GB2564173A

GB2564173A - Fish bait dispenser

Info

Publication number: GB2564173A
Application number: GB1802577.5A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Leighton Medway David; Vaughan Rees Nicholas
Original assignee: Bvg Group Ltd
Current assignee: Bvg Group Ltd
Priority date: 2017-03-28
Filing date: 2018-02-16
Publication date: 2019-01-09
Anticipated expiration: 2038-02-16
Also published as: GB201704927D0; GB201802577D0; WO2018178611A1; GB2564173B; GB201714385D0; GB2561033A

Abstract

A castable fish bait dispenser 25 comprises an openable hollow housing (16a, 16b, figure 2) for containing fish bait to be dispensed, the housing being at least partially biased to an open position for receiving bait to be cast and subsequently released, the dispenser having a latch mechanism (4, 5 & 17, 19, figures 1-3) for closing the housing against the opening bias, the bait dispenser including catch means 26, 28 including a fixed catch member 26 for temporarily connecting a casting line 33 to the housing, the latch mechanism being operable by a trigger 34 to release the bait upon release of the catch means, the trigger being operable to release the latch mechanism via the casting line, directly or indirectly, after casting of the dispenser over or into a target area being fished. The catch means may include a temporary catch means 28 having a leading piece of fishing line 29 having a stop member 32, the leading piece of fishing line slidably extending through a trailing part 30 of the trigger.

Description

Various ways are known to dispense fish bait into areas of water i

According to the invention there is provided a castable fish bait 'Ji :l· m means casting of the dispenser over or into a target area being fished.

etrieved the angler. This has the considerable advantag

released via the latch trigger by a tug on the fishing line before the bait dispenser is retrieved for re-use. I π either event, the area being fished can remain largely undisturbed.

The temporary catch means may conveniently comprise or include a short leading piece of fishing line or other type of flexible line having a stop member at one end, the lead line slidably extending through a traiing part of the trigger mechanism, such as an eye, lhe other end of the lead line being secured to a common catch member, the common catch member bei on the housing, which may conveniently be in the form a barbless hook from which common catch member can

become easilv

of the iead One can bo chosen to ensure that after separation of the

connection between the casting One and the dispenser via the, now

3d' and associated iatch such that when the bait dispenser reaches a contained within the dispenser housing. The iatch mechanism may means such as hook formations, one end of the bait dispenser and the i® casting One remote from the rearward end of the bait dispenser. When the hook formations are temporarily connected together they prevent accidental release of the fii’ while the dispenser is airborne and tension in the casting line adjacent of the actuator rod and includes a stop member at one end of the lead of the lead line being connected to a common catch means, such as transfers tension directly between in during flight of the bait dispenser and hence releasing the bait over a

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T invention in its open cond the invention shewn in Figure 2 in its closed condition,

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In order to prevent the latch 4 from becoming acoidentally from the keeper plate 5 to become disengaq * ί 'W -.sj?

point is reached, say 30 metres, thereby ensuring that the bait is ® orbwr ^Fe ths water so that splash-down occurs when it is away from the ν'®.· s bait dispenser 1 reaches the target area,, whereafter the main ide minimal disturbance to the area being g two housing halves 16a, 16b, .*y (flwl to

I'M am or so is J (Ο includes in this instance a catch r

Also attached to the ring 28 Is the otherwise free end of a casting <υ διό dispenser 25 and associated lead line 29 in the direction arrowed.

Figure 8 shows an ini (StmwF te position towards the end of the from the op* . «Λ.

Figure 10 shows the final stage of the casting process in which '10 to the maximum exfc he acti

As will be appreciated, the desired position at which the fish bait is released can be pre-set by the angler adjusting the operation of the fishing reel 35 to prevent or limit the amount of fishing line being 20 unwound such that the fish bait can be dispensed automatically as • 4 casting line to a st:

as its thickness, pliabHity a surface smoothness may be chosen to sort particular circumstances,

line is restored and the trigger mechanism can be activated by a tug er Hick from the fishing rod or by the sudden stop of the casting hue as it is unwound from the reel if a reel stop is being used. However, it will 5 be understood that shorter or longer lengths of lead line may be used

Although three embodiments of the invention have been described it whI be apparent that they are illustrative only of .io arrangements by which bait can be oast and released while still airborne or after splash-down when it has moved to a desired release site and although the mechanism for achieving this is preferably through the use of a latch mechanisms operable by the tog of a fishing line, the latch mechanism could instead operate via a remote RF link

ω to ensure safe retrie’ he dispenser after use.

an open position by spring means (3) for receiving bait to be oast and subsequently released, the dispenser having a latch mechanism (4,5 or 17,19) for closing the housing against the opening bias, the dispenser including catch means (W, 11 & 12 or 22 & 23 or 26 & 28) either directly or indirectly, and trigger means (4, 5 & 8 or 17, 18 & 20

Claims

• 5 2. A fish bait dispenser according to Claim 1 FURTHER

CHARACTERISED IN BEING aerodynamioally shaped and in the form of an aerial bomb (1, 15 or 25) with stabilising fins (27).

piece of fishing through a trailing part (30) c

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fixed catch member (26) on the housing, from which ths common

5? S mechanism includes an eye (30).

tel dispenser according to Claim 3 FURTHER

CHARACTERISED IN THAT the common cs

CHARACTERISED IN THAT the fixed catch means is in

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nh water being fished, the actuator rod can be tugged via the fishing line

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FURTHER CHARACTERISED IN THAT the latch means includes a

CHARACTERISED IN THAT the latch mechanism includes a biased to prevent opening of the dispenser until the bolt is withdra

FURTHER CHARACTERISED IN THAT the lead line (29) is the actuator rod (8, 20) and includes a stop member (32) at one en of the lead line preventing disengageme :ed to a common catch respective common and fixed catch means cooperating to allow