| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
|---|
| 043056000 | Minnow buckets | 10 |
| 20080250697 | LIVE BAIT BUCKET AND METHODS OF USE - An improved bait bucket system for water and bait is provided in which bait can easily be emptied. The bucket includes a drainage door that has an open configuration and a closed configuration. When the drainage door is in its open configuration, water and bait inside the bucket system can be poured out through the drainage door without having to turn the bucket system fully upside down. When the drainage door is in its closed configuration, it preferably is substantially impermeable to passage of bait therethrough. The interior configuration of the bucket system can optionally provide a funneling effect that facilitates pouring bait and water from inside the bucket system out through the drainage door without such bait getting stuck behind any catch surface adjacent to the drainage door. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090188152 | Live bait keeper system - Described is a live bait keeper system having a housing. The housing has a plurality of housing holes defined at its bottom. A pump is situated in the interior of the housing. A power cord is attached to the pump, traveling from the housing for connection to a shore or dock-located power supply. A hose has a proximal end and a distal discharge end. The proximal end is attached to the pump and the discharge end is adapted to be placed in a livewell of a boat. A lid is utilized for the housing and has defined thereon a plurality of lid holes. A rope is attached to the handle of the housing, wherein the housing with the pump and the lid can be lowered and maintained within a body of water for pumping the water into the livewell. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20130042518 | Portable Live Bait Bucket - A portable live bait bucket with integral handle that has a floatable medium, a thumb grip, partially open top section with no lids, mechanisms or moving parts. The bait bucket is useable in any season and as a storage container to refrigerate unused bait. The container provides ease of mobility, storage, water changing and baits retrieval within a light compact synthetic resinous plastic unit. The bait water can be easily refreshed by sifting stale water through a plurality of holes in the upper chamber and then dipping fresh water from the water surface or submerging into an eight inch ice hole. Changing water is always a one-hand operation. The container is useable on the boat, shore, dock or ice house. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20160081319 | Minnow Container - A container for animals or objects in a liquid is disclosed. The container comprises a cylinder capped by two removable lids and a floating basket. When one of the lids is removed, the liquid may be drained and refreshed without either the basket or the contained animals or objects falling out. When the other lid is removed, the basket floats above the liquid and carries the animals or objects out of the liquid where they can be easily removed by a user. The container is useful to anglers who use live minnows as bait, but may be useful in several other applications. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160120162 | Insulated Container Jacket and Container System - A system for use with a container having a container lid. The system comprises a jacket further comprising insulated jacket sidewall surfaces shaped to surround one or more side surfaces of the container when the container is enclosed within the jacket, one or more attachment components affixed to an external surface of the one or more jacket sidewall surfaces, and a jacket lid for receiving therewithin the container lid, the jacket lid for affixing to the one more jacket sidewall surfaces to thereby close the container. | 05-05-2016 |
| 043057000 | Aerating pump | 5 |
| 20090064565 | Aerated bucket for live bait - A container for live bait is provided with a bait retrieval assembly of readily available structural components which are combined in an unexpectedly useful manner to allow all operations to be carried out using one hand only. The container, which is closed with a substantially rigid lid, may be of arbitrary cross-section but is preferably either cylindrical or tapered. The bait retrieval assembly includes an L-shaped frame comprising a pair of vertical members and a pair of horizontal members on which a bowl-shaped colander is supported. The vertical members are reciprocable through openings in the lid. The vertical members are required to be in mirror image relationship with one another, and laterally spaced-apart so that the distance between the longitudinal center lines of the members in the bottom portion of the L is less than the distance between longitudinal center lines of the members in the upper portion of the L. The critical wedge-shaped configuration of the vertical members of the L-shaped frame allows the colander, with the bait in it, to be temporarily locked in position, above or near the surface of the water for easy access with one hand. The container is preferably provided with an internal drain assembly and an aerator. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090172994 | Bait retrieval assembly in live well for off-shore boat - A live well for live bait is provided with a bait retrieval assembly of readily available structural components which are combined in an unexpectedly useful manner to allow all operations to be carried out using one hand only. The live well, which is typically closed with a substantially rigid cover, may be of arbitrary cross-section but is typically either cylindrical or rectangular, and in each case, tapered. The retrieval assembly includes a telescopable support member comprising plural telescopable cylinders; the innermost cylinder is capped and provided with a fastening means for a colander which is reciprocable on the support member. An electrically actuated fluid control system comprising a feed pump and valves pumps water into the support member and pressurizes it sufficiently to raise the innermost cylinder and the colander when a bait is to be selected. Flow of water to the support member is cut off when the colander is to be lowered into the well. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20140165451 | Hands-Free Bait Storage and Retrieval Apparatus - A hands-free bait storage and retrieval apparatus for use with a bucket having a continuous side wall defining an interior area and an open top includes a mounting frame having an upper ring and a plurality of mounting fasteners configured to selectively couple the upper ring to the bucket side wall such that the upper ring is situated in the bucket interior area and adjacent the open top thereof. A basket is selectively positioned in the bucket interior area. The apparatus includes a lifting assembly having a foot pedal and a linkage operatively coupling the foot pedal to the basket, the foot pedal being movable between a deployed configuration at which the basket is at a raised configuration within the bucket interior area and a released configuration at which the basket is at a lowered configuration within the bucket interior area. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150101238 | Live Bait Heater and Aerator - An apparatus with a submersed unit, an air pump, a switching-mode power supply, a power transmission cable, a multi-position selector switch, and an air hose is used to aerate and also heat a quantity of water that holds live bait used for fishing. The switching-mode power supply and the air pump are enclosed within a head unit housing which is plugged into a power source. The water containing the live bait is aerated through an aeration stone connected to the air pump through the air hose. When the water needs to be heated a temperature sensitive heating element heats the water. The supplied conditions are controlled by the multi-position selector switch. The temperature sensitive heating element is powered through the power transmission cable and contains a thermistor and a resistive wire. More specifically, when the thermistor detects a drop in temperature, the resistive wire converts electricity into heat. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160120163 | Bait Bucket with Self Priming Pump and Venturi - A bait bucket having inner and outer buckets with a mating frustoconical shape, or two chamber configuration with void between the two buckets or chambers, a self priming pump disposed in the void between the two buckets operably connected to a power source, the pump connected to a water source for pumping water into the inner bucket, a venturi hose with variable valve connected to the hose for drawing air for aerating the water before entry into the inner bucket, and an adjustable outlet drain in the inner bucket operably connected to a drain pipe that upon the water reaching a pre-determined height exits the inner bucket or chamber through an outlet port. The bait bucket may have external power and LED lights in the inner bucket and draw water through a filter and have external rod holder and a removable lid. | 05-05-2016 |
