Patents Assigned to Smithwick Lures, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4999942
    Abstract: A fishing lure which has a tapered, elongated body provided with a retrieving line eye at its forward end, and a hook at the rear end. The body is of generally frustoconical configuration over about the forward two-thirds of the body. The rear one-third of the body is of generally frustoellipsoidal configuration. The body carries a second hook suspended from the bottom of the body at a location slightly more than half way from the rear end to the forward end. The body is circular in transverse cross-section at all points over its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Smithwick Lures, Inc.
    Inventor: Blake Gills
  • Patent number: 4457096
    Abstract: A fishing lure including a hook having an eye, a point and a shank extending from the eye to the point, with the eye, shank and point lying substantially in a common plane, a pair of divergent legs, each having a proximal end connected to the hook at a location substantially in the common plane and extending away from the hook at an acute angle to the common plane and defining an acute angle between such legs. Each leg defines an obtuse angle with the hook shank and extends away from the point, and each leg has a distal end connected to a toe which extends substantially parallel to said common plane. Each toe is bent from the line of the respective leg axis toward the point of the hook to define an obtuse angle with the leg axis. The legs are weighted near their ends, and the hook shank has a bucktail or the like affixed thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Smithwick Lures, Inc.
    Inventor: John J. Wasson
  • Patent number: D271322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Smithwick Lures, Inc.
    Inventor: John J. Wasson