An Automatic Fishing Device.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
An Automatic Fishing Device.
I, GEORGE COOK, of 803, W. Street, Cathern, Louisville, Kentucky, United
States of America, Cook, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and aseer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a device for catching fish-
device which is automatic, and one which will not only hook the fish, but will
also play the fish, and then draw it in after it becomes exhausted. Provision is
also made to notify the fisherman of a strike by sounding an alarm.
To this end, the invention consists in certain features of construction and com-
bination of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed
out in the appended claims.
In the accompanying drawings, the same reference characters indicate the same
parts of the invention.
Figure is a side elevation of my improved automatic fishing device, as it
appears when set.
Figure 2 is a similar view of the same as it appears when tripped.
Figure is a transverse vertical section.
Figure 4 is a detail view of the reel shaft.
1-2 denote parallel standards rising from the hollow base 3, and connected at
their upper ends by the horizontal brace rails 4-4. 5 designates a carriage
having a longitudinal movement in the base 3, and 6 denotes a spiral spring
having one end fixed to said carriage and the other to the base, so that when the
carriage is moved forward, the spring is expanded, and when the carriage is
released, the spring will withdraw it to the rear end of the frame. ī denotes
the reel-box fixed to the carriage and travelling with it. 8 designates the reel
journaled in said box and provided with a gear-wheel 9, which is driven by a
spring actuated train of gearing mounted in the reel-box.
10 denotes a ratchet wheel on the reel, and 12 denotes the fishing line wound
on the reel in the usual manner.
13 denotes a bell crank lever fulcrumed on a rock-shaft 14 journaled in the for-
ward standards and having its horizontal arm 15 formed with a tooth 16, which
engages the ratchet wheel 10 on the reel-box, when the carriage is run forward.
as shown in Fig. 1.
The outer arm 17 of the hell crank lever extends diagonally forward and is pro-
vided with V-shaped notches 18 to receive the line, which. after being cast. is
drawn comparatively laut, and a bight or loop made at this point and held in one
of the notches 18, so urranged that when the free end of the line is drawn for-
ward, as, for instance, when a fish strikes the hook. the arm 17 is drawn down,
and the arm 15 is thrown up to simultaneously release the reel and the reel box,
the spring 6 drawing the carriage and reel box back. This action withdraws the
loop or bight of the line out of the notch in the arm 17 and permits the reel to
wind up the line under the influence of the spring-actuated gearing.
The shaft 19, on which the reel is mounted, is journaled in two parallel

page_text: arms 20-20, which are pivoted to the reel box, and this permits the gear-wheel 9
to be thrown into and out of mesh with the contiguous gear-wheel on the train
of gearing. One end of the reel shaft 19 is square, and is preferably of the same
size as the winding shaft, so that the same key may be used on both.
The upper end of the reel box is provided with irolley wheels 21-21, which
engage the brace rails 4-1 to facilitate the travel of the carriage, and 22 denotes
an alarm gong fixed on the frame and having its trip-lever projecting into the
path of the reel box, so that when it slides back under the influence of the spring 6,
it strikes the trip lever and sounds an alarm.
It will of course be understood that various changes in the form, proportion,
and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from
the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.
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-
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1. In combination, the frame, the spring-actuated carriage traversing said
frame, the reel box carried by said carriage, the spring actuated reel journaled
in said hox, and a bell crank lever fulcrumed in said frame and in operative
connection therewith, and in the path of said reel box, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
2. In combination, the frame, the spring actuated carriage travelling in sail
frame, the reel box mounted on said carriage, and a spring actuated alarm gong
fixed on the frame and having its trip lever projecting into the path of said reel
box and operated by the movement thereof, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
Dated this 27th day of Anvil 1999
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.