Patents by Inventor Wayne Gathright

Wayne Gathright 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).

  • Method of casting lure and multi cavity mold therefor
    Patent number: 6532694
    Abstract: The method of molding a fishing lure having multiple circumferentially extending skirts comprised of whiskers, in a single action, and a novel mold for casting such a lure in which platens which are mirror images of one another are formed with pockets for receiving die blocks, each having formed thereon passages in the shape of half of the lure to be cast, the passages adapted to receive plasticized material, which when cooled defines the lure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Inventor: Wayne Gathright
  • Fishing lures
    Publication number: 20020129537
    Abstract: ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION A unitary fishing lure molded of soft polymeric material and having an elongate body to which a tail portion is attached, and having a skirt comprising a series of contiguously circumferentially spaced tentacles disposed on the body remote from the head thereof, and a second set of circumferentially spaced whiskers immediately behind the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Wayne Gathright, Bruce Johnson, Jim Stephenson, Danny A. Gulledge