Patents Assigned to Hart Tackle Company, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4920688
    Abstract: A swivel jig fishing lure which includes a hard body having a protuberant, rounded lobe disposed on the bottom side of the body and having a rounded nose at the forward end thereof. The central part of the body, to which the downwardly extending lobe is affixed, tapers rearwardly through a reduced diameter neck portion of the body, and merges into a flared tail portion. The body carries a retrieving line eye at the upper side of the forward end thereof, and an eye for attaching a hook at the opposite side of the artificial lure. A buck tail is secured around the body at the neck portion thereof by means of an elastomeric band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Hart Tackle Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuck Devereaux, Joe D. Craig
  • Patent number: 4751789
    Abstract: A fishing lure which includes a heavy lure body having a protuberant belly portion and a constricted neck portion joining the belly portion to a slightly enlarged end. At the opposite end of the body from the slightly enlarged end is a retrieving line eye which is set into the opposite side of the body from the belly portion. A buck tail or skirt is secured to the body by a tie ring extending around the strands of the buck tail at the location of the constricted neck portion. An elongated worm impaling hook, having a barb at one end and an eye at the other, is connected to the body at the enlarged end. A flexible, resilient artificial worm is impaled on the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Hart Tackle Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuck Devereaux, Joe D. Craig
  • Patent number: D299265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Hart Tackle Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuck Devereaux, Joe D. Craig