Improvements in Fishing Appliances.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 11th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fishing Appliances.
1. EBENEZER HOWIE BRAID WOOD of 104 West Princes Street, Glasgow, Lanark-
shire, House Painter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The usual method adopted in line fishing, where more than one line is used, is to
hold one line in the hand and attach the others to the side of the boat, or, when fishing
from a pier to the part of the pier where the fisherman is stationed. With this
method, as will be readily understood, the fisherman has no guide whatever to
indicate when a fish is hooked on the lines attached to the boat or other place.
This invention has for its object to overcome the difficulty by constructing a
fishing appliance which will automatically indicate to the fisherinan when a fish has
taken the bait.
The fishing appliance consists of a board or piece of wood or metal which, when
fishing from a boat is secured by a clamp to the gunwale or other convenient part or
is secured thereto by means of a pin fitting in the rowlock or thole-pin hole. The
board arm or equivalent projects over the side of the boat and has fulerumed to its
near end a long spring lever which has at its outer end a hole loop or equivalent made
in or on it. The lever is capable of springing upwards when released from a weighted
Instead of
or spring catch or clutch fitted to the outer end of the board or arm.
using a spring lever as aforesaid a piece of stout wire coiled at one end in a sufficient
number of turns to give it a spring action may be used. The wire would be turned
at its outer end into a loop or coil.
When fishing from a pier or other place the appliance is attached in any convenient
situation.
When working with the appliance the fishing line is passed through the hole at the
end of the spring lever or the loop at the end of the wire and is fixed to the board or
to the gunwale of the, boat or to other convenient part. The spring lever is then
pressed downwards and caught by the clutch or catch. When a fish is hooked the
sudden jerk on the line is sufficient to throw over or release the clutch or catch, when
the spring lever or equivalent immediately springs upwards, thus calling the fisher-
man's attention. The fisherman then pulls in the line as usual.
Dated this 4th day of December 1880
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70. Wellington Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fishing Appliances.
I, EBENEZER HOWIE BRAIDWOOD of 104 West Princes Street, Glasgow, Lanark-
shire, House Painter, 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 :-
With
The usual method adopted in line fishing, where more than one line is used, is to
hold one line in the hand and attach the others to the side of the boat, or, when
fishing from a pier to the part of the pier where the fisherman is stationed.
this method, as will be readily understood, the fisherman has no guide whatever to
indicate when a fish is hooked on the lines attached to the boat or other place.
This invention has for its object to overcome the difficulty by constructing a fishing
appliance which will automatically indicate to the fisherman when a fish has taken
the bait.
The fishing appliance consists of a board or piece of wood or metal which, when
fishing from a boat is secured by a clamp to the gunwale or other convenient part or
is secured thereto by means of a pin fitting in the rowlock or thole-pin hole. The
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page_text: board, arm or equivalent projects over the side of the boat and has fulcrumed to its
near end a long spring lever which has at its outer end a hole, loop or equivalent
made in or on it. The lever is capable of springing upwards when released from a
weighted or spring catch or clutch fitted to the outer end of the board or arm.
Instead of using a spring lever as aforesaid a piece of stout wire coiled at one end
in a sufficient number of turns to give it a spring action may be used. The wire would
be turned at its outer end into a loop or coil.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon—
Fig. 1 represents in side elevation one arrangement of the fishing appliance.
Fig. 2 represents in side elevation a modified arrangement of the appliance.
Fig. 3 is an end view to an enlarged scale, and
Fig. is a view showing a boat with the appliances fitted thereto.
I will now describe my invention, reference being had to the drawings, on which
the same letters wherever repeated indicate similar or like parts.
e, one
Referring to Fig. 1 :--It will be seen that in this arrangement, the appliance consists
The board a
of a board a which is secured to the gunwale b of the boat by a clamp c.
which projects out over the side of the boat, as shown, has fulcrumed to it, at
end of a spring lever f. The lever f is normally held in the position shown by means
of a catch g which is capable of turning in the staples or bearings h. The catch g
may be of the form shown in side view at Fig. 3, having a weighted hack part gl and
a long narrow nose g² which catches and holds the lever f. The catch instead of
being weighted as hereinbefore described may be a spring catch. Whenever the
lever is released from the catch g it is caused to spring upwards by a spiral or other
spring. The fishing line is, preferably, led over a fork j fitted on top of the
lever and then down through a hole k or a fork made in the outer extremity of the
lever as indicated in dotted lines.
The appliance, as shown at Fig. 2, consists of a piece of stout wire m which is bent
or coiled at its inner end so as to form a spring at m¹. The end of the wire may be
fitted into the wood of the board a and it may also be held in position by a staple, h¹.
The
The outer end of the wire is preferably coiled in two or three turns as at n.
appliance is in this case secured to the boat by means of a pin p which is fitted into
the rowlock or thole-pin hole. The line may be secured to two pins 9 at the inner
end and be passed, as shown, over the spring m³, then turned over the coil n and passed
back again over a knob or hook fitted to the back of the catch g. By passing the
line over the hook or knob r additional power is given to the tug of the fish on the
line, so that the spring lever will be more easily released.
When fishing from a pier or other place the appliance is attached in any convenient
situation.
When working with the appliance the fishing line is passed through the hole at
the end of the spring lever for the loop n at the end of the wire m and is fixed to the
board a or to the gunwale 6 of the boat or to other convenient part. The spring
When a fish
lever is then pressed downwards and caught by the clutch or catch g.
is hooked the sudden jerk on the line is sufficient to throw over or release the clutch
or catch g when the spring lever or equivalent immediately springs upwards, as
indicated in dotted lines at Fig. 4; thus calling the fisherman's attention. The
fisherman then pulls in the line as usual.
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 1
claim is―
A fishing appliance made substantially as herein before described and shown under
modified arrangements on the drawings annexed and for the purpose set forth.
Dn 4th day of Santamber 1900
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.