New or Improved Devices for Attaching Floats and Leads to and Detaching them from Fishing Lines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Devices for Attaching Floats and Leads to and
Detaching them from Fishing Lines.
We, HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED of Washford Mills Redditch, in the
County of Worcester Needle and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers, and WILLIAM
GUISE, of No. 26 Hewell Road, Redditch aforesaid Needle and Fishing Tackle
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The devices constituting this invention for attaching floats and leads to and
detaching them from fishing lines consist essentially of spring or elastic grips or
bites for gripping and releasing the lines and eyes or rings for retaining the lines,
the said grips or bites and eyes or rings being constructed and used substantially as
hereinafter described.
We will first describe the improved devices for attaching floats to fishing
lines.
In applying this invention to floats for ordinary bottom fishing we attach near
the top of the float and at right angles thereto a combined eye or loop and spring
grip or bite, the said combined eye and grip being used in combination with the
ordinary eye or loop at the bottom end of the float. The said combined eye and
grip consists of a doubled piece of elastic wire that part nearest the float being
bent into an elliptical figure, the wire at the outer end being nearly closed so
as to form two parallel gripping or elastic arms between which the line can be
gripped.
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In connecting the float to the line the said line is passed through the ordinary
eye at the bottom of the float and through the eye part of the combined eye and
elastic grip near the top of the float. After the position of the float has by a
sliding motion on the line been adjusted the line is drawn outwards so as to cause
it to pass between the elastic arms of the gripping device, which arms closing upon
the line fix the float in its adjusted position; by drawing the line towards the float
the latter is released and may be adjusted or removed.
Instead of arranging the gripping device horizontally it may be arranged
vertically, that is, it may be turned down or turned up. In this case, the line is
fastened in the gripping end of the device by drawing it downwards or upwards.so
as to cause it to enter the closed or doubled end of the wire.
In applying the devices to runner or travelling floats or floats for a set 'or
arranged depth of fishing and for other uses for which they are applicable we
modify them in the following manner.
We fix near each end of the float a horizontal combined eye and elastic grip but
instead of arranging the eye part near the float we arrange it at the extreme end
of the device. In this case the fastening of the float to the line is effected by
pressing the line towards the float so as to cause it to pass between the closed or
elastic arms of the gripping parts of the devices, the fixed line being situated. in
contact or nearly in contact with the float. In adjusting the float it is necessary
to pull outwards the line at each end of the float so as to bring the said line into
the eye parts of the devices when the float can be made to run or travel at both
ends on the line for adjusting its position; it is then refixed by pressing the line
inwards as before described.
In applying the said invention to detachable floats, we use at the top of the
float a spring grip consisting of a doubled piece of wire so as to form two parallel
spring arms similar to that in the device before described excepting that it has po
eye or loop, and we use with the said elastic grip a spring ring at the bottom of the
float of the kind described and claimed in the Specification of Letters Patent

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granted to one of us, namely the said William Guise on the thirtieth day of
December 1887, No. 17927, or of either of the kinds hereinafter described.
fastening the float to the line the line is secured to the spring ring at the bottom
of the float and then by an outward motion introduced between the spring arms of
the elastic grip near the top of the float; by a contrary motion of the line the float
may be completely detached from it.
In place of the patented spring ring referred to, modified rings or eyes of either
of the following kinds may be used at the bottom end of the float. One of the
said modified rings consists of two wire rings arranged side by side at a short
distance apart their axes coinciding. Each ring is not quite closed but has an
opening at bottom through which the line may be passed, the openings in the two
rings being situated at opposite sides. In securing the line to this compound or
double ring or eye the line is passed between the two rings. By then moving the
line in opposite directions it passes through the openings in the rings and enters
both rings. By a contrary motion of the line it may be detached from the
compound ring or eye.
or
Or the compound or double ring or eye may be made from one piece of wire by
coiling it into two flat convolutions. In fixing the line it is first passed between,
'the two convolutions at the back; then passed under the open end and finally
passed at the base into the coils; it is thereby engaged with the compound eye
loop. Or the line may be passed first into the coil at the base; then between the
coils and finally under the open end of the coils. By a contrary motion of the line
it may be disengaged from the eye or loop.
In attaching leads to fishing lines according to this invention we arrange in the
axis of the hollow or tubular lead a wire having at its ends elastic grips of the
kind hereinbefore described between which grips the line is passed to secure
the lead to the line.
Dated this 10th day of May 1891
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
New or Improved Devices for Attaching Floats and Leads to and
Detaching them from Fishing Lines.
We, HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED, of Washford Mills, Redditch, in the
County of Worcester, Needle and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers, and WILLIAM
GUISE, of No. 26 Hewell Road, Redditch, aforesaid, Needle and Fishing Tackle
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The devices constituting this invention for attaching floats and leads to and
detaching them from fishing lines consist essentially of spring or elastic grips or
bites for gripping and releasing the lines and eyes or rings for retaining the lines,
the said grips or bites and eyes or rings being constructed and used substantially
as hereinafter described.
We will first describe the improved devices for attaching floats to fishing
:'lines.
In applying this invention to floats for ordinary bottom fishing we attach near
the top of the float and at right angles thereto, a combined eye or loop and spring
grip or bite, the said combined eye and grip being used in combination with the
ordinary eye or loop at the bottom end of the float. The said combined eye and
grip consists of a doubled piece of elastic wire that part nearest the float being
: bent into a semi-elliptical figure, the wire at the outer end being nearly closed
to form two parallel gripping or elastic arms between which the line
A so as
can be gripped..
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page_text: In connecting the float to the line the said line is passed through the ordinary
eye at the bottom of the float and through the eye part of the combined eye and
elastic grip near the top of the float. After the position of the float has by a
sliding motion on the line, been adjusted the line is drawn outwards so as to cause
it to pass between the elastic arms of the gripping device, which arms closing upon
the line fix the float in its adjusted position; by drawing the line towards the float
the latter is released and may be adjusted or removed.
Instead of arranging the gripping device horizontally it may be arranged
vertically, that is, it may be turned down or turned up. In this case, the line is
fastened in the gripping end of the device by drawing it downwards or upwards so
as to cause it to enter the closed or doubled end of the wire.
set or
In applying the devices to runner or travelling floats or floats for a
arranged depth of fishing and for other uses for which they are applicable, we
modify them in the following manner.
We fix near each end of the float a horizontal combined eye and elastic grip but
instead of arranging the eye part near the float we arrange it at the extreme end
of the device. In this case the fastening of the float to the line is effected by
pressing the line towards the float so as to cause it to pass between the closed or
elastic arms of the gripping parts of the devices, the fixed line being situated in
contact or nearly in contact with the float. In adjusting the float it is necessary to
pull outwards the line at each end of the float so as to bring the said line into the
eye parts of the devices when the float can be made to run or travel at both ends
on the line for adjusting its position; it is then refixed by pressing the line
inwards, as before described.
In applying the said invention to detachable floats, we use at the top of the
float, a spring grip consisting of a doubled piece of wire, so as to form two nearly
parallel spring arms, similar to that in the device before described excepting that
it has no eye or loop, and we use preferably with the said elastic grip, a spring ring
at the bottom of the float of the kind hereinafter described. In fastening the
float to the line, the line is secured to the spring ring at the bottom of the float and
then by an outward motion introduced between the spring arms of the elastic grip
near the top of the float; by a contrary motion of the line the float may be
completely detached from it.
The ring or eye at the bottom of the float consists of two wire rings arranged
side by side at a short distance apart their axes coinciding. Each ring is not quite
closed but has an opening through which the line may be passed, the openings in
the two rings being situated at opposite sides. In securing the line to this
compound or double ring or eye, the line is passed between the two rings. By
then moving the line in opposite directions it passes through the openings in the
rings and enters both rings. By a contrary motion of the line it may be detached
from the compound ring or eye.
In attaching leads to fishing lines according to this invention we arrange in the
axis of the hollow or tubular lead a wire having at its ends elastic grips of the kind
hereinbefore described between which grips the line is passed to secure the lead
to the line.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing
the manner in which the said invention is to be performed.
C,
Figure 1 represents in elevation and Figure 2 in plan a float for ordinary bottom
fishing to which float a combined eye or loop and spring grip or bite constructed
according to this invention is applied. a is the float and the fishing line;
d represent the combined eye or loop and spring grip or bite attached near the
top of the float at right angles thereto. The eye part of the holding device is
marked c and the spring grip is marked d. The shape of the combined eye and
spring grip is best seen in the plan Figure 2. By referring to the said Figure 2
it will be seen that the combined eye and grip consists of a doubled piece of elastic
wire, the part c of the wire nearest the float, constituting the eye or loop, being
bent into a semi-elliptical figure, and the wire at the outer end being doubled and.

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the doubled part nearly closed so as to form two-parallel gripping or elastic
arms at d between which the line.b can be gripped.
In connecting the float a to the line the said line is passed. through the
ordinary eye at the bottom of the float and through the eye part e of the
combined eye and elastic grip as indicated in dotted lines in. Figure 1.
After
the position of the float has by a sliding motion been adjusted on the line, the
line is drawn outwards so as to cause it to pass between the elastic arms d of
the gripping device as represented in Figure 1, which elastic arms closing upon the
line fix the float in its adjusted position. By drawing the line towards the float,
into the dotted position indicated in Figure 1, it is released from the spring grip or
gripping device and may be adjusted or removed.
