An Appliance for Drying Fishing Lines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1891
Complete 'Specification Left, 18th Aug., "892-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Drying Fishing Lines.
I, PETER DUNCAN MALLOCH of 209 High Street, in the City and County of
Perth, North Britain, Fishing Tackle Maker and Naturalist, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows
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It consists of four
This invention relates to an appliance for drying fishing lines.
or more arms mounted radially upon a boss which is capable of revolving upon a
horizontal spindle, the spindle being projected from a clamp for screwing to a table.
The outer extremities of the arms are provided with horizontal guide bars to hold
the line as it is wound round. The arms are so mounted that they can be all folded
together for convenient packing or carrying. This is effected by pivoting the arms
to the outside of a boss and clamping them into the required position by an outside
plate which is forced up tight against the arms by a nut. 1 preferably cause the
arms to lie in grooves in the side of the boss so as to prevent the arms shifting.
The arrangement is such that when the drum, that is to say the arms and the boss,
is filled another drum can be used after taking the filled drum off the spindle.
Dated this 26th day of November 1891.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Drying Fishing Lines.
I, PETER DUNCAN MALLOCH, of 209 High Street, in the City and County of
Perth, North Britain, Fishing Tackle Maker and Naturalist, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an appliance for drying fishing lines. It consists of four
or more arms mounted radially upon a boss which is capable of revolving upon a
horizontal spindle, the spindle being projected from a clamp for screwing to a table.
The arms are so mounted that they can all be folded together for convenient
packing or carrying.
Figure 1 is a front view of the dryer as in use
Figure 2 is a side view of the drum in its folded or collapsed condition suitable
for packing or carrying.
I may employ four or other convenient number of arms A which when in use
are mounted radially from the boss B. The said boss is capable of rotating freely
upon the spindle C which is carried from the clamp D; E being the edge of any
convenient table, c is the small nut to prevent the boss coming off the end of the
spindle. The boss is provided with a sleeve b which is screwed on the outside to
receive the nut for the purpose of clamping up the boss plate 62 against the arms A
so that the arms are held fast between the boss B and the boss plate 62. In order to
prevent the arms shifting, I prefer to cause them to lie within grooves 3 formed at
the inner side of the boss.
When it is desired to pack up the dryer, the nut c is unscrewed and the drum
with its arms taken off the spindle C. The other nut is then loosened so as to
loosen the plate and allow the arms to fall out of their grooves and thus to drop
down into the position shown in Figure 2, the arms being suspended by their bent
ends being always through holes in the boss, and the arms are prevented from
coming out of their holes altogether by reason of the length of their bent portions.

page_text: The line is wound in the ordinary way round the cross-bars F formed upon the
outer ends of the arms.
When one drum is full it can be taken off and another drum put on in its place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1.) The general arrangement and construction of fishing line dryer substantially
as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
(2.) The arrangement by which the arms can be folded or collapsed substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 17th day of August. 1892.
JOHNSONS,
..115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's 'Agents.