Improved Case for Holding or Storing Fishing Hooks and Snoods or Gut.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Case for Holding or Storing Fishing Hooks and Snoods
or Gut.
We, JOHN ELSDEN MARTIN, Gun Maker, 20, Exchange Square, in the City of
Glasgow, and HENRY LEWIS BELLASIS, Clergyman, Clova, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient form of
portable case for holding or storing hooks and more especially busked fly hooks and
the snoods or gut attached to them.
The improved case is made of flat box form having one end hinged to the back
and the face or front plate hinged to one side so that the case may be opened at
the top end to display the hooks within or at both top and face to gain access to
a holder within upon which the hooks and gut are fixed.
The hinged top end is preferably bulged or enlarged to a greater depth or thick-
ness than the main flat part of the case so as to provide ample space for the hooks
and the flies or feathers busked on them, and it is closed or held by a spring catch
or like device on the front lid or hinged face of the box, which latter is also held
closed by a catch; and both hinged parts may be opened by springs on releasing
the catches. The hook holder fitted within the case is composed of a flat piece of
cork or wood or other material having a strip of cork or other soft substance at one
end into which the points or barbs of the hooks are pressed, whilst the snoods or
gut attached to the hooks are led in parallel lines around the flat holder and near
their ends are passed each into a slit in a cross strip of rubber or like elastic
material on the back of the holder; the slitted rubber strip serving to keep the
lines of gut apart and taut.
By the arrangement described on opening the top end of the case a suitable
hook may be selected, lifted from off the cork strip and drawn out without risk
of entangling the snood or gut with that of any of the hooks remaining in the
case and the hooks and gut may be readily replaced after use by opening up the
case and removing the hook holder.
lated this 18th day of Varambon 1907
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improved Case for Holding or Storing Fishing Hooks and Snoods
or Gut.
We, JOHN ELSDEN MARTIN, 20 to 22, Exchange Square, Glasgow, and HENRY
LEWIS BELLASIS, Balnacoil, Aboyne, late of Clova, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, N.B.,
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:-
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This invention relates to an improved case for holding or storing fishing hooks
and snoods or gut the object of which is to enable the flies to be carried ready to
be at once put on and fished with, instead of having to open a fly book, select the
packet of flies, untwist, refold and replace and finally to uncoil the fly selected.
The case also by its construction effectually prevents the flies from being crushed.
But in order that our said invention may be more readily understood and easily
carried into effect we have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings
in which:
Fig. 1 is a front view of our improved case with the top lid open, and
Fig. 2 a section of same with the lid closed.
As shewn in the said drawings the case, which may be constructed of any thin
light metal, is fitted with a frame A having a strip of cork or other suitable
material arranged at the top thereof to receive the points of the hooks. This
frame is covered with baize or other suitable cloth or material band is provided
at the back with a strip of rubber B or its equivalent having a number of slots
arranged so that when the hook is in position the gut thereof is passed round the
bottom of the frame and secured by being drawn into the said slots. The said
frame when having all the hooks secured thereto is inserted in the metal case by
the lid C which is hinged at the side of the case and may be opened under the
influence of a spring when released by the catch c. The lid D is shaped as shewn
to protect the flies and is hinged and secured in a similar way to the front lid.
It will thus be seen that when it is desired to remove a hook from the case all that
is necessary is to open the lid D and pull the hook out of the cork continuing to
draw it until the gut is free of the slot in the strip B at the back of the frame.
If desired the lid D may be made larger or that is to say arranged to open a
little lower down to enable a second row of flies to be secured.
The case may also be employed for containing eyed hooks without gut if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The case for holding or storing fishing hooks and snoods or gut, constructed
substantially in the manner as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Doted be 18th day of August IxUX
18th day of
aust
JOHNSONS,
Applicants' Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.