Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Fishing Bait.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Fishing Bait.
We, HENRY MILWARD AND SONS, LIMITED, of Washford Mills, Redditch, in
the County of Worcester, Needle, Fish Hook and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers,
and THOMAS PERRY of No. 28 Park Road Redditch, aforesaid Manager of
Fishing Tackle Department do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
The said invention consists essentially in making the bodies of artificial fishing
bait, in imitation of minnows and other small fishes, of the material known in
commerce as celluloid, the said celluloid bodies having metallic head parts attached
to them and being weighted as hereinafter described.
We make the celluloid body of the bait, hollow or tubular and tapering so as to
resemble the body of a minnow or other fish it is required to imitate. The large
end of the tapering tubular or hollow celluloid body is open and the smaller end is
flattened and shaped to resemble the tail of a fish. This celluloid body is made
from thin sheet celluloid by treating it in the ordinary way..
To the open end of the tubular or hollow celluloid body the metallic head of the
bait is secured. The metallic head is fitted into the open end of the body and is
fixed in its place by tying or otherwise. The metallic head part of the bait carries
the usual fins or wing pieces. The bait is weighted by inserting into its hollow
or tubular celluloid body, before the head part is connected to it, a weight of lead
or other metal which weight is secured to the metallic head by fishing gut or
fine wire.
By means of fishing gut or fine wire threads connected to the tail end of the
weight and protruding from the tail end of the celluloid body the fish hooks are
attached to the bait. Fish hooks may also be attached to the loop or nose of the
metallic head of the bait. The fishing bait thus made is finished in the same way
as ordinary artificial fishing bait are finished.
Dated the 10th day of November 1891
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Fishing Bait.
We, HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED of Washford Mills, Redditch in
the County of Worcester, Needle, Fish Hook and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers
and THOMAS PERRY, of No. 28 Park Road Redditch, aforesaid, Manager of
Fishing Tackle Department, 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 consists essentially in making the bodies of artificial fishing
bait, in imitation of minnows and other small fishes, of the material known in
commerce as celluloid, the said celluloid bodies having metallic head parts attached
to them and being weighted as hereinafter described.
We make the celluloid body of the bait hollow or tubular and tapering so as to
resemble the body of a minnow or other fish it is required to imitate. The large
end of the tapering tubular or hollow celluloid body is open and the smaller end is
flattened and shaped to resemble the tail of a fish. This celluloid body is made
from thin sheet celluloid by treating it in the ordinary way.

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To the open end of the tubular or hollow celluloid body the metallic head of the
bait is secured. The metallic head is fitted into the open end of the body and is
fixed in its place by tying or otherwise. The metallic head part of the bait carries
the usual fins or wing pieces. The bait is weighted by inserting into its hollow or
tubular celluloid body, before the head part is connected to it a weight of lead
or other metal which weight is secured to the metallic head by fishing gut or
fine wire.
By means of fishing gut or fine wire threads connected to the tail end of the
weight and protruding from the tail end of the celluloid body the fish hooks are
attached to the bait. Fish hooks may also be attached to the loop or nose of the
metallic head of the bait. The fishing bait thus made is finished in the same way
as ordinary artificial fishing bait are finished.
Figure of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation an artificial
fishing bait made according to this invention and Figures 2 and 3 represent longi-
tudinal sections of the same taken in planes at right angles to one another;
Figures 4 and 5 represent longitudinal sections of the head part and weight of
the bait, the said sections being taken in planes at right angles to one another;
Figures 6 and 7 represent the halves of which the celluloid body of the bait is
made and
Figure 8 represents the tubular celluloid body composed of the halves represented
in Figures 6 and 7.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
a is the celluloid tubular body of the bait and is the metallic head part
consisting of a tubular piece provided with fins or wings for spinning the bait ;
is the weight of lead in the axis of the celluloid tubular body a, the said weight
being secured to the metallic head by means of the fishing gut or fine wire threads
at d which are connected to the ring or loop 62 in the head part b. The gut or
fine wire threads passing through the weight, protrude from the tail end of the.
bait. The tubular metallic head part 6 fits in the open end of the celluloid body a
as seen in the sections Figures 2 and 3 and is fixed in its place either by cementing
the end of the body to the tubular head part or by whipping or tying the end of
the body to the head part. A groove 3 is made in the tubular metallic head
part for the edge of the open end of the celluloid body to fit in (see Figures 4;
and 5).
To the fishing gut or fine wire threads d projecting from the tail end of the
celluloid body a of the bait, fish hooks e are attached. Other fish hooks f and g
are respectively secured at the head end and at the side of the bait. The fish
hooks at and g are connected to the twisted fishing gut or fine wire threads h
by whipping the hooks thereto after the said gut or threads have been attached to
the ring or loop 62 of the head and passed through a hole in the side of the celluloid
body a as seen in Figure 3.
The weight of the bait and the hooks may be attached to a strong axial wire
fixed to the metallic head part as illustrated in Figures 9 and 10 which represent
longitudinal sections of the bait taken in planes at right angles to one another."
In the said Figures 9 and 10, the tubular head of the bait is marked b and the
axial wire connected to the said head and carrying the weight is marked c.
The tail end of the wire i is made into a spring loop so that the tail hooks
may be readily attached to and detached from it the ordinary whipping of the tail
hooks being superseded. The head end of the wire i carries the swivel k for
attaching the line or trace to the head of the bait.
It is preferred to make the hollow or tubular celluloid body a of the bait in
longitudinal halves as represented in Figures 6 and 7, the said halves of the body
being made from sheet celluloid by pressing or shaping it in dies or otherwise
moulding or shaping the sheet celluloid into the required form. In order to secure
the longitudinal halves of the body of the bait together strips of celluloid are
attached to the longitudinal edges of the half body as represented at 1. Figure 6;

page_text: one half of the strip projecting beyond the said edges so as to form supporting lips
or flanges to which the plain edges of the other half body represented in Figure 7
are attached for forming the hollow or tubular body of the bait as represented in
Figure 8. The half of the bait body Figure 7 is pierced with a hole m through
which the twisted gut or wire to the end of which the side hooks are attached is
passed as seen in Figures 1 and 3.
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We employ either collodion or mastic varnish for connecting the parts of the
celluloid body together.
Although we have represented the hollow or tubular celluloid body of the bait
as made in longitudinal halves joined together edge to edge, yet we do not limit
ourselves thereto as the body of the bait may be otherwise made; for example it
may be made from one piece or strip of sheet celluloid by pressing or bending it
when in a softened state upon a block or pattern so as to give it the general figure
of the body of the bait to be made, the form of the said body being afterwards
perfected and the tail piece added thereto; but we prefer to make the celluloid
body in longitudinal halves as before described.
The shape of the head fitting to which the weight and fish hooks are attached
are varied according to the particular kind of bait it is desired to imitate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven- .
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention-
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The improvements in the manufacture of artificial fishing bait herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; that is to say, making an
artificial bait of a hollow or tubular body of celluloid combined with a tubular
metallic head part to which the weight and hooks of the bait are attached substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-third day of July 1892
HENRY MILWARD AND SONS, LIMITED,
By Charles Frederic Milward, Director.
THOMAN PERDV