Figure 3 represents in elevation, a runner or travelling float, or a float for a
set or arranged depth of fishing, to which float improved combined eyes and elastic
grips constructed according to this invention are applied, and Figure 4 represents
a cross section of the float and one of the eyes and grips drawn to a larger scale;
is the runner or travelling float and g is the line; hi; h, i are the combined eyes
and grips fixed near each end of the float f. The grip part is marked and the
eye or loop part of each device is marked h. By referring to Figure 4 it will be
seen that the eye part in this modification is situated at the extreme end of the
device, instead of near the float.
11.
In fastening the float to the line, the line is pressed towards the float as
represented in Figure 3 so as to cause the said line to pass between the nearly
closed or elastic arms i, i of the gripping parts of the devices, the fixed line being
situated nearly in contact with the float. For the purpose of adjusting the float,
the line is pulled outwards at each end of the float. The line is thereby brought
into the eye parts h, h of the devices, as indicated in dotted lines, so that the float
may be made to run or travel at both of its ends on the line for adjusting its
position. By then pressing the line inwards into the position represented in
Figure 2, the float is refixed to the line.
Figure 5 represents in elevation, a detachable float to which a spring grip
constructed according to this invention is applied and Figure 6 represents a plan
of the spring grip drawn to a larger scale. The double or compound ring at the
bottom of the float is also made according to this invention. The spring grip on
the float is marked k and consists of a doubled piece of elastic wire so as to form
two nearly parallel spring arms between which the line m can be gripped; that is,
by pressing the line outwards it passes into the tapering space between the
arms of the elastic grip k and is thereby gripped; and by drawing the line
towards the float, it is disengaged from the spring grip and the float released
from the line.
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We use at the bottom of the float la double or compound wire ring of the kind
represented in Figure 5 and drawn to a larger scale in Figures 7, 8 and 9. This
ring consists of two wire rings arranged side by side and marked respectively
p and q. Each ring has an opening near the bottom of the float, the openings in
the two rings being at opposite sides; that is, they break joint or are not opposite
one another.
In securing the line m to the compound or double ring or eye p, q the line is
first passed between the two rings; the line is then moved in one direction so as to
cause it to pass through the opening in the ring p into the said ring as illustrated
in Figure 7 and the line is then moved in the other direction so as to cause it to
pass through the opening in the other ring into the said ring as illustrated in
Figure 8. The line is thereby situated in both of the rings p, q and in consequence
of the positions of the openings in the two rings the line cannot be drawn from
them. By contrary motions of the line to those described it may be detached
from the compound ring or eye.
Figures 10 and 11 represent elevations taken at right angles to one another of a
float in which the spring grip is inclined to the float instead of at right angles
thereto. In this case the line is drawn upwards into the elastic grip k to fasten

page_text: the float to the line and drawn down the elastic grip to release the float from
the line.
Figure 12 represents in elevation, partly in section, and Figure 13 in plan
our improved combined eyes and spring grips used for attaching a tubular or
hollow lead to a line; s is the tubular or hollow lead and is the line to which it
is to be attached. In the axis of the leads is a wire t having at each endland
external to the lead a combined eye and spring grip the eye being marked u
and the spring grip u³. By drawing the line s into the spring grips u, u the lead
is attached to the line and by drawing the line towards the lead, the line passes
into the eyes u, u and the lead may be adjusted on the line and refastened or
wholly removed from the line.
Spring grips of the kinds represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 may also be
used with tubular leads in place of the combined grips and eyes represented.
Figure 14 represents a plumb lead attached to the line by the use of a spring
grip of the kind represented in Figures 5 and 6. The spring grip is marked and
the plumb lead y, and the line y². The lead is attached to the line by drawing
the line between the arms of the spring grip and the lead is disconnected from the
line by drawing the line to the open end of the spring grip as before described in
attaching a float to and disconnecting it from the line.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention of "New or improved devices for attaching floats and
leads to and detaching them from fishing lines":—
First The combined eyes or loops and spring grips or bites for attaching
floats to and releasing them from fishing lines herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawing.
Secondly-The spring grips or bites for detachable floats herein before
described and illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 10 and 11 of the accompanying
drawing.
Thirdly-The compound or double ring or eye hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 5, 7, 8 and 9 of the accompanying drawing for securing
fishing lines to the bottoms of detachable floats.
Fourthly Attaching leads to and detaching them from fishing lines by
means of combined eyes and spring grips, or spring grips only of the kinds and
used substantially as herein before described and illustrated with respect to
Figures 12, 13 and 14 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the Tenth day of February 1892.
HENRY MILWARD & SONS, LIMITED,
By Charles F. Milward, Director.
WILLIAM GUISE.