An Improvement in "Disgorgers" or Instruments for Extracting Fish-hooks from Fish.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 18th Jan., 1887,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in "Disgorgers" or Instruments for Extracting
Fish-hooks from Fish.
I, EDWIN HENRY GEORGE BREWSTER of 28 Camden Grove, Peckham Road S.E.
in the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for AN IMPROVEMENT IN DISGORGERS OR INSTRUMENTS FOR EXTRACTING FISH-
HOOKS FROM FISH, to be as follows:-
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My Improvement in "Disgorgers" or instruments for extracting fish-hooks from
fish consists of applying guides to "Disgorgers" so that the Disgorgers may be easily
guided along fishing lines to the hooks at their ends thereby enabling fishermen to
more readily, than is done at present, extract fish hooks from fish.
The Improved Disgorgers may be made of metal, bone, ivory, or any other suitable
material; and may be formed so as to have flat bodies with their two ends (after having
had V shaped openings made in them) bent to about a fourth part of a circle; both
ends being bent towards the same side. The bent ends with the openings form the
guides of the Improved Disgorger. Or the Improved Disgorger may be made with
only one bent end as above described having the other end flat but with a. long open
slot so made that on the Disgorger being held at the slotted end by the finger and
thumb there shall be room for the passage of a fishing-line between the said finger and
thumb and the sides of the slot. The bent end and the sides of the slot form the
guides. Or the Improved Disgorger may be made with guides formed by side pieces
projecting so as to partially enclose the fishing-line.
I do not limit myself to the particular form of guides herein described, but what
I claim as my invention is, the application of guides to disgorgers.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in "Disgorgers" or Instruments for Extracting
Fish-hooks from Fish.
I, EDWIN HENRY GEORGE BREWSTER of 28 Camden Grove, Peckham Road, S.E.
in the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for AN IMPROVEMENT IN "
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DISGORGERS OR INSTRUMENTS FOR EXTRACTING FISH-
HOOKS FROM FISH and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Improvement in Disgorgers or instruments for extracting fish-hooks from fish,
consists of applying guides to, or forming guides in "Disgorgers" so that they may be
easily guided along fishing lines to the hooks at the ends of the lines thereby enabling
fishermen to extract fish-hooks from fish more readily than is done at present.
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The Improved Disgorgers" may be made of metal, bone, ivory, or any other
suitable material, and may be formed so as to have flat bodies, with their two opposite
ends curved as shown at (b) in the side view, and front view of No. 1 on the Sheet of
drawings the ends have openings made in them. The curved ends form the guides
of the Improved Disgorger.
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The Improved Disgorger" may take the form shown by the side view, and front
view of No. 2 on the Sheet of Drawings where in place of the curved guides at the
upper end of the instrument a slot (a) is formed in the body so that when the
instrument is used, and is grasped by the thumb and fingers the fishing line can be
enclosed; the sides of the slot (a) then acting as guides.
No. 3 on the sheet of Drawings shows another form of the Improved "Disgorger"
with guides (c) attached to the sides.
The Improved "Disgorger" may have the slot (a) of No. 2 applied to either No. 1,
or No. 3, in addition to the guides they already have.
I do not limit myself to the particular form of guides for "Disgorgers" herein-
before described.
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 -—
First, the application of guides to "Disgorgers" or instruments for extracting fish-
hooks from fish.
Secondly, the forms of the instrument described, and shown in the drawing.
Thirdly, any combination of the forms of the instrument described and shown.