US4336087A
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Method of marking fishing lines
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1981-03-30
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Granted: 1982-06-22
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Expires: 2001-03-30
Abstract
Abstract A process of marking fly fishing lines includes the steps of selecting a heat shrinkable tubing having predetermined shrinking temperature characteristics and marking the tubing with a size coding positioned to allow the marks to be cut off to indicate any of a range of fishing line sizes or weights. The tubing is then cut to form small sections with the marking thereon and may then further be cut to remove marks to indicate one size. The tubing is slipped onto a fly fishing line and immersed in a heated liquid, such as water, or water having salt added thereto, to shrink the tubing onto the fishing line without damaging the fishing line.
Inventors
- 👤 Leon L. Martuch
- 👤 Michael L. Martuch
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 23:52
CPC Classifications
A; A01; A01K; A01K91/00; B; B29; B29C; B29C63/00; B29C63/38; B29C63/42; G; G09; G09F; G09F3/00; G09F3/08; G09F3/18; G09F3/20; G09F3/205
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
91 words
A method of marking fishing lines comprising the steps of: selecting heat shrinkable tubing; marking said heat shrinkable tubing with a plurality of size code marks; cutting said marked, heat shrinkable tubing between said marks thereon to leave at least one mark on one piece of cut tubing indicating a fishing line size; slipping said marked and cut heat shrinkable tubing onto a fishing line of the size indicated by the marks thereon; and shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto said fishing line, whereby a fishing line is marked for size.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
91 words
A method of marking fishing lines comprising the steps of: selecting heat shrinkable tubing; marking said heat shrinkable tubing with a plurality of size code marks; cutting said marked, heat shrinkable tubing between said marks thereon to leave at least one mark on one piece of cut tubing indicating a fishing line size; slipping said marked and cut heat shrinkable tubing onto a fishing line of the size indicated by the marks thereon; and shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto said fishing line, whereby a fishing line is marked for size.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
79 words
A method of marking fishing lines comprising the steps of: selecting heat shrinkable tubing; marking said heat shrinkable tubing with a size code; cutting said marked, heat shrinkable tubing; slipping said marked and cut heat shrinkable tubing onto a fishing line; and shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto said fishing line by heating a liquid and immersing said heat shrinkable tubing slipped on a fishing line into said heating liquid to thereby shrink said tubing onto said fishing line.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
79 words
A method of marking fishing lines comprising the steps of: selecting heat shrinkable tubing; marking said heat shrinkable tubing with a size code; cutting said marked, heat shrinkable tubing; slipping said marked and cut heat shrinkable tubing onto a fishing line; and shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto said fishing line by heating a liquid and immersing said heat shrinkable tubing slipped on a fishing line into said heating liquid to thereby shrink said tubing onto said fishing line.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
52 words
A method in accordance with claim 1, in which said step of shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto said fishing line includes a step of heating a liquid and immersing said heat shrinkable tubing slipped on a fishing line into said heated liquid to thereby shrink said tubing onto said fishing line.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method in accordance with claim 2, in which said step of shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto a fishing line includes immersing said heat shrinkable tubing into heated water.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
41 words
A method in accordance with claim 4 or 2, in which the step of shrinking said heat shrinkable tubing onto a fishing line includes immersing said heat shrinkable tubing on a fishing line into heated water having table salt dissolved therein.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
57 words
A method in accordance with claim 1, in which the step of marking said heat shrinkable tubing includes marking said tubing with two large marks and four small marks positioned so that cutting one end of a piece of tubing removes small marks and cutting the other end at predetermined position removes one or two large marks.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
36 words
A method in accordance with claim 6, in which the step of cutting said marked heat shrinkable tubing includes cutting a predetermined number of small and large marks to indicate line sizes from four to fourteen.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method in accordance with claim 1, in which the step of selecting heat shrinkable tubing indicates selecting a heat shrinkable flexible polyolefin heat shrinkable tubing.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method in accordance with claim 1, in which the step of marking said heat shrinkable tubing includes marking said tubing with a powdered carbon and heating said carbon to fuse said powdered carbon on said tubing.
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