Patent ID: 8641401
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A combination scoop and mold press comprising: an arm member incorporating a live hinge in a center thereof, said live hinge dividing said arm member into two half arm members; and a pair of cup-shaped half-mold members attached to opposite ends of said arm member and; wherein said arm member and said half-mold members are a single monolithic unit, and said half-mold members engage one another in mirror image alignment to form a generally enclosed mold when said arm member is flexed at the live hinge and the half-mold members are urged toward one another; wherein at least one of said cup-shaped half-mold members is equipped with a slit on an engaging peripheral edge thereof through which a shank of a fish hook, or a line tied to a fish hook projects when a barbed portion of a fish hook is positioned within the generally enclosed mold; wherein at least one of the half arm member is equipped with at least one protrusion about midway between a cup-shaped half-mold member and said live hinge, said at least one protrusion configured to prevent said half-mold members from engaging one another in mirror image alignment until each half-arm member is flexed into a bowed configuration by a squeezing force exerted on both half-mold members; and wherein a resilience of each of the half-arm members, when in said bowed configuration, causes each of the half-arm members to return to an unbowed configuration when said squeezing force is released, thereby springing open the half-mold members and releasing a dough bait ball formed therebetween.