Appeal No. 2005-1246 Page 5
Application No. 09/776,147
loosely toward the bill, as indicated at 11. The material 10 which is lapped or massed
about the shank is colored and secured in place by a lapping of a fine metal strip 12
having spaced coils and being of a different color to that of the body forming mass 10.
From the end of the body there projects a colored tail feather 13, which is secured
to the shank by the strip 12.
Massie's invention is directed to an electro-acoustical fishing lure. Massie
teaches that fish sense, and are attracted to, sources of electric fields and sonic fields in
their water habitat. One object of Massie's invention was to utilize the electrode
potential of metals used in a fishing lure to radiate electric waves in the water habitat of
the fish and to simultaneously produce acoustical waves in the water. Figures 1 and 2
show an electro-acoustical fishing lure 1 having fluttering electro-acoustical fishing lure
electrodes 6 and 7 configured to produce a fluttering movement when suspended
parallel to a fixed electrode 5. The fish-hook assembly 2 and 3 is shown attached to
one end of the fixed electrode by ring 4. The fluttering electrodes are attached to the
fixed electrode by insulator fitting 9 by rings 8, and the electrodes are attached to the
insulator by rivets 10. Massie teaches the fluttering electrodes can be made from
copper and the fixed electrode can be made from zinc.
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