Title: Cable hardware

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1. In cable hardware for use with trolling apparatus for fishing, an apparatus to prevent kinking of the line which extends through an opening in a bushing comprising

a hollow sleeve carried by the line and having one end thereof of larger cross section than the opening in said bushing,

said sleeve having an opening therethrough from which the line extends at one end,

a connector within said opening at the other end of said sleeve to which said line is connected,

said connector including a loop of larger size than said opening for attachment of tackle, and

a pin mounted transversely at said other end of said sleeve, for engagement through said loop for preventing disengagement of said loop from said sleeve.

2. The apparatus defined in claim 1 in which said one end of said hollow sleeve is rounded.

3. The apparatus defined in claim 1 in which said sleeve has side wall openings in side wall portions thereof for flushing said opening.

4. The apparatus defined in claim 1 in which said sleeve is made of synthetic plastic material.

Other info:

Inventors: Henze, Walter J. (North Wildwood, NJ, US)
Purcell, William (Philadelphia, PA, US)

Application Number: 036366
Filing Date: 1979-05-07
Publication_date: 1980-08-05
Assignee: Penn Fishing Tackle Mfg. Co. (Philadelphia, PA)
Primary Class(es): 43/27.4 43/43.1, 43/44.9
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

171890	Jan, 1876	Wagner	43/43.
1333318	Mar, 1920	Kijima	43/42.
3507070	Apr, 1970	Rossello	43/42.
3947990	Apr, 1976	Johnson	43/44.
3961438	Jun, 1976	Henze et al.	43/43.
3967405	Jul, 1976	Henze et al.	43/27.
4167829	Sep, 1979	Henze et al.	43/24.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Godici, Nicholas P.
Assistant Examiner: Olszewski, Robert P.
Attorney: Wobensmith, 2nd; Zachary T., Wobensmith, III; Zachary T.