Patent ID: 7913443

Claim:
An audible fishing weight, comprising: a stem having an aperture at an upper end for connection to a fishing line; the stem connected to an anvil; a striker constrained for reciprocating linear motion relative to the anvil and stem between upper and lower limits of the motion; the striker and anvil adapted and arranged to produce fish-attractive sound when the striker contacts the anvil at the lower limit of the striker linear motion with respect to the anvil and stem; with the anvil having an upper planar face and the striker having a lower face with a planar annular wall, the annular wall of the striker lower face being parallel to the anvil upper face for full-contact striking impact of the striker lower face annular wall and the anvil upper face when the striker is at the lower limit of its linear motion with respect to the anvil and stem; with a spring located between the striker and the anvil to urge the striker away from the anvil, the spring having a spring rate permitting motion of the anvil and stem by the fishing line to overcome the force of the spring and allow contact of the striker and anvil; with the anvil and striker being cylindrical bodies, with the anvil and striker having outer cylindrical walls, and with the striker outer wall having an external diameter dimension smaller than an external diameter dimension of the anvil outer wall; with the striker having an upper face and a central passageway; the lower face of the striker having a chamfer wall extending from the outer wall of the striker to the annular wall, the annular wall extending to an inwardly-concave wall, and the inwardly-concave wall extending to a cylindrical spring recess section of the striker central passageway; the spring recess section of the striker central passageway extending to a planar spring recess end wall; the spring recess end wall extending to an internal cylindrical bearing wall of the striker central passageway, and the bearing wall extending to a retaining ring recess section of the striker central passageway; and the upper face of the striker having a chamfer wall extending from the outer wall of the striker to an upper planar annular wall, the upper planar annular wall extending to an upper inwardly-concave wall, and the upper inwardly-concave wall extending to the retaining ring recess section of the striker central passageway.