Improvements in the Manufacture of Fish Hooks.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fish Hooks.
We, WILLIAM MORTON STANLEY, trading as Morton Stanley of London
Works, Redditch, Fishing Tackle Manufacturer, and WILLIAM SMALLWOOD
trading as John Smallwood, Lion Works, Redditch, Fish Hook and Fishing
Tackle Manufacturer, both in the County of Worcester, do hereby declare the
nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of fish hooks,
by which the said manufacture is greatly facilitated and expedited & the work can
be done with less accomplished work people so that the cost of production is
considerably reduced & besides all this the hooks are superior in quality and more
regular or exact in their shape.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect we have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which we have fully illustrated representations of the work as it passes
through the various operations. It will be readily understood that the examples
shewn are increased in size so as to clearly represent the smaller portions. We
however make these hooks in all sizes & finish them to any pattern.
Figure 1 represent a pointed piece of wire A or metal from which the hook
is made.
Figure 2 shews the same piece of wire A with the barb a³ produced in the
ordinary well known manner.
Figure 3 represent by side section & front elevation the third process through
which the piece A passes as it is formed into the required shape and this operation
is the most important one in our new invention as will be hereafter described.
Figure 4 represent the piece A in side & front elevation made into what is
known in the trade as an "hollow point."
Figure 5 represent the piece A in side and front elevation made into what is
known in the trade as "out point."
By the first operation we produce the pointed piece of metal A as seen at
Figure 1. By the second operation we produce the barb a' as seen at Figures 2.
and both these operations are old and well known to the trade. The usual course
is to file by hand the point a³ Figure 2 until it assumes either the finished "hollow
point" as seen at Figure 4 or the "out point" as seen at Figures 5. The only
difference between the two is the outward bend of the point at a as seen at
Figures 5.
Now instead of so filing or forming the metal away at a Figure 2 by hand we
put the piece A into an anvil or block and strike a blow upon the part a³ which
produces the hollow as seen at a which gives the exact hollow or curve required at
the centre to form the point as seen at Figure 4. The blow given however forces
the metal outwards right and left leaving a bulge on each side. These bulges are
however most easily removed without skilled labour and with a flat file and when
so removed leave the point exactly curved as seen at Figure 4 i.e. the "hollow
point." When the "out point" is required this is formed by either hand or in the
tools or partly by one and the other as may be desired but in both cases the
hollow at the root of the barb is formed by the blow given upon that part so that
the metal is consolidated and toughened just where strength is required. It will
also be seen that great regularity and uniformity of shape results from our new
mode of manufacture besides the process being cheapened and superior work
produced.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improvements in the manufacture of fish hooks in which the hollowing at
the root of the barb is produced by a blow or pressure and afterwards finished 5
substantially as herein set forth and as illustrated upon the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 25th day of April 1892.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.