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Artificial fish lure and method of making same
Assignee: RICHARD E COOK
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Filing: 1968-10-21
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Granted: 1971-05-25
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Expires: 1988-10-21
Abstract
Abstract Artificial fish lures, such as simulated bait fish eggs, characterized by a substantially homogeneous body form, either as single spheres or as fused clusters. A typical formulation involves highly plasticized polyvinyl chloride resin with a cured Shore-A-Durometer hardness of 3-10, and with fish-attracting odorant and plasticizer, such as salmon oil, dispersed throughout each spherical egg and continually forming a milky emulsion at the surface when the egg is exposed to water. A typical method of forming the simulated eggs comprises introducing unfused plastisol into a hot liquid bath of a regulated specific gravity so that each plastisol droplet enters the bath and drops toward the bottom of the bath until its temperature increases sufficiently to lower its specific gravity whereupon each droplet rises to the surface of the bath as a substantially spherical body. The spherical bodies are then removed and cooled, either singly or as clusters.
Inventors
- 👤 Vernon B Orn
- 👤 Richard E Cook
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 08:28
CPC Classifications
A; A01; A01K; A01K85/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
61 words
An artificial fish lure comprising a fused resin body having a fish-attracting material dispersed uniformly throughout, said fish-attracting material continuously migrating to the surface of said body, said lure being characterized by the fish-attracting material constituting a substantial proportion of the plasticizer for the resin, and being present in the amount of at least 5 percent by weight of the lure.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
61 words
An artificial fish lure comprising a fused resin body having a fish-attracting material dispersed uniformly throughout, said fish-attracting material continuously migrating to the surface of said body, said lure being characterized by the fish-attracting material constituting a substantial proportion of the plasticizer for the resin, and being present in the amount of at least 5 percent by weight of the lure.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
23 words
The fish lure defined by claim 1, wherein said body is in the form of fish eggs and said material is salmon oil.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
The fish lure defined by claim 1, wherein said body is in the form of fish eggs and said material is herring oil.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
53 words
An artificial fish egg or fish egg cluster simulating lure or the like, comprising a fused resin body having an oily, fish-attracting plasticizing material for the resin uniformly dispersed throughout the body, said lure being characterized by the fish-attracting and plasticizing material making up at least 5 percent by weight of the lure.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
53 words
An artificial fish egg or fish egg cluster simulating lure or the like, comprising a fused resin body having an oily, fish-attracting plasticizing material for the resin uniformly dispersed throughout the body, said lure being characterized by the fish-attracting and plasticizing material making up at least 5 percent by weight of the lure.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
27 words
The artificial lure defined by claim 4, wherein said fish attracting material ''''spews'''' to a ''''milky'''' emulsion at the surface of the body when exposed to water.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
40 words
The artificial lure defined by claim 4, wherein said fish attracting material includes an odorant that migrates to the surface of the body as the odorant already at the surface is emulsified in the water during use of the lure.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
32 words
The fish lure defined by claim 4, wherein said resinous body includes a fused thermoplastic and said odorant is thermally diffused therein, said resinous body having a Shore-A-Durometer hardness from about 3-10.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
18 words
The fish lure defined by claim 4, further including a fluroscent dye substantially uniformly dispersed throughout the body.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
18 words
The fish lure defined by claim 6, further including a flurorescent dye substantially uniformly dispersed throughout the body.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
31 words
The fish lure defined by claim 4, wherein said resinous body includes a plurality of substantially spherical resinous bodies fused together in the form of a part of a fish skein.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
31 words
The fish lure defined by claim 9, wherein said resinous body includes a plurality of substantially spherical resinous bodies fused together in the form of a part of a fish skein.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
23 words
The fish lure defined by claim 4, wherein said resinous body comprises highly plasticized polyvinyl chloride resin having high slip and permanence characteristics.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
23 words
The fish lure defined by claim 9, wherein said resinous body comprises highly plasticized polyvinyl chloride resin having high slip and permanence characteristics.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
17 words
The fish lure defined by claim 4, wherein said fish-attracting material at least principally comprises salmon oil.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
14 words
The fish lure defined by claim 4, wherein said fish-attracting material includes herring oil.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
90 words
An artificial fish egg lure comprising a plurality of generally spherical, thermoplastic bodies of a fish-attracting color, each in fused contact with at least one other such body, and each having a relative constituency of about 15-30 weight percent resin and about 70-85 weight percent plasticizer, with a Shore-A-Durometer Hardness from about 3-10, said lure being characterized by the presence of natural fish oil making up at least about 5 percent by weight of the lure and functioning as a plasticizer for the resin and also as a fish attractant.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
90 words
An artificial fish egg lure comprising a plurality of generally spherical, thermoplastic bodies of a fish-attracting color, each in fused contact with at least one other such body, and each having a relative constituency of about 15-30 weight percent resin and about 70-85 weight percent plasticizer, with a Shore-A-Durometer Hardness from about 3-10, said lure being characterized by the presence of natural fish oil making up at least about 5 percent by weight of the lure and functioning as a plasticizer for the resin and also as a fish attractant.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
14 words
The fish egg lure defined by claim 16, wherein said harness is about 5-6.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
15 words
The fish egg lure defined by claim 16, wherein said plasticizer includes a fish-attracting odorant.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
21 words
The fish egg lure defined by claim 18, wherein said color includes a fish-attracting fluorescent dye uniformly dispersed throughout each body.
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