Patents by Inventor Lawrence J. Gonnello

Lawrence J. Gonnello has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Non-freeze tip up
    Patent number: 5448850
    Abstract: In this apparatus for ice fishing, an upright grease tube is extendable through a hole in the ice. A trio of equispaced legs, pivotally mounted at their upper extremities, is mounted upon a circular sleeve. The legs circumscribe the grease tube and are slidably related relative thereto for spanning the ice hole in the extended position and are slidable lengthwise of the grease tube for spanning the ice surface when the grease tube is withdrawn. Apertured end caps at the opposite ends of the grease tube retain a charge of grease therewithin. An operating rod is extendable through the grease tube and the end caps and outboard thereof at each end of the grease tube. A reel support projects from and is secured relative to the grease tube. A payout reel is rotatively mounted on the reel support for reeling a fish line. A projection extends outwardly from the inboard face of the payout reel and contacts the operating rod as the reel is rotated upon the pull of a fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Michael Toomey
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Gonnello
  • Signalling means for use in fishing through the ice
    Patent number: 5107614
    Abstract: A device for use in ice fishing including means for paying out a line so that, upon the hooking of a fish, the line is swayed so as to effect a rotative motion in a horizontal plate to a reel and a reel support. The rotative motion releases a signalling device from a ready-to-operate position to an operative signaling position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Gonnello
  • Ice fishing device
    Patent number: 4228609
    Abstract: A device for use in fishing through the ice including means for paying out a line without such appreciable force being required as would scare off a fish which starts to nibble at the line and for suddenly bringing pay out to an abrupt halt so that continued nibbling will cause the line and the other equipment supported by a reel support rod extended through the ice to rotate transversely to that reel support rod to the point in its arc whereat the line and other supported equipment is suddenly jerked upwardly in a fish-snaring movement, allowing the catching of the fish on the line, the device including an actuating handle which also serves as a signal to be simultaneously raised upwardly into operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Gonnello
  • Adjustable fishing pole support and tip-up
    Patent number: D452551
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Gonnello