US PATENT SUBCLASS 43 / 43.2
.~.~.~ Guards, e.g., weedless hooks

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43 /   HD   FISHING, TRAPPING, AND VERMIN DESTROYING

4  DF  FISHING {25}
43.1  DF  .~ Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs {12}
43.16  DF  .~.~ Hooks {5}
43.2.~.~.~ Guards, e.g., weedless hooks {2}
43.4  DF  .~.~.~.~> Shiftable, collapsible, or line-operated
43.6  DF  .~.~.~.~> Hook closing

DEFINITION

Classification: 43/43.2

(under subclass 43.16) Fishing hooks with means and arrangements guarding against the catching or snagging of weeds, marine plant growth, submerged logs, etc., constituted, for example, by single and multiple wire elements preceding or adjacent to the hooks and arrangements of multiple hooks to guard each other.

(1) Note. Certain of these are known as "weedless", hooks.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

25.2, for rod attached hook holders which guard the point of the hook when not in use.

35, for trap-hooks which act as guards.

42.1, for flexible bait body hook guarding means.

42.4+, for artificial baits combined with guards. 43.15, for plural diverse separately attached members one being a hook and the other a nonuse guard.

57.1+, for guards or like elements to house an individual hook or fishing fly when not in use.