupled within the inner cavity. The shell body and the eyelet are water soluble and configured to dissolve once the fishing line has been cast into the water to release the fishing line and the fill.
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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An eyelet 20 is coupled to the shell body 12. The eyelet 20 is annular and coupled to the outside surface 14. The eyelet 20 has an eyelet aperture 22 extending therethrough. The eyelet 20 may have a pair of joining fillets 24 extending to be between 60° and 120° apart on the eyelet 20 with a perimeter of each of the joining fillets 24 being between 30° and 90°. The pair of joining fillets 24 provide increased contact area and more structural integrity. The eyelet 20 is configured to receive a fishing line through the eyelet aperture 22. The eyelet 20 lies in a plane perpendicular to a tangent plane of the outer surface 14 to facilitate feeding of the fishing line through the eyelet aperture 22.
A fill 26 is coupled to the shell body 12 within the inner cavity 18. The fill 26 is granular and may entirely occupy the inner cavity in order to maximize density of the weight 10. The shell body 12 and the eyelet 20 are gelatinous and water soluble and are configured. The fill 26 is either a natural or a biodegradable material. The fill 26 may be natural sand.
In use, the fishing line is threaded through the eyelet aperture 22 and tied to secure the weight 10. The fishing line is also attached to a float lure or other baiting configuration that is designed to float at the surface of the water. The weight 10 provides added casting distance, but once cast into the water the eyelet 20 and the shell body 12 dissolve, releasing the fishing line and the fill 26. The float lure may then perform as intended and the natural or biodegradable fill 26 enters the water in a harmless and environmentally conscious manner.
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.
