A New or Improved Casting Creel or Holder for Angling Purposes and Requisites.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Casting Creel or Holder for Angling Purposes
and Requisites.
I, PHILIP GEEN, of Davenham Lodge, Richmond in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, 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 :-
This invention relates to a new or improved casting-creel for angling purposes
and the same is also of utility for carrying to and fro or containing angling
requisites such as reels, winders and books, casts, floats and such like tackle or
provisions.
In casting the bait especially in the case of long-distance casts and in trolling or
spinning, it has been practised to coil the line at the feet of the angler or again,
as in the so-called "Nottingham" style to draw-in loops of the line and to cast
from the reel, which however necessitates to a great extent reeling-in at every cast.
In the first case should a twig or other such like obstruction be encountered by
the line, a kink of the line will take place so spoiling the cast which in many
cases may cause an entanglement of the line much to the trouble and delay of
the angler.
Moreover when reeling-in has to be performed after and preceeding every throw,
much time is lost in such operation.
The objects of this invention are (1) to provide a casting-creel, holder or tray
which may be strapped to the angler's waist and into which holder the line may
be coiled when hawling in, and (2) to so fit and make the said tray or holder or
casting-creel as that it may lend itself to convenience whilst in use as will herein-
after be more particularly set forth.
From the fact of the portability and advantages in the construction and use
of such holder, the angler will be enabled to move from place to place conveniently
and save time in getting his "casts" perfected so that he may attain to a simplicity
and efficiency in practice, the pastime somewhat more approaching that of "fly-
fishing" than has hitherto been possible in bottom-fishing of the kind contemplated
and referred to.
In a combined construction according to this invention, the casting creel or
coil-holder is provided with an inner tray or holder of sheet metal or other
material which will fit into the outer holder, said outer holder being of wicker
work.
In use the casting creel or coil-holder will be worn over the hip or side of
the angler and a depression or curvature of the side of the casting creel will be
made to set conveniently to the rounding of the user's body, so that the creel
holder will stand out like a tray to receive the coiled line. A lid is provided
to the creel and is attached by leather or flexible strap furnished at its free end
with a buckle to engage with a second strap or tongue on the opposite side of
the basket holder or creel. The attachment of the said buckle straps will be
by plates having a central headed stud passing through holes in the straps so
that the said straps may be turned around upon the shanks of the headed studs
on their plates and which said plates are rivetted or clamped on to the back and
front of the coil holder or creel. The lid is attached by a rivetted plate to the
leather or flexible strap carrying the buckle attached at the back of the basket.
This lid will be thus capable of two dispositions or uses, that is in one case as a
cover to the holder or basket and in the other case (when used to coil-in and carry
the slack line) the before casting straps will be turned around on the shanks of the

page_text: headed studs and their ends with the lid will be brought under the bottom of the
holder and be buckled neatly in position out of the way.
A convenient means of fastening or strapping this casting creel or holder to
the body of the wearer will be to make two upright slots in the back of the
creel or holder through both of which slots will be passed the tongue end of a
strap fitted at its other end with a buckle so as to securely buckle the coil
holder or creel to the side of the user in its horizontal tray-like position in
which it will be available to receive the coils of the slack line when hauled-in
or laid-in preparatorily to the next cast. The inner tray is furnished with like
holding strap-slots corresponding to those described as being provided in the coil-
holder basket or creel so that the same may be used together or separately by the
simple use of the waist strap.
An additional shoulder strap may be used if wished.
When the coiling-up of the slack line has been effected, the forearm of the
angler may be laid down on to the coils across the coil-holder or creel to
maintain them in undisturbed position until the next cast is to be taken and to
afford freedom of movement of the arm, and for this purpose the ends of the tray
or basket may be made of less height than the continuing sides thereof, so as to
give free motion of the elbow and wrist.
In the drawings annexed hereto a construction of this adjunct to the angler's
paraphernalia is represented.
Figure 1 shews in plan the holder with its lid open.
Figure 2 is a back view of same with lid closed and the ends of the waist or
holding strap projecting out from the slots in the back of the holder.
Figure 3 shews in isometric view the holder with the lid strapped down similarly
to Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a side view of Figure 1 with the lid strapped underneath the
holder.
a is the casting-creel or coil-holder proper fitted with the tongue and buckle
straps b and c, which are held at 6 and e¹ by the headed studs and securing plates
as before described, d is the plate whereby the lid a¹ is attached to the buckle
strap b. e are the slots in the creel through which are passed the waist holding-
strap to be buckled round the body of the user.
A.t is shewn the dwells or spaces in the continuous upstanding sides of the
creel, but this is expressed as a convenience and not absolutely as a necessity of
the combination.
The sheet metal lining or duplicate casting creel is not shewn on the drawings as
the description sufficiently ascertains its character and purpose.
Having thus 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 :
1. The casting-creel with its fastenings for use in angling as a receptacle and
means for holding and carrying the coiled slack-line between the winch and bait
as and for the purpose herein set forth.
:
2. The combined basket holder and sheet metal or other lining of the casting-
creel, substantially as herein specified.
Dated this 13th day of February 1202
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.