Improvements in Artificial Fishing Bait.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1898-Accepted, 23rd July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Fishing Bait.
I, HARVEY ALLCOCK, 67, Francis Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object improvements in artificial fishing bait by which
I am enabled to protect the gut to which the hooks are attached from being injured
or cut by the teeth of the fish or by the edges of the artificial bait.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which I have illustrated examples of my bait.
Figure 1 is a view of an artificial bait and hooks complete made according to
my invention.
Figure 2 is a view of the bait with the swivel and hooks detached.
Figure 3 is a view of the swivel and hooks fitted with my improvements.
Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 3 shewing a slightly modified form.
Figure 5 is a view shewing a further modification of my artificial bait and
hooks.
In artificial bait as at present constructed it has been found that the fish when
grabbing at the bait and in its endeavours to get free frequently bites through
the gut and sometimes the sharp edges of the metal bait when the fish is wriggling
will cut the gut to which the hooks are attached thus liberating the fish. Now
in order to overcome these difficulties which are a source of annoyance and loss
to fishermen I provide the coiled spring S the loose ends of which are hard
soldered so as to form a smooth surface, and the spring may be tinned, electro-
plated or covered with a deposit of any other metal. Up the centre of this spring
the gut a to which the swivel and hooks A are attached passes. The coiled spring
and hooks are then inserted into the bait B in the usual manner as clearly shewn
at Figure 1. The upper set of hooks may be attached to the split ring D as
shewn at Figures 1 and 3 and when inserting the swivel and hooks into the bait
this ring slides up the slots b as shewn at Figure 2. Or instead of attaching the
upper set of hooks to the ring D I may attach them to the central gut a¹ by the
piece of gut a as shewn at Figure 4. In some cases the coiled spring S may
extend as far or nearly as far as the lowest set of hooks, the middle set of hooks
passing through the coils of the spring as shewn at Figures 3 and 4, or the spring
may only extend as far as the middle set of hooks as shewn at Figure 1.
In the modification as shewn at Figure 5 I may dispense with the lower portion
of the bait and use only the upper portion, the coil spring and hooks extending
below the bait.
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:-

page_text: protecting the gut to which the hooks A are attached by means of a coiled spring
such as S carried up inside the bait B and through which the gut or line passes
and to which the hook or hooks are connected in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as herein set forth and as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Second: In fishing baits the use of a coiled or flexible wire casing through
which the line or gut passes which carries the hook or hooks and whether covered
by the bait or only partly covered as and for the purpose herein set forth and
shewn by Figures 1 to 5 on the drawings.
HARVEY ALLCOCK,
By George Barker,
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.