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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2001
James M. Hair, III, Cheyenne, WY (US);
Daniel L. Greene, Cheyenne, WY (US);
Other;
Abstract
A fishing lure includes a shaft having a first end for connection to a line and a second end for connection to a hook. An outer body is provided on the shaft to conduct water through its hollow interior during retrieval while a gating component rotatably mounted on the shaft within the hollow interior repetitively interrupts or gates the flow of water in a way that produces low frequency vibrations. As an angler retrieves a line attached to the shaft, water flows into an outer body input port, through the hollow interior, and then out a plurality of outer body output ports located at a rearward end of the outer body. The gating component rotates on the shaft in response to that flow of water at a rate of rotation dependent on the rate of retrieval, acting to interrupt the flow of water through the outer body output ports multiple times for each revolution in order to thereby produce low frequency vibrations having a frequency expressed in Hertz greater than the rate of rotation expressed in revolutions per second. A preferred gating component takes the form of an impeller-driven inner body through which the water must flow. Inner body output ports move into and out of alignment with outer body output ports as the inner body rotates, doing so multiple times for each revolution.