IMPROVEMENTS IN FISH HOOKS
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSES
POOLB, of the Patent Office, London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of
January (One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven), in the tenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, and assigns,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as
I, tho said Moses Poole, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, and in the
Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FISH HOOKS," communicated to me by a certain Foreigner
residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said Moses Poole, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument under my hand and scal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare that the nature of the Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say-
.
The Invention consists of certain modes of constructing fish hooks that by
the aid of instruments combined therewith the holding of fish thereon will
be more certain than is the case with hooks of the ordinary construction.
And in order that the Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and the figures and letters marked thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a fish hook when baited ready for receiving a fish. Figure 2
shows the hook when what I call the retaining instrument has been let go
by a pull upon the hook. a, the hook. 6 is what I call the retaining instru-
ment, which is attached to the stem of the hook at c, there being a stop at d
to prevent the instrument 6 coming too far. e is a spring which has at all
times a tendency to move the retaining instrument into the position shewn
at Figure 2. The spring is affixed to the stem of the hook a, and is
connected to the instrument 6 by means of the short link f. On the retaining
instrument 6 is a notch g, into which the end of the sliding bolt h enters;
such sliding bolt being slotted is attached by studs to the stem of the hook a,
the studs having enlarged heads so as to retain the sliding bolt secure to the
stem of the hook a. The line is attached to the sliding bolt, and when in
use the hook a will be baited in the ordinary manner, and the parts will be
in the position shown at Figure 1. When a fish takes the hook and pulls
upon it, the sliding bolt will move and release the retaining instrument,
which will by the spring assume the position shewn at Figure 2, and the
fish will thereby be held more securely on the hook. The apparatus may be
varied without departing from the Invention, and in order to shew that such
is the case I have in the Drawing represented variations in the construction

page_text: and combination of the retaining instruments. Figure 3 shows an arrange-
ment where it is not necessary that the fish should be hooked as in the.
first instance. In this arrangement the bait is to be put on the
barbed instrument b, whilst the hook a is retained till a fish takes the
bait and pulls thereon, the hook a will be released and strike, when the
hook will assume the position shewn by dotted lines, and thus retain the
fish securely on the hook. The barbed instrument 6 has a slot by which
it is attached by studs to the stem i so as to be able to slide on the stem.
jis a wire by which the barbed instrument a is attached to the lever catch k,
moving on a stud or axis at / on the stem i. The hook a is acted on by
The hook a
the spring m, with a tendency to draw it down to strike a fish.
moves on an axis at n, and has a notch which is taken hold of by the catch k,
till a fish takes hold of the bait on the barbed instrument b, when the pressure
thus caused will move the instrument 6 and release the hook a from the catch,
and the parts would assume the positions shown by the dotted lines in
Figure 8.
Another arrangement of this apparatus is shewn at Figure 4, where the
hook or barbed instrument a, on which the bait is put, is directly attached
to the catch k, which takes into a notch in the hook b, which has at all times
a tendency to pass down into the position shown by dotted lines in this
Figure by its spring, in a like manner to what is described in respect to the
hook shown in Figure 8. The stem of the hook a passes through a hole
in the end of the stem, as shewn, and when the bait is taken hold of by a
fish the parts will assume the position shown by the dotted lines, the hook b
acting as the retaining instrument to the hook a, and as both hooks are
barbed hooks they will tend to hold the fish with greater certainty than other
hooks.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed. I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the details so long as the peculiar character of the Invention
be retained. But what I claim is, the combining of fish hooks with appa-
ratus such as herein described for aiding the hooks to hold fish with more
certainty.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
MOSES (L.B.) POOLE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1847, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.