Patents by Inventor Donald C. Volenec

Donald C. Volenec 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).

  • Patent number: 4283876
    Abstract: A fishing plug having internal flexible attracters, the plug having a hook carrying body with open space therein receiving elongated flexible attracters in an open space and adapted to flex as the plug is moved, the attracters being visible through transparent body portions, the body being incompletely filled with fluid for further causing movement, the attracters each being fixed at one end to the body for maintaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Inventor: Donald C. Volenec
  • Patent number: 4280296
    Abstract: A tandem fishhook comprising a forward hook and a rearward hook, the hooks each having two opposite sides connected by a curved portion, one of the sides having a barbed end, the other of the sides of each of the hooks defining an elongated shank extending in a direction opposite to the convex side of the curved portion, the shanks being alongside each other, means rigidly interconnecting the shanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Inventor: Donald C. Volenec