Improvements in Devices for Carrying Anglers' Hooks and Flies.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Carrying Anglers' Hooks and Flies.
I, ROBERT BEALES CANTRELL, of No. 53, McDonough Street, in the Borough
of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, and City and State of New York, United
States of America, Dentist Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:
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This invention relates to cards, books, or cases for holding anglers' hooks or
flies, and which are usually, but not necessarily, adapted to be carried in the
pocket. The invention may include two hinged covers to form a book, or it
may include simply a holder or card for the hooks or flies adapted to be enclosed
in or between the hinged covers of a book, wherein it may, if desired, be secured
as a leaf of a book.
This card to carry the hooks or flies may be constructed in several ways, but
in any case it will have a stiff supporting card of some suitable material, pro-
vided with elongated pockets or cells to receive the shanks and snells of the
hooks. The materials used may, for example, be celluloid, aluminium, and the
like. in a relatively thin sheet.
Preferably the pockets or cells will be formed by corrugating the material
and then securing to the face or faces of the corrugated sheet, flat sheets or plates
which latter will be somewhat shorter than the corrugated sheet.
Or, a flat card may have secured to one or both of its faces a corrugated sheet
or sheets, the latter being, preferably, shorter than the flat or plain card or sheet.
Or, on the face of a plain card or sheet may be mounted tubular pockets or
cells formed of slender tubes of any suitable material placed closely side by side.
But the corrugated material is, I believe, the simplest, cheapest and best material
for the purpose.
It is feasible to mount one set of pockets on the face of another so as to form
a double set.
The holder may be rectangular in its outer contour, and of such size as to fit
into the covers of any fly-book.
STEPHEN WATKINS & GROVES,
Prince's Chambers, Wolverhampton,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Devices for Carrying Anglers' Hooks and Flies.
I, ROBERT BEALES CANTRELL, of No. 53, McDonough Street, in the Borough
of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, and City and State of New York, United
[Price 8d.1

page_text: States of America, Dentist Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to cards, books, or cases for holding anglers' hooks or
flies, and which are usually, but not necessarily, adapted to be carried in the
pocket. The invention may include two hinged covers to form a book, or it
may include simply a holder or card for the hooks or flies adapted to be enclosed
in or between the hinged covers of a book, wherein it may, if desired, be secured
as a leaf of a book.
This card to carry the hooks or flies may be constructed in several ways, but
in any case it will have a stiff supporting card of some suitable material, pro-
vided with elongated pockets or cells to receive the shanks and snells of the
hooks. The materials used may, for example, be celluloid, aluminium, and the
like, in a relatively thin sheet.
Preferably the pockets or cells will be formed by corrugating the material
and then securing to the face or faces of the corrugated sheet, flat sheets or plates
which latter will be somewhat shorter than the corrugated sheet.
Or, a flat card may have secured to one or both of its faces a corrugated sheet
or sheets, the latter being, preferably, shorter than the flat or plain card or sheet.
Or, on the face of a plain card or sheet may be mounted tubular pockets or
cells formed of slender tubes of any suitable material placed closely side by side.
But the corrugated material is, I believe, the simplest, cheapest and best material
for the purpose.
It is feasible to mount one set of pockets on the face of another so as to form
a double set.
The holder may be rectangular in its outer contour, and of such size as to fit
into the covers of any fly-book.
The accompanying drawings illustrate an embodiment of the invention in its
preferred form.
Figure 1 is a face view of the holder.
Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.
Figure 3 is a transverse section of the same.
Figure 4 illustrates the preferred form of spring device for retaining the hooks
in place.
The device may be made of any suitable sheet material such as paper, cellu-
loid, metal, and the like; but celluloid is preferred. It consists essentially of
three connected and superposed sheets of the material the middle one of which
projects at its ends beyond the others and is corrugated to form two sets of open-
ended pockets to receive and house the snells of the hooks. Means are employed
for holding the hooks against falling out.
1 is the longer, corrugated sheet, and 2, 2, are the shorter, plain sheets secured
to the respective faces of the sheet 1, thus forming elongated cells or pockets, 3
(Figure 3), to receive and house the shanks of hooks, 4, and the snells, 5, secured
thereto. The plain or uncorrugated sheets are made shorter than the corrugated
sheet so that the mouths or entrances of the pockets will be the more accessible
to the snells of the hooks in placing the latter. The snells fit loosely in the
pockets or cells, and suitable means are employed to take over the hooks and
keep them from dropping out. Such means may comprise, as herein shown, a
spring-bar, 6, as seen in Figures 1 and 2, to gently press upon and
hold the hooks in place. Or, preferably a sheet, 6, of transparent
form scen in Figure
may be employed. This material will be secured, as a hood over the
end or ends of the sheet 1, and extend down as a springy flap over the hooks.
It is not important to my invention, however, what special form of retainer is
employed to keep the hooks from falling out.
celluloid
or
the like, and
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My holder may be employed for either fly-hooks or plain hooks.
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page_text: 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. A holder for anglers' hooks, comprising a stiff base-card having on its face
tubular pockets or cells open at their ends and of such length as to receive and
substantially enclose and house the snells and shanks of the hooks, substantially
as set forth.
2. A holder for anglers' hooks, comprising a stiff base-card having on its face
tubular pockets or cells open at their ends and of such length as to receive and
substantially enclose and house the snells and shanks of the hooks, said pockets
or cells being formed of stiff, corrugated, sheet material, substantially as set
forth.
3. A holder for anglers' hooks, comprising three connected and superposed,
rectangular sheets of stiff material, the middle one of which projects at its ends
beyond the others, one of said sheets being corrugated to form deep open-ended
pockets to receive and house the snells of the hooks, substantially as set forth.
4. A holder for anglers' hooks, comprising three connected and superposed
sheets of stiff material, the middle one of which is corrugated and extends beyond
the ends of the others, thus forming open-ended, deep pockets to house the snells
of the hooks, substantially as set forth.
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STEPHEN WATKINS & GROVES.
Chartered Patent Agents,
Prince's Chambers, Wolverhampton,
Agents for the Applicant."