Tube fastener, snaplock for hook-snood on a line for long-line fishing--along with method and apparatus to change automatically broken snoods

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention concerns fastening a hook snood 6 with an endless line 1 and includes a method and apparatus for the mechanical automatic changing of broken hook snoods 6 when long-line fishing, a so called addendum apparatus. In general, the fastening 4,14 consists of an oblong tube 4 of pliant material openable to grasp around the line 1 and, closeable with a locking mechanism 11,12,13. The tube forms a kind of a snap 4, which is clasped on the line 1 and locked with a hitch lock 9,11,12,13. The tube 4 can turn around the line 1. Underneath it there is a bobbin comprising a cylinder 14 fastened to the line 1 having on its ends fixed hindrances or shoulders 3 which prevent movement on the …