Patent Application
20240276962
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The disclosure relates to fishhook baiters and more particularly pertains to a new fishhook baiter for facilitating baiting gelatinous bait.
The prior art relates to fishhook baiters and includes a variety of fishhook baiters having a housing to hold fish bait. Known prior art does not adequately form non-solid fishing bait into a compressed mass that further facilitates the engagement of the mass with a fishhook.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing enclosing an interior space and having an interior surface and an exterior surface. The housing is elongated from a first end to a second end, wherein the first and second ends are open. A bait form is mounted to the housing and is configured for compressing a portion of a gelatinous bait to form a compacted bait mass. A hook slot extends through the first end of the housing and through the exterior surface and the interior surface of the housing to facilitate hooking the bait mass on a fishook.
Another embodiment of the disclosure includes comprises a method including the steps of extending a mold outwardly of a housing and into gelatinous bait to capture and compress a portion of the gelatinous bait into a compacted bait mass. The mold is retracted inwardly of the housing and a fishing hook is positioned such that the fishing hook extends into the housing and is directed toward the compacted bait mass. The mold extends toward the fishing hook to engage the compacted bait mass with the fishing hook and the compacted bait mass is removed from the mold with the fishing hook, wherein the compacted bait mass is retained on the fishing hook.
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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A bait form 28 is mounted to the housing 12 and is configured for compressing a portion of the gelatinous bait 26 to form a compacted bait mass 30. The bait form 28 normally includes a press 32 being slidably positioned within the interior space 14 of the housing 12. The press 32 is elongated from a primary end 34 to a secondary end 36, wherein the primary end 34 and the secondary end 36 are each extendable outwardly from the housing 12. The primary end 34 of the press 32 is positioned proximate to the first end 20 of the housing 12, wherein the primary end 34 of the press 32 is insertable within gelatinous bait 26. A mold 38 is formed within the primary end 34 of the press 32 and is configured to compress the portion of gelatinous bait 26 within the mold 38 to define the compacted bait mass 30 removably positioned within the mold 38. The mold 38 is normally concavely shaped. The compacted bait mass 30 formed within the mold 38 will typically have a semispherical shape including a bottom surface 40 and a curved surface 42. A radius 44 measures from a center point 46 of the bottom surface 40 of the compacted bait mass 30 to the curved surface 42 of the compacted bait mass 30. The radius 44 may be from 0.25 inches to 0.75 inches, wherein the radius 40 is typically 0.50 inches.
A stop 48 is coupled to the press 32 and releasably holds the press 32 in a fixed position relative to the housing 12. The stop 48 is movable to release the press 32 from the fixed position relative to the housing 12. The stop 48 may comprise a rod 50 being coupled to the press 32 and extending outwardly therefrom. The stop 48 is slidably positioned within a path slot 52 extending through the exterior surface 18 and the interior surface 16 of the housing 12. The path slot 52 normally includes a first section 54, a second section 56, and a center section 58. The first 54 and second 56 sections each are orientated parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing 12 extending through the first 20 and second 22 ends. The first section 54 is normally positioned nearer to the first end 20 than the second section 56. The first 54 and second 56 sections are laterally offset from each other and the center section 58 extends between the first 54 and second 56 sections to form a shoulder relative to the second end 22 of the housing 12. The primary end 34 of the press 32 is typically extended from the first end 20 of the housing 12 when the rod 50 is positioned within the first section 54 of the path slot 52. The primary end 34 of the press 32 is typically positioned within the interior space 14 of the housing 12 when the rod 50 is positioned within the second section 56 of the path slot 52. The primary end 34 is normally flush to the edge 24 of the first end 20 of the housing 12 when the rod 50 is positioned within the center section 58 of the path slot 52.
A seal 60 is positioned on and may be coupled to the interior surface 16 of the housing 12 and abuts an exterior surface 18 of the press 32 to inhibit the gelatinous bait 26 from moving between the interior surface 16 of the housing 12 and an outer surface 62 of the press 32 within the interior space 14. The seal 60 is typically positioned nearer to the first end 20 of the housing 12 than the second end 22. The seal 60 may comprise an O-ring or any other conventional seal 60 capable of blocking the gelatinous bait 26 from moving between the housing 12 and the press 32.
A hook slot 64 extends through the first end 20 of the housing 12 and through the exterior surface 18 and the interior surface 16 of the housing 12. The hook slot 64 is configured to receive a fishing hook 66 such that a bend of a fishing hook 66 is removably positioning in the hook slot 64 and a point of the fishing hook 66 is extended into the second end 22 of the housing 12, wherein the point of the fishing hook 66 is insertable into the compacted bait mass 30 formed within the mold 38 when the mold 38 is urged toward the fishing hook 66. The fishing hook 66 is typically positioned within the hook slot 64 when the primary end 34 of the press 32 is positioned within the interior space 14 of the housing 12 or when the primary end 34 is flush with the edge 24 of the first end 20 of the housing 12. The primary end 34 of the press 32 may be extended outwardly from the housing 12 after the fishing hook 66 has been positioned within the hook slot 64 to facilitate inserting the point of the fishing hook 66 into the compacted bait mass 30.
In use, the mold 38 extends outwardly of the housing 12 and into gelatinous bait 26 to capture and compress the portion of the gelatinous bait 26 into the compacted bait mass 30. The mold 38 is retracted inwardly towards the housing 12 and the fishing hook 66 is positioned within the hook slot 64 such that the fishing hook 66 extends into the housing 12 and is directed toward the compacted bait mass 30. The mold 38 extends toward the fishing hook 66 to engage the compacted bait mass 30 with the fishing hook 66. The compacted bait mass 30 is removed from the mold 38 with the fishing hook 66, wherein the compacted bait mass 30 is retained on the fishing hook 66.
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.
