Improvements in Sinkers or. Lead Weights (commonly known as Leads) and the Attachment of same to Lines and the like for Fishing Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1894 Accepted; 2nd Feb., 1°95
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sinkers or. Lead Weights (commonly known as
Leads) and the Attachment of same to Lines and the like for
Fishing Purposes.
JOHN HOWARD ALLCOCK 13 Adelaide Street Brazier and Bait Caster Redditch
Worcestershire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of a tube of lead or other metal or substance tapered
towards either end, and in which are cut or otherwise formed one or more
longitudinal slots in the middle, and one or more transverse slotes at each end.
These slotes communicate with each other and with the center of the tube in such
a manner that a fishing or other line can be inserted in and passed through the
lead without the necessity of untying or otherwise dividing the fishing line. The
lead can thus be adjusted to any part of the line & fixed there, by twisting the
line once round it.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1894.
Improvements in Sinkers or Lead Weights (commonly known as
Leads) and the Attachment of same to Lines and the like for
Fishing Purposes.
JOHN HOWARD ALLCOCK 13 Adelaide Street Redditch Worcestershire, Brazier
and Bait Caster 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 :-
The invention consists of a tube of lead or any other suitable material tapered
towards both ends and in which are made two or more longitudinal slots and one or
more transverse slots near each end. These slots communicate with each other
and with the centre of "tube" in such a manner that a fishing or other line can be
inserted in and passed through the "tube " without the neccessity of untying or
otherwise dividing the line. The "tube" can therefore be adjusted on any part of
the line and also can be fixed in that position, by winding the line round each of
the transverse slots & continued up the longitudinal slots.
Fig. 1. shows the sinker or lead weight A. B. with the longitudinal slot C in the
centre of sinker or lead weight A. B., also the two transverse slots D. D.
Fig. 2. is the sinker or lead weight A. B. reversed showing the longitudinal
slots E E at each end of the sinker A. B. which it will be seen are connected with
the longitudinal slot C. Fig. 1. by the transverse slots D. D. Fig. 1 & 2.
The line is first passed into one of the transverse slots D D then into the nearest
longitudinal slot E. Fig. 2 then into the centre longitudinal slot C. Fig. 1. & then
repeat the operation at the other end of sinker A. B.

page_text: 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
now claim is :-
A tube of lead or the like tapered at each end with two or more longitudinal
slots made in different positions along the said lead, these slots are connected 5
together by transverse slots, so that it may be adjusted on a line without parting
the line.
Dated 5th day of December 1894.
JOHN HOWARD ALLCOCK.