Fishing lure line attachment system

William Fox, New Richmond, OH (US)

USPTO: us-12648549 · published 2026-06-09 · patents · A01K 85/1867· A01K 85/024· A01K 85/16

Fishing lure line attachment system

William Fox, New Richmond, OH (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-06-10 15:32 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01K 85/1867A01K 85/024A01K 85/16

keywords fishing lureknotless line attachmentthreaded couplingradial grippersline clampingfishing equipmentknotless lure

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The pith

A fishing lure secures the line without a knot by screwing the nose to the tail and clamping it with radial grippers.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The patent presents a fishing lure with separable nose and tail sections that assemble along a longitudinal axis. A groove in the tail guides the line from a funnel to a gap between the sections, where radial grippers on the nose clamp the line when the threaded coupling tightens the parts together. The design also routes the line through a proximal opening in the nose and allows it to wrap around the tail near the wings or fins upon exit. A sympathetic reader would care because the mechanism removes the step of tying knots while still directing and holding the line in place. The claim rests on the threaded draw and gripper action achieving secure attachment without additional fasteners.

Core claim

The lure achieves knotless line attachment through a nose portion and tail portion joined by mating threaded structures that draw the nose toward the tail, routing the line via a proximal opening and funnel into a groove that exits at the resulting gap, where radial grippers on the nose engage and clamp the line while the line can also wrap around the tail center section adjacent to the wings or fins.

What carries the argument

Threaded coupling mechanism between nose and tail portions that draws them together to activate radial grippers clamping the line at the gap.

If this is right

The line enters through the nose opening and follows the groove without needing manual knotting.
Tightening the threads forces the radial grippers to clamp the line between the nose and tail.
The line exiting the gap can wrap around the tail center section near the wings or fins for additional positioning.
The entire assembly occurs along the longitudinal axis using only the mating threads and grippers.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Users could change lures more quickly by unscrewing rather than untying knots.
The clamp might distribute force more evenly than a knot and reduce localized line wear.
The same nose-tail clamping principle could apply to other terminal tackle items such as swivels or weights.

Load-bearing premise

The threaded coupling, groove, and radial grippers will keep the fishing line clamped securely under tension, water exposure, and movement without slipping or releasing.

What would settle it

Pulling the assembled lure on a taut fishing line with force matching a hooked fish and checking whether the line slips free of the grippers or gap.

read the original abstract

1 . A fishing lure for knotless line attachment, comprising: a nose portion and a tail portion configured to be assembled together along a longitudinal axis of the lure; a funnel formed in the tail portion; a groove extending within the tail portion from the funnel to a gap that is formed between the nose portion and the tail portion when the nose portion and the tail portion are assembled, the groove being configured to receive a fishing line extending from the funnel to the gap; a coupling mechanism between the nose portion and the tail portion, the coupling mechanism including mating threaded structures on the nose portion and the tail portion and being adapted to secure the fishing line in the lure without requiring a knot by drawing the nose portion toward the tail portion; a proximal opening in the nose portion sized and positioned to receive the fishing line and direct the fishing line toward the funnel in the tail portion; one or more wings or fins projecting outwardly from a center section of the tail portion and positioned such that, when the fishing line exits the gap between the nose portion and the tail portion, at least a portion of the fishing line is configured to be wrapped around the center section of the tail portion adjacent the one or more wings or fins; and a plurality of radial grippers on the nose portion positioned adjacent the gap and configured such that, when the nose portion is rotated and tightened against the tail portion by the coupling mechanism, the radial grippers engage and clamp at least a portion of the fishing line between the nose portion and the tail portion without requiring a knot in the fishing line.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a US patent describing a two-part threaded fishing lure with a funnel, groove, and radial grippers for knotless line attachment, but it supplies no test data or prior-art comparison.

read the letter

This patent lays out a mechanical design for attaching fishing line to a lure without a knot. The nose and tail sections thread together, a funnel and groove guide the line into a gap, and radial grippers on the nose clamp the line when the parts are tightened. The line can also wrap around the center section near the fins. The description walks through the parts and their intended interaction in a direct way that makes the claimed function easy to picture from the text alone.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript describes a fishing lure for knotless line attachment, comprising a nose portion and a tail portion assembled via a threaded coupling. Key features include a funnel and groove in the tail for line routing, a proximal opening in the nose, wings or fins on the tail, and radial grippers on the nose that clamp the line when tightened, securing it without a knot.

Significance. If operational as described, this design provides an innovative mechanical approach to attaching fishing line without knots, potentially offering advantages in simplicity and security. The patent-style description is self-contained and free of ad-hoc parameters or circular reasoning.

minor comments (1)

[ABSTRACT] ABSTRACT: the description is presented as a single long compound sentence (beginning with '1 . A fishing lure...'); splitting into shorter sentences would improve clarity and readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript, confirmation of its self-contained nature, and recommendation to accept. No major comments were provided for response.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a US patent application whose central claim is a mechanical design for knotless line attachment via threaded coupling, funnel, groove, gap, radial grippers, and fins. It contains no equations, derivations, predictions, fitted parameters, or self-citations of theorems. The description is a direct enumeration of physical components and their assembly, self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing step that reduces to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is a mechanical device patent with no scientific free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the description relies on standard engineering components such as threads and grippers.

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