Improvements in Fish-hooks.
Year: 1892

page_text: being date of first Foreign Application (in 12th June, 1891
United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fish-hooks.
:
1, JOHN THOMAS EICHELBERGER, of 2203 Dodrer Street, St. Louis, in the-
County of St. Louis and State of Missouri, United States of America, Inventor,
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:-
My improvement has for its object to prevent or to lessen the liability of the
twisting of the line attached to the hook, a difficulty frequently experienced in
fishing, and especially when live bait is being used. I overcome the difficulty
referred to by so connecting the hook with its line that the hook can be turned
around horizontally without imparting its motion to the line, substantially as is
hereinafter described and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of
this Specification, in which-
Figure is an elevation exhibiting the improved hook attached to a line as in
use; and
Figs. 2 and 3 details upon an enlarged scale, Fig. 2 being a horizontal section of
Fig. 3, which is a side elevation showing the upper end of the hook and the lower
portion of the swivel to which the hook is immediately attached.
The same letters of reference denote the same parts.
The hook A, line B, and float Care of the usual construction, saving as modified
or supplemented by the improvement under consideration. At its upper end the
shank a of the hook is extended horizontally, or thereabout, and preferably in the
direction of the general plane of the barb a' of the hook, and is provided with or
shaped to form an eye a², which in conjunction with the ring D, having the headed
pin d engaging in said eye, as shown, constitutes a swivel, which connects the hook
with the line, substantially as shown. Thus connected the hook can turn around
freely upon the pin d without drawing the line with it, and the twisting or kinking
of the line is thereby avoided.
At the same time any downward pull upon the hook is transmitted to the line
aud float and is at ouce made manifest by the movement of the float in the water E,
in the usual manner.
I desire not to be restricted to any special form of swivel construction for
uniting the hook and line; but I regard the construction exhibited as being
desirable, partly because of its simplicity and cheapness and partly because a
downward strain exerted upon the barb of the hook is by reason of the eye a³ being
turned, as described, transmitted to a point more directly over the barb than is the
case in the use of an ordinary fish-hook, and partly because the overhanging eye
and line is of assistance in preventing the fouling of the barb when the hook is.
raised.

page_text: Having now 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 hook A, the upper end of its shank turned horizontally and having an
eye a, combined with the ring. D, having headed pin d engaging in said eye a³, as
and for the purposes set forth.
2. The fish-hook having the eye turned, as described, the ring D, having the
headed pin d, the line, and the float, substantially as described.
1000
:
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.
C TO LO U DART
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.
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