Abstract: A device for hauling in or paying out a fishing line carrying leaders fitted with fastenings in the form of pairs of loops through which the master line passes, includes moving leader storage units each comprising firstly a rectilinear tubular guide along the inside of which said master line passes while being hauled in or paid out, and along which the large loops of said fastenings slide either externally or internally, and secondly a rectilinear rail running parallel to said tubular guide and at a distance therefrom which is less than the length of said leaders and over which the hooks fitted to said leaders slide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for attaching a die to a package, which process utilizes a heat cycle in conjunction with a vacuum in the attachment process.

Abstract: An ultra-sonic welding machine has independently adjustable front and rear anvils. Each anvil is independently clampable at desired locations. The rear anvil is reciprocable under power to opened and closed positions relative to the front anvil to thereby permit easy insertion and withdrawal of a workpiece. The end positions of the rear anvil are positively controlled by an adjustable and clampable stop block. The invention further comprises a welding tip that has a concave working edge and relief pockets for improving the welded connection and reducing ultra-sonic energy losses.

Abstract: The combination of a tip-up and cover for a hole drilled through the ice for ice fishing which substantially insulates the hole to prevent ice accumulation and which, upon a fish striking the bait, provides a connective, releasable attachment to an alerting device such as a flag or other indicator. The unit consists of a hole cover of an insulating material of a size and configuration to be placed over a hole drilled through the ice with a signal or alerting device arranged on the upper surface thereof. The alerting device is removably attached to the cover and includes an actuating rod extending below the surface of the water to a line reel or spool which, upon rotation of the reel, due to a fish striking the bait, causes rotation of the rod and subsequent release of the alerting element. This signaling or alerting device includes a spring loaded flag which is captured and set when the bait is placed into the water and upon rotation of the reel releases the flag to signal that a fish is on the line.

Abstract: A line cutting apparatus includes a cutting tool and a mounting base separate from the tool. In the present embodiment, the mounting base is adapted for attachment to a fishing rod. The cutting tool and mounting base include interconnecting means for removably engaging the tool to the base. The cutting tool includes a tool housing that encloses a blade but defines limited access openings to expose portions of a blade cutting edge. Each opening is defined by a pair of lips projecting beyond the blade cutting edge and being spaced apart less than the length of the exposed edge. The tool housing also defines a receptacle for retaining a sharpening stone in alignment with the blade. The tool housing is shaped along its undersurface to provide a gap between the tool and mounting base. This gap enables the fishing rod and attached mounting base to flex without interference from the tool.

Abstract: An automatic fish catching device includes a support structure, a pole holding mechanism mounted near the top of the support structure and biased to place the pole in a generally vertical position, a triggering device which maintains the pole in a generally horizontal position and allows a fish to trigger the pole, an adjustment mechanism which allows the triggering device to be adjusted for the particular type of pole being used and for the type of fish to be caught and further allows adjustment of the tension necessary to overcome the triggering device, and an alarm mechanism which signals a fisherman that a fish has been caught. The pole is held down by the triggering mechanism until a fish pulls sufficiently on the triggering mechanism to release same at which time the pole is biased into a generally vertical position with a quick snap thereby pulling sharply the line associated with the pole and setting the hook on the line in the fish.

Abstract: An artificial fishing lure such as a fly is provided with ballast material. The fly includes a fish hook having a hook portion, a shank portion and an eye portion. The shank is encased by a chamber forming shell that extends circumferentially around the shank. the chamber is filled with a ballast material in the form of a liquid having a specific gravity greater than that of water. A core may be formed about the shank between the shank and the body forming shell. Various colorings, materials, tints and impregnations may be employed so that the lure simulates the exoskeleton and internal structure of an organism. The shell is preferably a vinyl tube wrapped around the shank from one end to the other to lend a segmented appearance to the shell.

Abstract: A sound producing fishing lure and method of making the lure having an elongated linear body secured at one end to a hook and at the other end to a blade support. The blade support has a pair of upwardly diverging arms attached to longitudinal rods. Blades rotatably supported on the rods have outer portions that intermittently contact each other to produce fish attracting sounds as the lure is retrieved in the water. The arms are bendable relative to each other to change the laterial positions of the blades and thereby alter sound producing characteristics of the lure. The body and blade support have interengaging side-by-side legs and body members that are clamped together with a stainless steel collar.

Abstract: A hunting decoy which may be either a single silhouette figure or a full three dimensional figure consisting of a number of assembled silhouette portions is manufactured of a flexible, thermoformable, closed-cell expanded polyethylene foam which is cross-linked by an irradiation process. The decoys are light in weight, collapsible, impervious to weather and life-like in appearance.

Abstract: A safety handle releasably drives a shaft which is also otherwise powered. The shaft has an axis of rotation and a peripheral engagement band. The safety handle has a frame including a bearing aperture receiving shaft so as to be freely rotatable on and relative to the shaft, a lever arm extending away from the bearing aperture, and pivot means laterally spaced from the aperture. Centering means resiliently bi-directionally biases the drive handle and engagement means towards the centralized position. When the drive handle is grasped and twisted around the handle axis, the engagement means is pivoted to engage the engagement band, enabling torque exerted on the drive handle relative to the shaft axis to turn the shaft, but when the twisting effort is released, the centering means returns the handle and the engagement means to the centralized position, thereby releasing the engagement means from the engagement band and freeing the safety handle for free rotation around and relative to the shaft.

