ASSEMBLY ON AN APPARATUS FOR HAULING IN AND WINDING UP A FISHING LINE WITH ATTACHED SNELLS

DISPOSITIF SUR MECANISME DE RAPPEL ET DE BOBINAGE D'UNE LIGNE DE PECHE GARNIE DE SES AVANCONS

English Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure.
An assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding
up a fishing line with attached snells and hooks, com-
prising a hook aligner, a hook guide and a driven drum
with hook magazines provided on one of the drum
flanges. The hook guide comprises a hook holder
which is slidably disposed on a rail ox the like and
which, by overcoming a counterforce from, e.g., a
tension spring, is moved along the rail by the snell,
one end of said rail being pivotally mounted and the
other end being arranged for movement from a hook-
receiver position to a hook-delivery position, the
assembly also including a pulley arranged in the
vicinity of the pivot point of the rail for guiding
the line back to, so that it may be coiled on, the
drum, the snell drawing the hook holder along with it
in the direction of the pulley and during this being
held taut, further that the snell after having passed
around the pulley permits the hook holder to be pulled
back along the rail by the tension spring, said rail
during the to-and-fro movement of the hook holder
pivoting toward the periphery of the drum flange, where
one of the hook trapping means provided on the
margin of the drum flange guides the hook onto one
of the hook magazines.

Claims

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property
or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. An assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding
up a fishing line with attached snells and hooks, comprising a
hook aligner, a hook guide and a driven drum with hook magazines
and hook trapping means provided on one of the drum flanges,
characterized in that the hook guide comprises a hook holder
which is slidably disposed on a rail and which is spring biased
opposite to the direction of the incoming line, one end of said
rail being pivotally mounted and the other end being arranged
for movement from a hook-receiver position to a hook-delivery
position, the assembly also including a pulley arranged in the
vicinity of the pivot point of the rail for guiding the line
back, so that it may be coiled on the drum, the snell drawing
the hook holder along with it in the direction of the incoming
line and during this being held taut, further that the snell
after having passed around the pulley permits the hook holder to
be pulled back along the rail by the spring bias, said rail
during the to-and-fro movement of the hook holder pivoting
toward the periphery of the drum flange, where one of the hook
trapping means provided on the margin of the drum flange guides
the hook onto one of the hook magazines.
2. An assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that
the hook holder has a guide pin for cooperation with a guide in
the form of a groove or cams in the frame of the line-hauling
mechanism, for pivoting the rail from the hook-receiver position
into the hook-delivery position during the movement of the hook
holder away from the hook aligner.

3. An assembly according to claim 2, characterized in that
the guide comprises a groove or a cam which cooperates with the
guide pin on the hook holder, formed so that when the hook has
been delivered, the hook holder travels further along the rail
to its hook-receiver position, causing the rail to pivot back to
its receiver position, so that the hook holder is ready to
capture the next hook.

Description

AN ASSEMBLY ON AN APPARATUS FOR HAULING IN AND
WINDING UP A FISHING LINE WITH ATTACHED SNELLS.
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The present invention relates to an assembly on an
apparatus for hauling in and coiling up a fishing line
with attached snells and hook.s.
The traditional way of fishing with lines in Norway
has been to bait the lines manually, store them in tubs,
and set the lines in the sea directly from the tubs.
This way of fishing, however, can no longer be practiced
today, as it requires both too much time and too many
personnel~ and thus is much to expensive.
Therefore, especially in the past twenty years or so,
a number of attempts have been made to automate both the
baiting and setting of fishing lines, as well as their
retrieval~
Norwegian Patent No. 104.806, for example, describes
an apparatus for setting and hauling in fishing lines,
the assembly comprising a reel or drum for winding and
unwinding the line as it is being pulled in and set outr
respectively, wherein hook magazines are provided,
evenly distributed about the circumference of the reel
which are intended to receive ths hooks as the line
is hauled in and wound around the reel, and wherein

