An Apparatus for Threading Fish on wire.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1897
Complete Innoification Loft 13th Ane 1808 Accented 11th June 1898
An Apparatus for Threading Fish on wire.
1, EDVARD ANDERSEN, of Stavanger, in the Kingdom of Norway, Policeman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: ―
My invention relates to an improved apparatus for securing fish and the like
upon a wire in a regular row, for the purpose of smoking them or for any other
purpose.
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The invention consists essentially of a plank or table placed upon a suitable
support of any kind. One or all of the edges of the said table are fitted with a
row of projections in the form of a wedge each with its apex towards the table
and leaving a space corresponding to the size of the fish head between itself and.
the next wedge. Beneath the wedges aforesaid there is attached to the plank or
table a vertical rim, to which is bolted or otherwise secured a lath or strip of wood
or the like. To this lath is hinged below a similar lath bearing tapering notched
pieces corresponding to a similar row of tapering notched pieces attached to the
table. Through all the notches on the table passes an elastic-ribbon of india-
rubber or the like. The hinge piece also carries a projecting strip of zinc or the
like so arranged that when the apparatus is closed the said strip will come to lie
flat against the ends of the wedges first mentioned, and form a kind of door between
the same thus holding the fish, which is inserted in the apparatus head downwards
in place during the operation. There is also an angle-iron attached to the hinge
piece and it is secured by hinges. Whilst the row is being filled these angle-
irons are opened out, but when the fish are in place the angle-irons are closed,
thereby pressing the whole row of fishes against the india-rubber strip aforesaid
causing the heads of the same to come into the same position throughout. A
wire is then thrust through a groove cut in the projections and passing through
each fish head at the proper place thus stringing the whole row of fishes on the
said wire. The groove for the wire is cut half in the fixed and half in the hinged
pieces so that when the apparatus is opened the filled wire with fish can be easily
removed therefrom and the operation repeated.
I, EDVARD ANDERSEN, of Stavanger, in the Kingdom of Norway, Policeman,
5 do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
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page_text: to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement: —
My invention relates to an improved apparatus for securing fish and the like
upon a wire in a regular row, for the purpose of smoking them or for any other
purpose.
The invention consists essentially of a plank or table placed upon a suitable
support of any kind. One or all of the edges of the said table are fitted with a
row of projections in the form of a wedge each with its apex towards the table
and leaving a space corresponding to the size of the fish head between itself and
the next wedge. Beneath the wedges aforesaid there is attached to the plank or
table a vertical rim, to which is bolted or otherwise secured a lath or strip of wood
or the like. To this lath is hinged below a similar lath bearing tapering notched
pieces corresponding to a similar row of tapering notched pieces attached to the
table. Through all the notches on the table passes an elastic-ribbon of india-
rubber or the like. The hinge piece also carries a projecting strip of zinc or the
like so arranged that when the apparatus is closed the said strip will come to lie
flat against the ends of the wedges first mentioned, and form a kind of door between
the same thus holding the fish, which is inserted in the apparatus head downwards
in place during the operation. There is also an angle-iron attached to the hinge
piece and it is secured by hinges. Whilst the row is being filled these angle-
irons are opened out, but when the fish are in place the angle-irons are closed,
thereby pressing the whole row of fishes against the india-rubber strip aforesaid
causing the heads of the same to come into the same position throughout. A
wire is then thrust through a groove cut in the projections and passing through
each fish head at the proper place thus stringing the whole row of fishes on the
said wire. The groove for the wire is cut half in the fixed and half in the hinged
pieces so that when the apparatus is opened the filled wire with fish can be easily
removed therefrom and the operation repeated.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a plan view of part of the apparatus, the so called lock being let
down or opened.
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Figure 2 is a side view of the sanie, the lock having been lifted up or closed.
Figure 3 is an end view of the same, in a section on the line x-x Fig. 1, the
lock having been opened; this view is on an enlarged scale.
Figure 4 is the same section as Fig. 3 but the lock is shewn closed.
The apparatus consists of a table or a plate a which may be placed on the bottom
of a barrel or another suitable stand. One or all of the edges of this table is
fitted with the improved devices which effect an even threading of the fish on a
wire, and which form the threading apparatus proper. The more of these thread-
ing apparatuses that are connected with the table a, the greater of course the
number of persons who can work at the table. 6 is a number of wedge formed
knobs whose pointed ends are turned towards the table (Fig. 1). A cross piece c
(Fig. 3 and 4) is fastened to the edge of the table underneath these knobs, and
the so called lock is fitted to this cross-piece. The lock consists of a list d fixed
to.the.cross-piece c and fitted with a row of vertical, tapering notches e falling
between each of the knobs b, as will be seen from Fig. 1 and 2. Through all the
notches along the cross-piece c passes an elastic-ribbon f of indiarubber or some
other elastic material. To the list or part d there is by means of hinges 9 con-
nected a similar part or flap h with tapering notches c2 analogous with the notches e¹
and corresponding to these when the lock is closed. By these means there is formed
a row of holes consisting of the notches el ee, and in these holes (Fig. 4) the fish
are placed, having been inserted by the workman by hand singly between the
knobs head downwards. The piece i is a plate of zinc or the like, which, fastened
outside to the upper part of the part h, when the lock is closed (Fig. 4), will place
itself against the row of knobs b and hold in its position the fish that are successively
being pushed down. The piece k is an angle iron running along the notches c³,
and fitting into a slit in these. The angle iron is connected with the part h by

page_text: means of hinges 7 (Fig. 2, 3 and 4). When the fish is being put in, this angle
iron is opened out (see the dotted line Fig. 4), but when the whole row is full, the
angle iron is pushed in, thereby pressing the whole row of fish against the elastic
ribbon f. By this means all the heads of the fishes get in a straight line. This
having been done, a wire is pushed through the groove m that runs through the
whole row of notches, and all the fish are symmetrically and quickly threaded on
the wire. As may be plainly seen from Fig. 3, the groove m is formed by two
corresponding semi-cylindrical slits in the parts d and h. The filled wire is after-
wards removed from the apparatus, the part h having been let down (see Fig. 3).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An apparatus for threading fish on wire, characterized by having two
parts (d, h), connected by hinge-joints, and fitted with notches (o, e,) that corre-
spond, and which, when the parts (d h) have been pushed together, form pairs of
notches or holes into which the fish are placed head downwards, and afterwards
threaded on a wire, by a wire or the like being passed through a groove fitted in
both parts (d h), after which the wire with the fish on is easily removed from the
apparatus, the parts (d h) having been separated.
2. In apparatus of the kind set forth in Claim 1, the one part (d) provided with
an elastic ribbon (f) running along the row of notches, and the other part (h)
with a hinge-jointed, movable angle iron (k), between which parts (f ) the row
of fish placed in the notches is squeezed together and thereby brought in a straight
line so as to render possible an even, symmetrical threading.
3. In apparatuses of the kind mentioned in Claims 1 and 2, this apparatus, "the
lock," most suitably fitted to the edge of a table (a) provided with knobs (b) so as
to facilitate the partition of the fish singly in the notches (el e²).
4. The improved apparatus for threading fish on wire constructed and operating
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 13th day of April 1808
day of April 1908
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.