Abstract: A baitless crayfish harvesting apparatus having a primary collection chamber, a plurality of passageways positioned is relation to the collection chamber, each of the passageways having an entrance door and an exit door, for luring a crayfish thereinto, and allowing the crayfish to travel in a single direction from outside of the collection chamber into the collection chamber during the harvesting of the crayfish.

Abstract: A pull-apart fishing weight with a separable head made of an elastomer resin and a weight member made of lead. The separable head contains two pins which are inserted in a friction fit into two aligned apertures in the weight member. When the pull-apart fishing weight becomes entangled in an underwater obstruction, force may be applied to the separable head through the fishing line allowing the separable head to detach from the weight member and thereby preventing the line from snapping and the resulting loss of fishing tackle.

Abstract: The animal trap features two shackles (1, 1a) produced from flat or iron rod, such shackles being situated opposite each other in plate hinges (4) and turnable therein about mutually offset pins (5, 5a) and maintained under tension by two springs (3) embodied as flat shank springs or screwed shank springs. Both hinge sheets (4) are separated from each other by means of a connecting web (15) that is produced from flat iron or shaped like a tube and that forms the medial longitudinal axis of the trap, upon which connecting web is borne in such a way as to be capable of movement a release mechanism having an element suitable for accepting bait (26), which release mechanism, when the trap is in the tensed position, acts with a shackle (1) in order to lock the trap in such a position.

Abstract: A fishing rod and handle assembly with a laterally offset foregrip and/or butt grip provided on the handle to enhance palming grip comfort and mechanical advantage in resisting leveraged upward rod forces acting on the handle. An inclined surface on the palming side of the foregrip, butt grip, or both, permits firmer gripping of the handle and reel in a palming grip position. The reel may also be laterally offset with respect to its rod attachment foot and with respect to the rod to further improve palming grip comfort and control.

Abstract: Method of bonding a chip to a Cu heat sink comprises depositing a layer of Ni upon the sink, depositing a layer of Pt over the NI, and thereafter annealing the sink in a partial vacuum containing a reducing gas. After the annealing step, a metallic wetting layer of Au and a layer of In are sequentially deposited upon the Pt, and the chip is soldered to the heat sink by means of a flux free soldering process. The pure Pt is very dense and stable, does not have microholes therein which would otherwise allow the Cu ions to penetrate the Pt. For a BeO heat sink, a Ti layer is deposited over the sink rather than Ni, and a layer of Pt is thereafter deposited over the Ti layer. The Ti, Pt and BeO interact to form a good bond of high thermal conductivity, which also blocks ion migration upwardly toward the solder and the electronic chip.

Abstract: A casting bench useful in casting limited quantities of articles includes a top base plate grooved longitudinally to receive opposed sliding cages each advanced by a corresponding first rack assembly. Each sliding cage, moreover, carries with it a corresponding second rack assembly useful in advancing lateral core plugs. Thus, exterior casting forms may be fixed to the sliding cages which then advance the cores for casting. The base plate may be releasably fixed to support legs and the whole structure may be disassembled for storage.

Abstract: A process of attachment of at least one rib on a pipe with a thin wall which comprises cutting a hole in the rib that corresponds closely to the outer diameter of the pipe; locating the rib on the outer surface of the pipe; pressurizing the interior of the pipe with a pressure sufficient to force the outer surface of the pipe into close relationship with the inner contour of the rib during or shortly before reaching the soldering temperature; attaching the rib to the pipe by soldering; and selecting the materials for the rib and pipe so that the linear thermal expansion coefficients allow a smaller gap between the pipe and the rib during soldering than when the pipe and rib are at room temperature.

Abstract: A cricket dispensing nozzle having a generally annular open end for communicating with the source of crickets. Four (4) resilient prongs emerge from the annular member and converge towards a dispensing opening in a continuous manner. Spaces between the four prongs permit insertion of a hook, both through that space and through the space below so that the hook may be passed through the cricket twice and the cricket removed from the nozzle without otherwise damaging the cricket.

Abstract: A balancing bracket with voids for fly casting tackle comprises a mount which is fixedly attached to a fly casting pole. A cantilever is integrally formed on the mount and extends therefrom in a direction which generally parallels the longitudinal axis of the pole. The cantilever is provided with means for selective fixed engagement with a fly casting reel at predetermined points along the cantilever.

Abstract: To alter the surface qualities of nonreactive materials, such as polypropylene and polyethylene in order to provide a means for bonding the plastic to metal, hard granular materials of oxides or carbides are partially impregnated into the surface of the plastic by application of heat and pressure so that granular edges remain exposed. Thereafter, a silver coating is applied over the impregnated plastic to interlock with the granules. The composite layered plastic then provides a means for soldering or bonding the plastic to a metallic coupling using either a bonding cement or a low temperature solder such as bismuth, lead, or tin based solder. Abrasion-resistant qualities also are improved by impregnating the internal surfaces of a plastic tube in order to improve its wear-resistance during transporting abrasive slurries of sand, coal, and the like.