Patent ID: 6050020
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A fishing pole holder comprising:a base plate;two pivotally adjustable support legs pivotally attached to a front of the base plate with wing nut assemblies;a recoil spring attachment structure formed in connection with a back edge of the base plate;a left rod holding support extending upwardly from a top surface of the base plate and provided with a closed bottomed cylinder shaped pivot pin receiving cavity;a right rod holding support extending upwardly from the top surface of the base plate and including a locking pin passageway entirely therethrough in concentric axial alignment with the open end of the closed bottomed cylinder shaped pivot pin receiving cavity, the right rod holding support adjacent to the locking pin passageway having a shift-lock tab keyway formed therein in connection with the locking pin passageway along the length thereof;a fishing rod handle holder including a tubular rod handle receiving portion in connection with a pivot pin receiving portion having a recoil spring attachment arm extending therefrom and that is sized to fit between the left and right rod holding supports, the pivot pin receiving portion including a rod holder pivot pin passageway formed entirely therethrough that is simultaneously concentrically axially alignable with both the locking pin passageway of the right rod holding support and the open end of the closed bottomed cylinder shaped pivot pin receiving cavity of the left rod holding support and that has a pivot portion shift-lock keyway formed therein on a side which faces the right rod holding support;a recoil spring attached between the recoil spring attachment arm and the recoil spring attachment structure such that the recoil spring is fully extended when the pivot portion shift-lock keyway of the pivot pin receiving portion is aligned with the shift-lock tab keyway of the right rod holder support;a pivot pin having a spring biased shift-lock button having a shift-lock key provided at one end thereof that is positionable through the concentrically axially aligned rod holder pivot pin passageway, the locking pin passageway and the open end of the closed bottomed cylinder shaped pivot pin receiving cavity of the left rod holding support;the spring biased shift lock button being compressible such that a first portion of the shift-lock key is in the pivot portion shift-lock keyway of the pivot pin receiving portion and a second portion is in the shift-lock tab keyway of the right rod holding support when the pivot portion shift-lock keyway of the pivot pin receiving portion is aligned with the shift-lock tab keyway of the right rod holding support and is held in place by a biasing force from the extended recoil spring; andwherein a triggering force of sufficient magnitude on the fishing rod handle holder in a direction opposing the biasing force of the recoil spring causing the first portion of the shift-lock key to be forced from the pivot portion shift-lock keyway freeing the fishing rod holder to rapidly recoil under spring force from the recoil spring to supply a hook setting action to a fishing pole having a handle positioned within the tubular rod handle receiving portion.