the line, prior to passing onto the winding means,
passes a set of ~rushes which serve to clean the hooks
and straighten out the snells. In addition, this
patent describes special means for controlling the line
and attached hooks in such manner that the hooks are
brought into the correct position in relation to the
hook magazine.
Norwegian Patent No. 129.074 also describes a means for
continuous preparation of hook-carrying snells on a
fishing line.
Norwegian Patent No. 127.086 describes a methocl for
unwinding entanaled hook-carrying snells on a fishing
line by means of a rotatina magnetic field.
The assemblies in the prior art have not found wide
practical application, for the reason that they
either are unnecessarily complicated, are not reliable
enough, require too many personnel or too much space,
or are too expensive.
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According to the present invention there is provided an
assembly on an apparatus for hauling in and winding up a fishing
line with attached snells and hooks, comprising a hook aligner,
a hook guide and a driven drum with hook magazines and hook
trapping means provided on one of the drum flanges,
characterized in that the hook guide comprises a hook holder
which is slidably disposed on a rail and which is spring hiased
opposite to the direction of the incoming line, one end of said
rail being pivotally mounted and the o-ther end being arranged
for movement from a hook-receiver position to a hook-delivery
position, the assembly also including a pulley arranged in the
vicinity of the pivot point of the rail for guiding the line
back, so that it may be coiled on the drum, the snell drawing
the hook holder along with it in the direction of tne incom.ing
line and during this being held taut, further that the snell
after having passed around the pulley permits the hook holder to
be pulled back along the rail by the spring bias, said rail
during the to-and-fro movement of the hook holder pivoting
toward the periphery of the drum flange, where one of the hook
trapping means provided on the margin of the drum flange guides
the hook onto one of the hook magazines.
The invention will be further illustrated by the
accompanying drawing, wherein
FIGURE 1 is a schematic view of the asembly of the invention, in
side view, and
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FIGURE 2 shows the same assembly seen from above.
When the fishing line is being hauled in, the fish are
taken off the hooks and the line passes first through
a washing bin (not illustrated). In the latter, the
hooks are captured and are pulled by means of the
line 7 which passes over a pulley 6 into a hook aligner
10 .
In a manner known per se, the hook is then oriented
with the tip downward.
Following such orientation, the hook is drawn into a
hook guide with a spring-loaded hook holder 1. The
hook holder slides on a rail 3 which can be pivoted
in the horizontal plane about a point 4 adjacent the
end of the rail that is located downstream in the as-
sembly in relation to the direction of movement of
the line as it is being hauled in.
As the point of attachment of the snell 8 to the fishing
line 7 passes over the pulley 6, the snell passes beneath
the pulley. To ensure that this occurs in a satisfac-
tory manner, the lower flange of the pulley is provided
with grooves which capture the snell when the snell
forms an angle relative to the pulley.
After having passed around the pulley, the line is
wound onto a vertically-disposed drum 11. At this

point in time, the point of attachment for the snell
to the line has passed the pulley and the spring-loaded
hook holder 1 guides the hook with the snell held -taut
toward the lower flange of -the drum, which in a manner
known per se is provided with hook magazines.
At the same time as the point of attachment for the
snell on the line is guided toward, or perhaps is loca-
ted at, the pulley, the rail pivots from the hook-receiver
position ~3 (shown in phantom in Fig. 2) in alignment with the hook
aligner 10 into a hook-delivery position 5 for transferring the hook
to the hook magazines in the lower flange of the drum.
Here, the rail is locked by means of a locking mecha-
nism until the hook has been captured by saw-tooth-like
hook trap means 15 at the outer end of the hook magazines.
The hook holder thus stops at a definite point and at
such an angle that the trapping means on the hook
magazine can easily pluck the hook out of the hook
holder. This is obtained in that the hook holder is
provided with a guide pin 1~ on the underside thereo~
which follows a groove or a cam 14 in a fixed plate under-
neath it and thus pivots the rail in the manner indi-
cated above.
Owing to the angle of the hook magazine in relation to
the radius of the drum flange, the hook is drawn in-

wardly in the magazine.
By means of a suitable ~elease mechanism for the rail,the latter, owing to the hook holder's being retracted
by means of a spring bias 2, will pivot b~ into
the hook-receiver position at the same time as the
hook holder slides back into the starting position
in front of the hook aligner.
With the assembly of the invention, because everything
is "folded double", one obtains a great saving of
space, which is of great importance because it allows
the assembly of the invention to be installed even on
fishing boats which heretofo~e: have been too small
to accomodate such automated equipment.
The assembly of the invention is not complicated,
which renders it reasonable in cost and also reliable
in operation, and it is in addition easy to operate,
thus requiring fewer personnel.
In conjunction with a suitable baiting device, the
invention enables a fishing boat to operate with sub-
stantially fewer personnel, thus permitting much higher
efficiency and a much more economic fishing operation.