Improvements in Apparatus for Incubating and Transporting Flies for Angling.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left. 9th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVIDIUNAL DIDIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Incubating and Transporting Flies
for Angling.
I, ALPHONSE BOURBONNEUX, of 137, Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, Paris, in
the Republic of France, Furniture Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to apparatus for incubating and transporting flies for
angling.
Doubtless the best bait for angling is the live fly which forms a natural bait.
The difficulty of procuring flies when fishing has induced me to devise a special
apparatus comprising an incubating box and a transporting box, whereby it is
rendered possible to always have live flies ready to be put to the fish hook.
In order to render the arrangement of my apparatus better understood I have
represented it in the accompanying drawing, but only by way of example.
In this drawing
Figure 1 represents an elevation of the incubating box.
Figure 2 shows a front elevation of the transporting box.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of this transporting box.
Figure 4 represents the connection of the two boxes when the flies are to pass
from the incubating box into the transporting box.
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The incubating box a illustrated in Figure 1 can be made round or flat and has at
its upper part a neck b connected with the body of the box by a taper part c in order
to facilitate the outlet of the flies and the cleaning of the box. A cork stopper
held by a small chain e serves for closing this box or bottle, into which are intro-
duced the gentles when they become red or black. I can also make this box or
bottle of two parts, one of which fits into the other.
The transporting box or bottle is composed of four distinct parts viz. the body
of the box provided with a wire gauze g, for lighting and airing the interior of this
box, the bottom which is adapted to be removed for cleaning this receptacle; the
neck i having an aperture through which the flies are taken one by one, and the
cover or cap which is likewise provided with an aperture and is turned
upon the neck in order to make the two apertures correspond when a fly is to be
taken out.
The diameter of the neck of the incubating box or bottle is such that it can
receive in its interior the neck i of the transporting box or bottle so that the
hatched flies will pass into this transporting box or bottle when they perceive the
light which the wire gauze g allows to enter. The cover or cap jis then placed
upon this bottle and the flies are taken one by one according to requirements by
turning this cover or cap j so as to make the two apertures correspond for the
purpose of obtaining a suitable outlet through which the flies will try to leave.
This cover or cap is connected with the box or bottle f by means of a small
chain and can be turned in either one or the other direction.
For fixing the cover or cap upon the transporting box I have provided it with a
flange having a notch so that this flange when the said cover or cap is turned will
engage with a hook n whereby the small chain is held. A similar notch is also
provided in the neck of the incubating box for the purpose of enabling the two
boxes to be connected with each other as shown in Figure 4.

page_text: It will be understood that the details, form, materials and dimensions of the
above described apparatus can be varied without departing from the nature of my
invention.
Dated this 16th day of June 1890..
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45. Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Incubating and Transporting Flies
for Angling.
I, ALPHONSE BOURBONNEUX, of 137, Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, Paris, in
the Republic of France, Furniture Dealer, 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 :—
My invention relates to apparatus for incubating and transporting flies for
angling.
The best bait for angling is doubtless the live fly which forms a natural bait.
The difficulty of procuring flies when fishing has induced me to devise a special
apparatus comprising an incubating box and a transporting box, whereby it
is rendered possible to always have live flies ready to be put to the fish-hook.
In order to render the arrangement of my apparatus better understood I
have represented it by way of example in the drawing, left with my Provisional
Specification.
In this drawing,
Figure 1 represents an elevation of the incubating box.
Figure 2 shows a front elevation of the transporting box.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of this transporting box.
Figure 4 represents the connection of the two boxes when the flies are to pass
from the incubating box into the transporting box.
The incubating box a illustrated in Figure 1 can be made round or flat and has
at its upper part a neck connected with the body of the box by a taper part e in
order to facilitate the outlet of the flies and the cleaning of the box. A cork
stopper held by a small chain e serves for closing this box or bottle, into which
are introduced the gentles when they become red or black. I can also make this
box or bottle of two parts, one of which fits into the other.
The transporting box or bottle fis composed of four distinct parts, viz. :-the
body of the box provided with a wire gauze, for lighting and airing the
interior; the bottom which is adapted to be removed for cleaning this receptacle:
the neck having an aperture through which the flies are taken one by one
and the cover or cap which is likewise provided with an aperture and is
turned upon the neck in order to make the two apertures correspond when a fly is
to be taken out.
The diameter of the neck of the incubating box or bottle is such that it can
receive in its interior the neck of the transporting box or bottle so that the
hatched flies will pass into this transporting box or bottle when they perceive
the light which the wire gauze allows to enter. The cover or cap is then
placed upon this bottle and the flies are taken one by one according to require-
ments by turning this cover or cap j so as to make the two apertures correspond for
the purpose of obtaining a suitable outlet through which the flies will try to leave.
This cover or cap is connected with the box or bottle f by means of a small chain &
and can be turned in either one or the other direction.
For fixing the cover or cap upon the transporting box I have provided it with
a flange having a notch so that this flange when the said cover or cap is turned
will engage with a hook n whereby the small chain is held. A similar notch is

page_text: also provided in the neck of the incubating box for the purpose of enabling the
two boxes to be connected with each other as shown in Figure 4.
It will be understood that the details, form, materials and dimensions of the
above-described apparatus can be varied without departing from the nature of my
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The improved apparatus for the incubation and transport of flies for angling which
consists of an incubating box and a transporting box arranged one upon the other,
for the purpose of collecting in the said transporting box, the flies hatched in the
incubating box, the said transporting box being provided with an air-hole and an
orifice closed by wire gauze and a plug having an opening, in combination with a
neck also having an opening, forming together a kind of valve through which the
flies are taken out one by one as required, the whole substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the drawing.
Dated this 9th day of March 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.