Improvements in Folios for the Better Carrying and Preserving of Artificial Flies and other Lure Used in Angling.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 26th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
Improvements in Folios for the Better Carrying and Preserving
of Artificial Flies and other Lure Used in Angling.
I, WILLIAM RADCLIFFE, of 43 Queen's Road, Brownswood Park, London, N.
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Folios for this purpose are well known and usually made with pockets of
parchment, discs or wads of leather &c. being placed at the corners to prevent the
Hies &c. being pressed, these however are found to be insufficient-My invention
consists in the use of Felt or some analogous substance as an edging to the pockets as
well as to the folios in place of the leather &c. heretofore used, for the purpose of
forming a series of traylike receptacles on each folio thus providing a means of
keeping the flies &c. in better form and greater security at the same time from the
absorbent nature of the material permitting the use of essential oils and other
preservatives against attacks of moths, &c.
Dated this and der of An 1887
WILLIAM RADCLIFFE

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folios for the Better Carrying and Preserving
of Artificial Flies and other Lure Used in Angling.
I WILLIAM RADCLIFFE of 150 Cheapside London, E.C. Commercial Traveller 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:
Folios for artificial flies and other lure used in angling are well known and are
usually made with pockets of parchment and provided with discs or wads of leather
or other like material placed at the corners to prevent the flies or lure being pressed ;
these folios however are found to be insufficient.
Now my invention consists in providing the mouths of the pockets as well as the
borders or edges of the folios themselves with a raised edging of felt or other analogous
substance (in place of the discs or wads of leather heretofore used at the corners of
the folios), for the purpose of forming a series of sunk or tray-like receptacles on one
or both sides of each folio or for the purpose of forming each separate folio into a tray
thus preventing crushing and providing a means of keeping the Flies, Hackles,
Minnows or other artificial lure in better form and as regards Flies and Hackles in
greater safety against being shaken out of the pockets whilst at the same time the
absorbent nature of the material forming the raised borders and edges of the pockets
and folios permits of the use of essential oils and other preservatives against the
attacks of moths thus more effectually preserving the Flies and Hackles.
I may employ various materials for forming the folios such for example as
parchment, Vulcanite, or Vulcanized fibre woven or netted wire or perforated sheet
metal or reeded wood or split cane either alone or placed between two sheets of
parchment vulcanite or vulcanized fibre but in all cases bound with felt, cloth or other
absorbent material so as to form tray like receptacles for the reception and carrying
of Flies, Minnows, and other artificial lure.
These improved folios may be bound together bookwise or used loose as preferred.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan of a folio constructed of parch-
ment suitable for carrying artificial flies it being made with pockets for the gut and
provided with raised edges of felt along the mouths of the pockets as well as round
the borders of the folio in order to preserve the flies from being crushed.
Figure 2 is a corresponding vertical section of the same.
Figure 3 is a plan of a folio constructed of woven wire work without pockets and
adapted for carrying minnows and such like lure but provided with a raised border
of felt all round the folio to protect the lure from being crushed and
Figure 4 is a corresponding vertical section of the same.

page_text: In Figures 1 and 2 the body a of the folio is of parchment or other like material
having the usual pockets bb formed on one or both faces thereof. cc are the raised
edgings or borderings of felt or other absorbent material stitched or otherwise secured
to the lip or edge of each pocket and d d are deeper edgings or borders secured by
stitching or otherwise all round the folio so as to form a tray so that when two or
more of these folios are bound together or placed loosely on one another ample space
will be afforded for the preservation of the flies without liability to crushing.
In folios intended for carrying artificial Minnows and such like lure as shown in
figures 3 and 4 the folio may be of woven wire or perforated metal a having rows of
meshes or openings b at suitable intervals of increased length for greater facility of
inserting and withdrawing the hooks therein and therefrom. d d are the raised
borders by preference of felt or other analogous material secured round the edges of
the folio on one or both sides thereof forming a protecting tray for the lure.
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. In folios provided with pockets for carrying and preserving artificial Flies and
Hackles used in angling, the application of raised borders or edgings of felt or other
absorbent material to the mouths of the pockets or to the edges of the folio or both,
so as to form trays or receptacles for the better security and preservation of the lure
substantially as herein before described.
2. In folios made without pockets for carrying and preserving artificial Flies, Hackles,
Minnows and other like lure used in angling the application of raised borders or
edgings of felt or other suitable material to the edges of the folios so as to form
protective trays or receptacles for the lure substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The application to folios for carrying and preserving artificial Flies and Hackles
used in angling of raised borders or strips of absorbent material capable of retaining
essential oils or other preservatives of the Flies and Hackles against the attacks of
insects as specified.
Dated the kill of Navamhan 1007