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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1984
Donn B Furlong, Snohomish, WA (US);
Marine Construction & Design Co., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Method or apparatus for unwinding gangions from a longline fishing line by first wrapping all of the gangions in a first direction about the longline and thereafter unwrapping them to leave them relatively free from the longline. Wrapping and unwrapping can be accomplished by running the longline through a series of hollow cylinders having permanent magnets mounted on the interior surface. The cylinders are rotated in opposite directions. As the gangions enter the first of the cylinders, the hooks are attracted to the magnets in the rotating cylinders and are rotated about the longline so as to wind all of the gangions in a common direction. Thereafter, the hooks are attracted to the magnets in the second cylinder, which is rotating in the opposite direction, thereby unwinding the gangions. In this manner, regardless of the original wrap of the gangions about the longline, each can be completely unwrapped and left dangling from the longline.