Patent ID: 11484019

Abstract:
A system for closing a gap associated with an opening in a floor of an ice fishing structure. The system may include an ice hole sleeve for removably positioning in the opening of the floor to extend down toward an upper ice surface. The ice hole sleeve has a top with an upper sleeve opening and a bottom with a lower sleeve opening. The ice hole sleeve includes a sleeve wall for extending through the opening of the floor and downwardly from the floor. The sleeve wall has a sleeve inward face and a sleeve outward face on opposite sides of the sleeve wall. The system may further include a gap closing device having a tubular configuration with an endless circumference and being positioned on the sleeve outward face of the ice hole sleeve to facilitate closure of a gap associated with the opening in the floor. The gap closing device may be resiliently compressible and stretchable in a circumferential direction to increase a circumferential length of the device.