IP Library › Granted Patent US 10,925,268
Granted Patent B1
US 10,925,268 · App. 14/657,376 · Granted Feb 23, 2021

Inside corner cubic surface reflector fishing lure

Inventor: Ray D. Flasco (Akron, OH)
A01K85/01A01K85/00A01K85/10A01K85/14A01K85/16
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Patent No.
US 10,925,268
App. No.
14/657,376
Granted
Feb 23, 2021
Kind
B1
Abstract

Fishing tackle including, weights, sinkers, floats, bobbers, soft bait (plastic and rubber lures) hard bait lures, spinners, spoons and jigs incorporating cubic corner reflector for enhancing and reflecting fluid pressure waves generated by game fish with the reflected and enhanced pressure waves attracting the attention of the target fish and enticing it to strike at the lure.

Claims (19)

1. A fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors, comprising:

a body;

an eyelet connected to said body and configured to be secured to a fishing line;

one or more fish hooks directly or indirectly connected to said body;

one or more cubic corner reflectors that are recessed into said body and exposed to an ambient environment and are externally visible therefrom, each of said one or more cubic corner reflectors consisting of three adjoining planar surfaces recessed fully or partially into said body and oriented perpendicular to each other so that said three adjoining planar surfaces meet at a vertex directed inwardly into said body, said one or more cubic corner reflectors being configured to reflect an incoming fluid pressure wave received from a direction back in substantially a same direction from which the pressure wave was received.

2. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said body is a molded rubber bait secured to said one or more fish hooks.

3. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said fishing lure is a spoon lure.

4. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said fishing lure is a spinner lure.

5. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said fishing lure is a jig lure.

6. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more cubic corner reflectors comprise a single corner reflector.

7. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more cubic corner reflectors form a cluster of cubic corner reflectors.

8. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more cubic corner reflectors form a cluster of conjoined cubic corner reflectors.

9. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 8 , wherein said cluster of conjoined cubic corner reflectors encompass a substantially central region of said body.

10. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 8 , wherein said cluster of conjoined cubic corner reflectors operates to reflect and enhance fluid pressure waves received from a moving fish thereby enlarging a sensed profile of said fishing lure for the moving fish and increasing a probability of the moving fish striking said fishing lure.

11. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 8 , wherein each said conjoined cubic corner reflector is conjoined with 1 to 6 adjacent cubic corner reflectors of said cluster of conjoined cubic corner reflectors.

12. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 1 , wherein said fishing lure has a first side and a second side and at least one of said first and second sides of said fishing lure comprises said one or more cubic corner reflectors.

13. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 12 , wherein said at least one of said first and second sides of said fishing lure comprises said one or more cubic corner reflectors further comprising two or more cubic corner reflectors forming a cluster of cubic corner reflectors.

14. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 13 , wherein said at least one of said first and second sides of said fishing lure comprises said two or more cubic corner reflectors forming a cluster of conjoined cubic corner reflectors.

15. The fishing lure having one or more cubic corner reflectors according to claim 14 , wherein each of said two or more cubic corner reflectors on said at least one of said first and second sides of said fishing lure is conjoined with 1 to 6 adjacent cubic corner reflectors of said one or more cubic corner reflectors of the cluster of conjoined cubic corner reflectors.

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