FISHING HOOK PROTECTOR

Abstract: A device adapted to protect a fishing hook against entangling in ropes, other hooks or the like, which along two parallelly extending edges of a sheet formed portion (1) comprises a channel formed portion (2 and 3, respectively) adapted to receive the leg (4) and the curved point (5), respectively, of a fishing hook.

Description: Fishing hook protector. The present invention relates to a protector, guard, for a fishing hook, the purpose of which primarily is to prevent that the hook be entangled in ropes, other hooks or the like, but is also to protect the hook from causing damage. Such protection is of particular importance in long line fishing, wherein several thousand hooks are, connected to the individual line and wherein such line, prior to the baiting and setting is stored on a drum or on rails with all the hooks freely suspended, or in a bin. According to the invention the fishing hook protector com¬ prises, along each of two parallelly extending edges of a sheet formed portion, a channel formed portion which is adapted to receive the leg and the curved point, respectively, of a fishing hook. In such a shape of the protector, one channel formed portion may be placed around the hook leg, while the hook point, by displacement of the protector along the hook leg is passed into protected position in the second channel formed portion, the hook being also easily released by displacement of the protector along the hook leg or by tearing. Hereby the protector may be produced in a very simple manner, such as by extrusion succeeded by a cutting off of a length of plastic material of the desired section. Thus, the channel formed portion which is to receive the hook leg may be made with a claw formed section having resilient walls and a slot opening in desired direction, while the portion which is to receive the hook point is made with a V-formed, U-formed or annular section. The invention is to be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, which is a perspective view. partly in section of a fishing hook protector in a preferred embodimen . In the drawing. Figure 1 is a view of a protector*. Figure 2 is a view of such a protector in position on a fishing hook, and Figure 3 is a sectional view of the channel formed portion which is adapted to receive a hook leg. In the drawing, 1 is a sheet formed portion which, along two parallelly extending edges passes into an open, channel formed portion 2 of claw shaped section and an open portion 3 of essentially V formed t section, respectively. The protector may, preferably, be made of extruded, relatively soft plastic material and may be a cut off length of an extruded string, so that the channel 2 may easily be placed on and kept on the leg 4 of a fishing hook, at the same time as the channel 3 encloses the curved part 5 of the fishing hook. In order to prevent that the protector be entangled in ropes or other hooks, it is convenient to give ths sheet formed middle portion the shape of a rhombus, the free edges 6 slanting towards the two channels, as shown in Fig. 1. Such protection is of particular importance in long line fish¬ ing, in which hooks by thousands are connected to the individual line and wherein the line, prior to baiting and setting is stored on a drum or on rails with all the hooks freely sus¬ pended, or in a bin.

Claims: CLAIMS 1. A fishing hook protector, c h a r a c t e r i s e d i n that the same, along each r of two parallelly extending edges of a sheet formed portion (1) is provided with a channel formed portion (2 and 3, respectively) adapted to receive the leg (4) and the curved point (5) , respectively of a fishing hook. 2. A fishing hook protector as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i s e d i n that the channel formed portion (2) which is adapted to receive a hook leg (4) is made with a claw formed section having resilient walls, while the portion (3) which is adapted to receive the hook point (5) is made with a V-formed section. 3. A fishing hook protector as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i s e d i n that the channel formed portion (2) which is adapted to receive a hook leg (4) is made with a claw formed section having resilient walls, while the portion (3) which is adapted to receive the hook point (5) is made with a U-formed section. 4. A fishing hook protector as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i s e d i n that the channel formed portion (2) which is adapted to receive a hook leg (4) is made with a claw formed section having resilient walls, while the portion (3) which is adapted to receive the hook point (5) is made with an annular section. 5. A fishing hook protector as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i s e d i n that it is constituted by e length of ribbon formed material.

Inventors: BJOERSHOL KOLBJOERN, BJOERSHOL, KOLBJOERN
Applicants: BJORSHOL KOLBJORN, BJOERSHOL, KOLBJOERN
Application year: 1983
Main classification: A01K83
IPC codes: A01K83, A01K91, A01K97