An Improvement in Fishing Reels.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Fishing Reels.
1, CHARLES HENRY COOK Barrister-at-law of Elmlea, South Stoke, Reading
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In this invention the use of making fishing reels of the Nottingham type is
reduced and the reels are simplyfied and improved by three portions of the reel
being cut or stamped out of sheet metal, the said portions being (1) the back
(2) the foot or portion by which the reel is affixed to the rod and (3) a line-guard
shaped like the well known Bickerdyke line guard which has hitherto been made of
a piece of wire. The metal having been cut or stamped the required shape, is bent
to a proper form and a wooden or vulcanite reel fitted to the back so constructed.
The usual check apparatus may be fitted on reel to the back as may be desired.
Dated this Ninth day of April 1893.
COME LEIE SI DUIFICATION,
An Improvement in Fishing Reels.
I, CHARLES HENRY COOK, of Elmlea, South Stoke, Reading 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:-
In this invention the manufacture of fishing reels of the Nottingham type with
line-guards of the kind hereinafter described and commonly known as the
Bickerdyke line guards, is simplified and cheapended by stamping the guard
together with the circular back of the reel, its scoop or plate, and the neck
connecting the scoop or plate with the back, out of one piece of sheet metal.
A die or stamp is made to cut sheet metal-steel being the metal most suitable-
to the form shown in the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. The scoop or reel
plate (SS) is then bent at right angles to the circular back (B P) of the reel at
the point B or a little lower down the neck (N) connecting the scoop with the
back plate, which neck is with advantage slightly incurved. The length of the
neck (N) necessarily depends upon the length of the spindle of the reel or width
of the reel. The width of the line-guard also necessarily depends on the width of
the reel. One end of the spindle on which the reel works is fixed by means of a
screw nut brazing or otherwise in the centre of the metal backplate (BP). To
place the line guard in position it should be bent at right angles to the backplate
at P and the unattached end fixed to the back plate by means of rivet screw
brazing or other method of joining metals common among metal workers. The
portion of the line guard parallel with the back-plate when fixed should work just
over the edge of the reel but should not project at all inwards or it would touch
and fray the line. This side of the guard should be curved to the same curve as
the edge of the reel and the edges of the guard should be smoothed with file or
otherwise. The proper position of the guard is shown in Figure 2. Reels made
in this manner may be fitted with the check mechanism in common use on
Nottingham reels and may be of any size required by anglers, a die being required
for each size made. The sheet metal used should be of proportionate thickness to
the size of the reel.

page_text: 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-
A fishing reel of the Nottingham type in which a circular back-plate, scoop,
neck between scoop and back plate, and the line-guard of the peculiar pattern
herein described, are all stamped out of one piece of sheet metal in the manner
herein described.
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