Improvements in Spinners for Natural and Artificial Fishing Baits.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spinners for Natural and Artificial Fishing Baits.
We HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED of Washford Mills Redditch in
the County of Worcester Needle, Fish Hook and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers
and JOHN THOMAS EMERY of No. 156 Graham Road Hackney in the County of
Middlesex Journalist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The said invention has reference to such spinners for natural and artificial
fishing baits as consist essentially of a needle which is passed longitudinally into
the bait and screw like wings or flanges on either side and near the top of the
needle for spinning or rotating the bait; and the said invention has for its object
to secure the spinner to the bait in a more efficient manner than has heretofore been
attained by the use of ordinary spinners. This object we effect by arranging or
combining the parts of the spinners in the manner hereinafter described.
In constructing a spinner according to this invention we secure on either side the
needle which is passed longitudinally into the bait a spring clip consisting of two
nearly parallel spring arms having at bottom pointed turned in ends for piercing
and taking into the sides of the bait. The said spring clip extends, when in use,
from the head to about the middle of the bait and is made by bending or fashioning
a double coil at the middle of a piece of thin elastic wire and bringing the parts on
either side the coil nearly parallel to one another, one of the coils being passed
through the eye at the top of the needle during the bending operation. The spring
clip with pointed turned in ends, is thus secured to the head of the needle by the
ring like coil constituting the spring of the clip. To this ring like coil the swivel
of the fishing line and the hooks of the bait are attached. To each arm of the
spring clip near its spring or double coil, a screw like wing of the ordinary kind is
soldered or otherwise attached. The spinner thus made consists of a spring clip
having pointed turned in ends and carrying near its head the spinner proper; that
is, the screw like wings or flanges, the said spring clip and the spinner proper being
secured to the head of the needle by the spring like coil or spring of the clip.
In using the spinner the arms of the spring clip are expanded or separated and
the needle passed longitudinally into the natural or artificial bait so that the said
spring arms lie at the exterior and on opposite sides of the bait. By loosing the
arms of the spring clip they close upon the bait and their pointed turned in ends
pierce and enter the sides of the bait at or about its middle and thereby fix the
spinner very securely in its place.
Dated this 21st day of February 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spinners for Natural and Artificial Fishing Baits.
We HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED of Washford Mills Redditch, in
the County of Worcester, Needle, Fish Hook and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers
and JOHN THOMAS EMERY, of No. 156 Graham Road, Hackney in the County of
Middlesex, Journalist do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
The said invention has reference to such spinners for natural and artificial

page_text: fishing baits as consist essentially of a needle which is passed longitudinally into
the bait and screw like wings or flanges on either side and near the top of the
needle for spinning or rotating the bait; and the said invention has for its object
to secure the spinner to the bait in a more efficient manner than has heretofore
been attained by the use of ordinary spinners. This object we effect by arranging
or combining the parts of the spinners in the manner hereinafter described.
In constructing a spinner according to this invention we secure on either side
the needle, which is passed longitudinally into the bait, a spring clip consisting of
two nearly parallel spring arms having at bottom pointed turned in ends for piercing
and taking into the sides of the bait. The said spring clip extends, when in use,
from the head to about the middle of the bait and is made by bending or fashioning
a double coil at the middle of a piece of thin elastic wire and bringing the parts on
either side the coil nearly parallel to one another, one of the coils being passed
through the eye at the top of the needle during the bending operation. The spring
clip with pointed turned in ends is thus secured to the head of the needle by the
ring like coil constituting the spring of the clip. To this ring like coil the swivel
of the fishing line and the hooks of the bait are attached. To each arm of the
spring clip, near its spring or double coil, a screw like wing of the ordinary kind is
soldered or otherwise attached. The spinner thus made consists of a spring clip
having pointed turned in ends and carrying near its head the spinner proper, that
is the screw like wings or flanges, the said spring clip and the spinner proper being
secured to the head of the needle by the spring like coil or spring of the clip.
In using the spinner the arms of the spring clip are expanded or separated and
the needle passed longitudinally into the natural or artificial bait so that the said
spring arms lie at the exterior and on opposite sides of the bait. By loosing the
arms of the spring clip they close upon the bait and their pointed turned in ends
pierce and enter the sides of the bait at or about its middle and thereby fix the
spinner very securely in its place.
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Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in plan a spinner constructed
according to this invention, together with its attachments, applied to a natural or
artificial bait, the bait being indicated in dotted lines;
Figure 2 represents in side elevation; Figure 3 in end elevation and Figure 4 in
plan and a part in section, the said spinner detached drawn to a larger scale ;
Figure 5 represents the spinner and needle detached, drawn to the same scale as
Figures 2, 3 and 4.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
The spinner consists of a spring clip to the nearly parallel spring arms a, a of
which, and near the head of the spinner the ordinary screw like wings or
flanges b, bare secured. The ring like coil of wire constituting the spring of the
clip is marked c, the spinner being secured to the head of the needle y by the said
coil or spring of the clip being passed through the eye of the said needle (see
Figure 4) as hereinafter described. To the spring or ring like coil c at the head of
the spinner, the swivel d of the fishing line and the fish hooks e, e, f of the bait
are attached. The bottoms of the nearly parallel spring arms a, a of the spinner
have pointed turned in ends a³, a' for piercing and taking into the sides of the bait.
In making the spring clip of the spinner, a thin elastic wire is taken having
pointed ends and a double coil c is bent or fashioned at its middle one of the coils
being passed through the eye of the needle g (see Figure 4). The parts of the wire
on either side the coil are brought nearly parallel to one another so as to form the
spring arms a, a and the pointed ends of the spring arms are turned at a right
angle as shown at a², a². The spring clip is thus made and secured to the needle,
and to the spring arms a, a the ordinary screw like wings b, bare attached near the
spring coil or ring c. The spinner is completed by attaching the swivel d and fish
hooks e, e, f to the spring coil c.
To attach the spinner to the bait, the pointed turned in spring arms a, a³ ; a, a³
are expanded or separated and the needle 9 passed longitudinally into the bait,

page_text: On loosing the spring arms they close upon the bait and their pointed turned-in
ends a', a pierce and enter the sides of the bait at about its middle as represented
in Figure 1. The spinner is in this way securely fixed to the bait.
The pointed turned-in ends a², a² of the spinner may, to afford extra security in
fixing the bait, be barbed like a fish hook as illustrated at a Figure 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention―
The improvements in spinners for natural and artificial fishing baits herein before.
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, making the
said spinners of a spring wire clip to the parallel arms of which are attached the
ordinary screw like wings, the said parallel arms having turned in ends, either
pointed or pointed and barbed, for piercing and taking into the sides of the bait,
the spring coil or ring of the spring clip serving to attach the spinner to the
ordinary needle and the fish hooks and swivel of the fishing line to the spinner
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Tenth day of November 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.