Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Floats, Leads, and other Articles to Fishing Lines, and Improvements in Floats for Angling Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Floats, Leads, and
other Articles to Fishing Lines, and Improvements in Floats for
Angling Purposes.
ALFRED JOHN TAY Victoria Street Redditch, Float Maker, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows (see accompanying drawings):
:-
Fig. 1. Metal spring ring or eye A. opening at O. with twisted and tapered
shank B. for inserting into floats or leads.
Fig. 2. Metal spring ring or eye C. similar to Fig. 1. with divided shank D.
flattened for binding on when required.
Fig. 4. Metal spring ring or eye A. conveniently constructed from one piece of
metal in coil shape, opening, at either side of ring at O. O. & with twisted and
tapered shank B.
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Fig. 5. Another convenient shape for ring or eye A. opening at O.
Fig. 3. Improved float, having a slot or channel E. of any required depth in
head or top of float, and into the top of each of the "uprights" X. Y.-made by
the channel E.-is fixed a short piece of metal at right angles and adjacent to
each other, forming a right angled, or round or dome top spring staple or clip,
through which the line is passed into the channel E. A coil-headed or other
shaped pin F is fixed into body of float, and at the bottom is secured a metal
spring ring or eye A. of either Fig. 1. 2. 4 or 5 as most suitable.
Fig. 6.
Improved combination attachment" consisting of any conveniently
shaped float (as H). (or leads K Fig. 8. and M Fig. 9.) metal spring rings or
eyes A. A. (Fig. 4) being fixed into top and bottom of float, and a coil-headed or
other suitably shaped pin F. (if required) fixed into body of float, rings as shown
by Figs. 1. 2. and 5 are also applicable for making this combination.
Figs. 8. and 9. "Improved combination attachment" consisting of any suitably
shaped lead (such as K & M respectively) and rings and eyes being secured at
each end of lead, and pin F in body, as similarly described in Fig. 6.
Fig. 7. J. represents an ordinary barrel float with rings A.. A. (as Fig. 1).
secured in each end, and bent at right angles to ends of float.
Fig. 10. represents one end of float with ring C (Fig. 2.) bound on to same.
Fig. 11. another conveniently shaped ring or eye A. with shank partly twisted
and ends opened out at right angles and flattened for binding on to side of floats.
Floats, leads or other articles fitted with either of the improved attachments
herein described can be quickly and securely attached to, or readily detached from
any part of fishing lines as required.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1892.
ALFRED JOHN TAY:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Connecting Floats, Leads, and
other Articles to Fishing Lines, and Improvements in Floats for
Angling Purposes.
ALFRED JOHN TAY, Victoria Street Redditch, Float Maker. I 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 (see drawings left with Provisional Specification) :-
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The nature of my invention as illustrated by drawings and referred to in the

page_text: Provisional Specification consists of a device for attaching floats, leads and other
articles to fishing lines also applicable for the easy detachment of same as required,
together with improved combinations of suitably shaped floats or leads with
conveniently-constructed rings or eyes as herein described and previously referred
to as aforesaid.
Figs. 1. 2. 4. 5 & 11. illustrate various forms for rings or eyes with twisted
shanks and are conveniently constructed from one piece of metal wire. Rings
similar to Fig. 1. & 5 can be made with either round or flattened shank as may be
necessary for the purpose, instead of twisted shank. The advantage of these rings
is chiefly obtained by the method or manner of passing the line through the
openings or between the wires forming the rings or eyes as herein described, by
which Hoats, leads or other articles-to which any of these rings are attached-
can be speedily attached to or detached from any part of the line as required. By
passing the line twice between the wires forming ring "A" (Fig. 4) either at the
head or bottom of float or lead, the same is held in the required position and
thus prevented from sliding up or down the line. To construct rings similar to
Figs. 1 and 2 I take a piece of metal wire and loop same round a * size rod or
stick" and then twist the two ends of wire (as B) and cut off to any required
length. I then cut through the wire forming the eye at "O" by which an opening
is made through which the line is passed into the eye. To make rings as per
Fig. 5. I loop wire in similar manner to that of Fig. 1 but in two loops or con-
volutions and twist the ends as before stated; I then cut through the second loop
or convolution of wire at any required point for the purpose of forming the
opening "O" as already described. To make rings similar to Fig. 4 I take the
wire and loop in two convolutions and twist in a similar manner as described in
Fig. 5 and cut both the wires or loops forming the ring "A" at any point con-
venient for making the openings "O. O." through either of which the line is
passed.
These rings can be made with any suitable metal in any required shape and
can be fixed to floats and leads of every description, and to other articles for the
attachment of same to lines for angling purposes.
Fig. 6 consists of a combination of any suitably shaped float as H (or lead K
Fig. 8.) and rings or eyes A. A. fixed into head and bottom of float (or into ends
of leads K. or M. Figs. 8 and 9) with or without pin "F" the line is passed
through or between the wires or loops forming the rings-once or twice-or
twisted round the pin F as most convenient for the purpose.
The advantage of this combination is in the security of the float or lead to the
line and its easy attachment to, or detachment from the same at any part, without
having to detach the line from the rod, as is the case with the old method where
the usual quill, plug, and cap are employed with floats and the usual fixed loops in
leads.
Fig. 3, consists of a long or barrel shaped float, in one end is cut a deep
channel or groove
"E" which divides the head of float to any required 'depth.
Into the top of one or both of the " uprights'
"X. Y: I fix one or two metal
staple or staples-as most suitable-at right angles and adjacent to each other;
at the other or opposite end I fix a metal ring of either form already referred to.
Pin F can be fixed into body of float if necessary. The line is passed into ring
at bottom then into the coil-headed pin F and under the staple or between the
staples into the channel or groove E.
The advantage of this combination is, that it can be used-by what is known
as a "fixed float or a "running float as the case may be.
"
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 :-
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page_text: and secure method of attaching floats, leads or other suitable articles to fishing
lines.
2nd. The combination of similarly shaped rings with floats or leads by which
their attachment to lines can be effected directly without the necessity of having
to detach the line from the rod and the annoyance of removing caps from floats or
threading loops in leads-as in former methods.
Dated this 21st day of September 1893.
ALFRED JOHN TAY.