Fishing Line Guide Device with Perpendicular Cylinder

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing guide devices for fishing lines fail to effectively prevent snags and fish loss during the reeling process, particularly when encountering obstructions like boat undersides, submerged logs, or rocks.

Innovation Solution

A guide device comprising a rod with nested sections and a perpendicular cylinder that allows the user to position the fishing line between the fishing pole and the hooked fish, guiding the line away from obstructions by sliding over the cylinder, which is rotationally coupled between perpendicularly extending bars.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a traditional fishing line guide device is used, then the device structure is simple, but the fishing line cannot be effectively guided away from obstructions causing snags and fish loss

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprevention of snags and fish lossVSAvoidguide device structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A cylindrical guide component is introduced as an intermediary element between the fishing line and obstructions. The cylinder has a recess that receives the fishing line, creating a controlled passage that directs the line away from potential snags while maintaining a relatively simple overall device structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide device extends in a direction perpendicular to the rod axis, adding a spatial dimension for line guidance. This perpendicular extension creates a three-dimensional guidance path that effectively routes the fishing line away from obstructions in the horizontal plane.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Productivity

If the fishing line is reeled in close to obstructions, then the reeling speed is fast, but the line becomes tangled or breaks due to contact with obstructions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereeling speedVSAvoidline tangling and breaking from obstruction contact

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The cylindrical guide with its recess acts as a mediator between the fishing line and obstructions. It provides a protected pathway that allows the line to be reeled in at high speed while preventing direct contact with obstructions, thus eliminating tangling and breaking hazards.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide device is positioned in advance along the fishing line path to preemptively redirect the line away from potential obstructions before contact can occur. This preliminary guidance action prevents harmful interactions rather than reacting to them after they occur.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10959417B2Fishing line guide device

Publication Date: 2021.03.30 HISEL SR STEVEN DALE

AI summary

A fishing line guide device for preventing snags and fish loss includes a rod and a cylinder. The cylinder is coupled to a bottom of the rod so that the cylinder is perpendicular to the rod. The rod is configured to be grasped in hands of a user, positioning the user to position the cylinder on a fishing line between a fishing pole and a hooked fish. The user is positioned to guide the line away from an obstruction as a fisherman reels in the line with the line sliding over the cylinder.