Ice fishing apparatus

Claim 2

Ice fishing apparatus comprising a base member, pivot support means, a beam adapted to support a fishing line, and a pivot pin pivotally mounting said beam on said pivot support means, said base member comprising an upright member and a base, said upright member having an upper portion and openings formed in said upper portion, said pivot support means comprises a generally U-shaped body having arms which are received in interference fit in the openings in said upper portion of said upright member and which supports said pivot pin, whereby said pivot support means and thereby said pivot pin may be moved vertically with respect to said base by passage of said arms through the openings in said upper portion.

Claim 3

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said beam is balanced about said pivot pin and thereby maintained substantially horizontal.

Claim 4

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the center of gravity of said beam when supporting a fishing line and a fish fish-snaring device is located in a plane below the pivot pin

Claim 5

The apparatus of Claim 1 wherein the center of gravity of said beam when supporting a fishing line and a fish snaring device is located directly below said pivot pin.

Claim 6

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said beam includes a first two spaced-apart fishing line-holding means adapted to hold a plurality of elongated loops of fishing line extending therebetween and a second two spaced-apart fishing line holding means, the linear distance between said first two holding means being greater than the linear distance between said second two holding means, whereby the length of fishing line between said beam and a fish snaring device can be adjusted by relatively minor amendments by winding line from said first two holding means around said second two holding means.

Claim 7

Ice fishing apparatus comprising a base member, pivot support means, a beam adapted to support a fishing line, and a pivot pin pivotally mounting said beam on said pivot support means, said beam comprising an elongated portion, a head portion and a neck portion joining said elongated portion and said head portion at a position intermediate the ends of said elongated portions, said elongated portion including first arcuately shaped indentations constituting a first two-spaced-apart fishing line-holding means adapted to hold a plurality of elongated loops of fishing line extending therebetween, one of said indentations being located in said elongated portion and below said neck portion and the other at one extremity of said elongated portion and remote from said neck portion, said head portion including a plurality of spaced-apart openings suitable to receive said pivot pin, said neck portion constituting a second two-spaced-apart fishing line-holding means, the linear distance between said first two-holding means being greater than the linear distance between said second two-holding means, whereby the length of fishing line between said beam and fish-snaring device can be adjusted by relatively minor amounts by winding line from said first two-holding means around said second two-holding means.

Claim 8

Ice fishing apparatus comprising a base member, pivot support means, a beam adapted to support a fishing line, and a pivot pin pivotally mounting said beam on said pivot support means, said beam comprising an elongated portion, a head portion and a neck portion joining said elongated portion and said head portion at a position intermediate the ends of said elongated portions, said elongated portion including first arcuately shaped indentations constituting a first two-spaced-apart fishing line-holding means adapted to hold a plurality of elongated loops of fishing line extending therebetween, one of said indentations being located in said elongated portion and below said neck portion and the other at one extremity of said elongated portion and remote from said neck portion, said head portion including a plurality of spaced-apart openings suitable to receive said pivot pin, said neck portion constituting a second two-spaced-apart fishing line-holding means, the linear distance between said first two-holding means being greater than the linear distance between said second two-holding means, whereby the length of fishing line between said beam and fish-snaring device can be adjusted by relatively minor amounts by winding line from said first two-holding means around said second two-holding means.

Claim 9

The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said base member comprises an upright member supported by a base.

Claim 10

An assemblable and disassemblable ice fishing apparatus comprising a beam, three cooperating members which in the assembled form cooperate to provide an upright member adapted to support the said beam on which fishing line is received and a base member supporting said upright member, said three cooperating members consisting of a first elongated member having a base and upstanding end and sidewalls, a second elongated member having a base and upstanding sidewalls, one end wall and an open end, and a third elongated member having a base, upstanding sidewalls and one end wall and an open end, the combined length of the bases of said second and third members being coextensive with the base of said first member, the sidewalls of said second and third members being spaced apart the same distance and the sidewalls of said first member being spaced apart a distance slightly less than that of the walls of said second and third members, said second and third members being capable of being releasably joined together in a lengthwise direction adjacent their open ends when said apparatus is in the disassembled form whereby there is provided an elongated body having sidewalls and end walls and a base coextensive with said first member, said first member nesting with said body to provide, in said disassembled form, an elongated enclosure in which is received and enclosed said beam.

Claim 11

An assemblable and disassemblable ice fishing apparatus comprising a beam, three cooperating members which in the assembled form cooperate to provide an upright member adapted to support the said beam on which fishing line is received and a base member supporting said upright member, said three cooperating members consisting of a first elongated member having a base and upstanding end and sidewalls, a second elongated member having a base and upstanding sidewalls, one end wall and an open end, and a third elongated member having a base, upstanding sidewalls and one end wall and an open end, the combined length of the bases of said second and third members being coextensive with the base of said first member, the sidewalls of said second and third members being spaced apart the same distance and the sidewalls of said first member being spaced apart a distance slightly less than that of the walls of said second and third members, said second and third members being capable of being releasably joined together in a lengthwise direction adjacent their open ends when said apparatus is in the disassembled form whereby there is provided an elongated body having sidewalls and end walls and a base coextensive with said first member, said first member nesting with said body to provide, in said disassembled form, an elongated enclosure in which is received and enclosed said beam.

Claim 12

The apparatus of claim 8 wherein said second elongated member includes a wall parallel to said end wall of said second member and spaced therefrom a distance slightly greater than the height of both the side and end walls of said first elongated member, whereby one end portion of said first member is received within the space between said end wall of said second member and the wall parallel thereto and said first member upstands from said second memBer, said third elongated member cooperating with said first and second members to provide rigid support for said first member.

Claim 13

The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said third elongated member includes a tongue and said first member includes a groove in which said tongue may be received, the sidewalls of said third member nesting on the sidewalls of said second member when said tongue is received within said groove, said second member including means to prevent relative-lateral displacement of said second and third members, whereby there is provided a rigid support for said first member.

Claim 14

The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said first elongated member includes pivot support means movable longitudinally with respect thereto, said pivot support means being adapted to support means pivotally mounting thereon a beam on which fishing line is received.