(under subclass 4) Devices having at least one hook or hook-like device mounted on a base or supporting part in a nonhooking or housed position for movement relative thereto to hooking position and including means for causing the relative motion.
(1) Note. The motion causing means may comprise hooks biased to operative position and having catch or other releasable means holding the hook in inoperative position.
(2) Note. Hook apparatus including means and arrangements guarding against the catching or snagging of plant growth, rocks, etc., usually called "guarded" or "weedless" devices are classified below except when the apparatus includes means for moving a hook as defined above.
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15, for apparatus for automatically hooking fish, which apparatus does not depend on the structure of a hook to function.
42.1, for artificial bait lures made of flexible material for housing or protecting the hook and being compressible or collapsible to allow fish to be hooked upon taking the bait.
42.4+, for artificial bait lures having guarded or weedless hook arrangements, and see (2) Note above. 43.2+, for guarded and weedless hook arrangements and see (2) Note.
81, for impaling or smiting traps with swinging striker.
