An Improved Gaff Hook with Safety Guard Hinged to the Gaff Hook.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1889:
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov:, 1889-Accepted, 15th: Feb, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Gaff Hook with Safety Guard Hinged to the
Gaff Hook.
WILLIAM HENRY WIGLEY Saxby Lodge Cheltenham Gloucestershire School
Attendance Officer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improved Gaff Hook hinged with safty guard is so constructed that it
can be carried by the angler in his pocket without danger to his person. The
(uard is made of metal consisting of a tube two or three inches long according
to size of the Gaff Hook needed at the one end are two flanges through which a pin
or rivet is passed to unite the base of the Hook with the Guard at the other end
a small hole is drilled through one side of the guard to receive the point of the
Gaff Hook when shut up. At the side of the guard is a small groove cut.
is made to receive a stud placed in the landing handle to secure the gaff hook
in proper possition when needed. It is simple and quickly put together not needing
any screws as all others do. It can be adapted to any landing handle now in use
by the insertion of a small stud to secure the guard from coming off.
Dated this 15th day of February 1889
This
WM. H. WIGLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Gaff Hook with Safety Guard Hinged to the
Gaff Hook.
WILLIAM HENRY WIGLEY School Attendance Officer Municipal Office
Cheltenham 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 :-
An Improved Gaff Hook with hinged safty guard to enable the angler to carry
it in his pocket without danger to his person. The hook and guard is made of
metal the guard consisting of a tube two or three inches long according to the
size of the gaff hook needed. At the one end of the tube are two flanges through
which a pin or rivet is passed to unite the base of the hook to the guard near
the other end of the guard a small hole is drilled through one side to receive the
point of the guff hook when shut up. At the same end of the guard a groov is
cut up an inch and then crossways to receive a stud placed in the Landing handle
to secure the Gaff Hook in proper possition when needed. It is simple and quickly
put together not needing any screw as others do. The screw principal can be applied
if an angler prefered it without any interferance with the Guard. It can be adapted
to any ordinary landing handle now in use by the insertion of a small stud to secure
the guard from coming of the landing handle.
A. Gaff Hook full size open and shut.
B. Hinged tube or guard to receive gaff hook.
C. Slot to receive stud in landing handle.
Having
now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be nerformed I declare that what Lalaim is

page_text: 2nd. Perfect safty to the angler when carrying it about his person.
3rd. Simplicity and quickness of action in fixing or applying it to the landing
handle over others now in use..
Dated this 15th day of November 1889
WILLIAM HENRY WIGLEY,
Municipal Office, Cheltenham.