An Improvement or Improvements in Fishing Rods.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in Fishing Rods.
We FRANK WYERS, and CHARLES WYERS both of South Street, Redditch
in the County of Worcester, Fishing Tackle Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :—
Our invention has reference principally to fishing rods made of reed or cane,
such as the reed known in commerce as Spanish reed and the cane known as
Roseau cane, but it may also be applied to fishing rods made of other reed or cane
and to fishing rods made of wood.
We will describe our invention as applied to a fishing rod made of reed
or cane.
Our invention consists in treating the lengths of cane or reed of which the
fishing rod is made in the manner hereinafter described whereby increased strength
is given to the fishing rod without materially increasing its weight and without
materially impairing its flexibility.
We take the required length of reed or cane and fill or pack the hollow joints
or depressions or inequalities in its external surface, with paper, tow or other filling
material so as to give to the reed or cane a continuous, smooth and even external
surface, that is, a surface free as possible from irregularities. We next take a
strip or tape of silk, cotton or other woven material of the required length and coat
one side of it with glue or other adhesive material. This prepared strip, coated
side downwards, is coiled upon and pressed closely into contact with the surface of
the reed or cane the edges of the coiled strip or tape being brought into close
contact so as to produce a continuous textile binding or covering upon the reed or
cane. The binding or covering of the reed or cane is allowed to dry spontaneously,
that is, without artificial heat. When the textile binding or coating is dry it is
varnished with spirit or oil varnish and finished in the manner commonly practised.
in finishing varnished surfaces. The textile binding or coating is thereby made
waterproof and a bright and smooth surface given to it. The ends of the lengths
of cane or reed so treated are completed by metallic ferrules as usual.
By the treatment described the strength of the fishing rod is much increased
without unduly increasing its weight.
Instead of using a textile strip or tape a strip of paper may be employed; and
although we prefer to apply the textile fabric or paper in the form of a narrow
strip or tape coiled around the exterior of the rod yet a strip of sufficient breadth
when its edges are brought together to form a tubular sheath may be employed
with nearly the same effect.
We apply our invention to fishing rods made of wood substantially in the manner
hereinbefore described with respect to fishing rods made of reed or cane.
1000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in Fishing Rods.
We, FRANK WYERS and CHARLES WYERS, both of South Street, Redditch,
in the County of Worcester, Fishing Tackle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention has reference principally to fishing rods, made of reed or cane,

page_text: such as the reed known in commerce as Spanish reed and the cane known as
Roseau cane, but it may also be applied to fishing rods made of other reed or cane
and to fishing rods made of wood.
We will describe our invention as applied to a fishing rod made of reed
or cane.
Our invention consists in treating the lengths of cane or reed of which the
fishing rod is made in the manner hereinafter described whereby increased strength
is given to the fishing rod without materially increasing its weight and without
materially impairing its flexibility.
We take the required length of reed or cane and fill or pack the hollow joints
or depressions or inequalities in its external surface with paper, tow. or other filling
inaterial so as to give to the reed or cane a continuous smooth and even external
surface; that is, a surface free as possible from irregularities. We next take a
strip or tape of silk, cotton or other woven material of the required length and coat
one side of it with glue or other adhesive material. This prepared strip, coated
side downwards, is coiled upon and pressed closely into contact with the surface of
the reed or cane the edges of the coiled strip or tape being brought into close
contact so as to produce a continuous textile binding or covering upon the reed or
cane. A second strip of silk or cotton or other textile material may be coiled upon
the first coiled strip when additional strength is required the said second strip
being coiled in an opposite direction to that in which the first strip is coiled
upon the reed or cane. The single or double binding or covering of the reed or
cane is allowed to dry spontaneously, that is, without artificial heat. When the
textile binding or coating is dry it is varnished with spirit or oil varnish and
finished in the manner commonly practised in finishing varnished surfaces. The
textile binding or coating is thereby made waterproof and a bright and smooth
surface given to it. The ends of the lengths of cane or reed so treated are
completed by metallic ferrules as usual.
By the treatment described the strength of the fishing rod is much increased
without unduly increasing its weight.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation a length of cane
or reed for a fishing rod, the said length having been strengthened according to
our invention by a double coiled binding or coating of textile material and
afterwards varnished. It will be seen by an examination of Figure 1 that the two
strips of textile material are coiled upon the reed or cane a in opposite directions,
the strip first coiled upon the reed being indicated in dotted lines and the second
strip coiled upon the first being represented in continuous lines and marked c, the
edges of each of the coiled strips being brought into close contact so as to produce
a double continuous textile binding or covering upon the cane or reed.
Figure 2 represents a portion of the cane or reed a, partly in elevation and
partly in longitudinal section, and exhibits the manner in which the strips of textile
material are coiled in opposite directions upon the said reed or cane, the coiled strip
to produce the first continuous binding or covering being marked and the
second strip coiled upon the first to form the second continuous binding or covering
being marked c.-
Figure 3 represents a cross section of the coated reed a, taken on the dotted
line d, d Figure 2, and shows the double coiled coating b, c upon the prepared
surface of the cane.
The sectional part of Figure 2 and the cross section Figure 4, taken on the
dotted line e, e Figure 2, exhibit the manner in which the hollow joints or
depressions or inequalities of the external surface of the length of cane or reed are
packed or filled with paper, paper pulp, powdered soap stone or chalk made into a
plastic state, or other filling material so as to give to the reed or cane a continuous
smooth and even external surface for receiving the textile covering. The hollow
joint or depression in the reed or cane is marked and the packing or filling
material at the said joint is marked g.
The filling material which we prefer to use for filling the hollow joints or

page_text: depressions at the exterior of the reed or cane is the material known in commerce
as German filling made into a plastic state. After the filling has been put into the
hollow joint and has hardened it is smoothed off level with the parts of the cane or
reed on either side of it by sand papering or otherwise smoothing it.
.
Instead of using a textile strip or strips or tape or tapes, a strip or strips of
paper may be employed and although we prefer to apply the textile fabric or paper
in the form of a narrow strip or tape coiled around the exterior of the rod, yet a
strip of sufficient breadth when its edges are brought together to form a tubular
sheath may be employed with nearly the same effect; or a double tubular sheath
may be employed the edges of the two sheaths being joined at opposite points.
The surface of the single or double tubular sheath of textile fabric or paper is
finished by varnishing as hereinbefore described with respect to a textile or paper
binding or coating.
We apply our invention to tubular fishing rods made of wood substantially in
the manner hereinbefore described with respect to fishing rods made of reed
or cane.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim
as our invention of "An improvement or improvements in fishing rods:
"
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Strengthening fishing rods made of reed or cane by first treating the reed or
cane in the manner described so as to produce a continuous smooth and even
external surface and attaching by glue or other adhesive material to the surface of
the reed or cane, so treated, one or more coiled strips or tapes of textile or woven
fabric or paper, or one or more tubular sheaths of textile or woven fabric or paper
so as to produce a continuous binding or covering upon the reed or cane and
finishing the coated or covered surface by varnishing it substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; also the application
of the said methods of strengthening to fishing rods made of tubular lengths of
wood as herein before described.
Dated the Fifth day of October 1892.
FRANK WYERS.
CHARLES WYERS.