Magnetic Hook Riser Structure for Protecting 3D Hackle
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hackle features on fishing hooks are prone to damage when held or stored, as they can bend or break due to compression against surfaces or magnetic attraction, reducing their attractiveness to fish.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus comprising a riser with magnets on both ends or sides, allowing the hook with hackle to be secured to a surface without direct contact, preventing compression and damage, featuring various attachment methods such as holes, perforations, adhesive, studs, and clips.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the hook with hackle is held or stored on a surface or in a container, then the hook can be easily stored and accessed, but the hackle is damaged due to bouncing around and compression
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a riser as an intermediary component between the hook and the storage surface. The riser extends the hook away from the surface, preventing direct contact and compression of the hackle. This mediator allows the hook to be stored upright on its eye or bend rather than lying flat, eliminating the bouncing and compression that occurs when hooks are stored in containers or on surfaces.
2Strength
If the hook with hackle is attached to a magnetic plate, then the hook is securely held, but the hackle is compressed against the magnetic plate reducing its attractiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The riser serves as a mediator that separates the hook from the magnetic plate. By attaching the riser to the magnetic plate instead of the hook directly, the hackle is positioned away from the compression source. The riser's length and orientation ensure that the hackle protrudes in a direction away from the magnetic plate, preventing compression while maintaining secure holding through magnetic attraction of the riser to the plate.
Solution Approach 2:
The riser changes the spatial dimension of hook attachment. Instead of the hook lying flat against the magnetic plate (two-dimensional contact), the riser extends the hook into three-dimensional space, positioning it perpendicular to the plate surface. This dimensional change allows the magnetic plate to hold the riser securely while the hook and its hackle remain in a different spatial plane, avoiding compression.
3Shape
If the hackle is allowed to extend freely, then it maintains its three-dimensional attractive structure, but it is more susceptible to bending and breaking during handling and storage
Solution Approach 1:
The riser provides beforehand protection by positioning the hackle in a protected spatial configuration before damage can occur. By extending the hook away from surfaces and securing it in an upright position, the riser preemptively prevents the hackle from encountering compression or bending forces during storage and handling, cushioning it from potential damage before it happens.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus effectively protects hackle features from damage during storage and handling, maintaining their three-dimensional structure and attractiveness, thus extending the usability of hooks with hackle in fishing.
Implementation Method 1
Because of the magnetic nature of the hook or other feature to which the hackle is attached, for example, the hook with hackle is attached to a magnetic plate
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus comprising a base and a plurality of risers. The apparatus used to hold, secure, or store fishing hooks with hackle so that the hackle is not damaged by being compressed against an adjacent surface. The plurality of risers are magnetic in order that each riser can attract hooks so that each hook can extend out from the riser, thus protecting the hackle from adjacent surfaces, and each riser can be attached to the surface such that the riser extends out from the surface.