Patent ID: 7454861
Filing Date: 2008-11-25
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A two-way pre-bite tension adjustment fishing line release and fish bite alarm apparatus in combination with a fishing reel carrying a fishing line, said two-way pre-bite tension adjustment fishing line release and fish bite alarm apparatus comprising: (a) a non-electrically conductive body having a front, a back, a top and a bottom; (b) a battery housed within said body; (c) an electrically energized auditory-visual alarm connected in circuit with said battery; (d) a non-electrically conductive two-way pre-bite fishing line tensioning mechanism; said two-way pre-bite fishing line tensioning mechanism including a rotatable tensioning screw mounted in rotatable engagement with said body proximate the top thereof, a thin elongated flat truncated U-shaped non-conductive tensioning lever-alarm activation member rotatably mounted to said tensioning screw, a thin flat non-conductive battery cover mounted on said top of said body directly under and in flush contact with said U-shaped tensioning lever-alarm activation member, said thin flat truncated U-shaped non-conductive tensioning lever-alarm activation member including an elongated fishing line contact portion of predetermined length and shape, and said thin flat truncated U-shaped lever-alarm activation member further including an alarm disabling wing portion, said fishing line being in a clamped position when in operative pre-bite position between said battery cover and said elongated fishing line contact portion of said lever-alarm activation member at a predetermined distance from said tensioning screw, (e) an electrical switch member including first and second metallic thin flat resilient electrically conductive strips, said second metallic thin flat resilient conductive strip in electrical circuit with one terminal of said battery, said first metallic thin flat resilient conductive strip connected in circuit at one end thereof with said electrically energized auditory-visual alarm, the other end of said first flat conductive strip extending above the top of said body and the other end of said first flat conductive strip moveable between an electrically conductive position in electrical contact with the other terminal of said battery and a non-electrically conductive position, said alarm disabling portion of said lever-alarm activation member, when said fishing line is in said clamped position, being in mechanical contact with said other end of said first metallic thin flat conductive strip to force said first resilient strip to the non-electrically conductive position, whereby upon a fish pulling on said fishing line, when in said operative pre-bite position, with a force sufficient to overcome the clamping force placed on said lever-alarm activation member by said tensioning screw as varied by a moment arm resulting from a distance said fishing line may be placed from said rotatable tensioning screw on said elongated fishing line contact portion of said thin flat U-shaped tensioning lever-alarm activation member, said tensioning screw, upon a fish biting said fishing line, will turn in a predetermined direction lowering a required tension to move said U-shaped tensioning lever-alarm activation member thereby allowing said fishing line to smoothly go from a clamped state to free spool, and said alarm disabling wing portion will release said first flat resilient conductive strip, thereby permitting said first conductive strip to contact the other terminal of said battery and energize said auditory-visual alarm in the electrically conductive position.