Improved Means of Fixing Winches to Fishing Rods, and Handles to Landing Nets, or Bayonets to Guns.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improved Means of Fixing Winches to Fishing Rods, and
Handles to Landing Nets, or Bayonets to Guns.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS Brass Worker 36 Lower Grove Street Redditch County of
Worcester England do hereby declare the nature of my invention for FIXING
WINCHES TO FISHING RODS OR BAYONETS TO GUNS to be as follows, .viz:-
1
That my invention is a spring lock fastening by means of which winches can
be fastened or fixed to fishing rods or bayonets fixed to guns.
Fig. 1 shows rod plate C-C with lock or socket A, B, which plate is fixed on
butt of rod & respresents the receiveing plate-Fig. 2. shows winch plate D H
without spring Fig. 3 shows the spring G-Fig. 4 shows the under or lower view
of the plate of of winch with the spring G. fastened to it-Fig. 5 shows winch with
Fig. 4 viz. plate & spring fixed to it-Fig. 6 shows winch fixed to rod plate by
means of spring G. Fig. 3 passing through the aperture B of socket A on C-C of
Fig. 1.

page_text: Improved Means of Fixing Winches to Fishing Rods, and
Handles to Landing Nets, or Bayonets to Guns.
I WILLIAM PHILLIPS of 36 Lower Grove Street Redditch in the County of
Worcester 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 object of my invention is an improved means of fixing winches to fishing
rods or bayonets to guns the same fastening being obviously applicable to other
similar articles and use and by which such articles are very quickly attached most
securely together and just as quickly detached without any complication of parts
or much extra cost in manufacture.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
illustrated three applications of the invention which will serve to make the
invention quite clear to any practical men. In my Provisional Specification of the
Bame invention I also deposited a sheet of drawings but the number of the figures
and the letters do not agree thereon my object being now to refer entirely to
the drawings now accompaning the Complete Specification in practising the
invention.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a fishing rod with the winch attached
thereto by my new fastening.
Figure 2 is an illustration of the application of the same fastening to the bayonet
of a gun,
Figure 3 is an illustration of the invention applied to the handle and head of a
landing net.
Figure 4 is a view of the rod plate A separate from the handle B of the
fishing rod.
Figure 5 is an illustration of one kind of plate O which I affix to the winch to
carry the spring attachment.
Figure 6 is a separate view of the spring D.
It will be seen from the drawing Figure 1 that the socket plate A is affixed by
screws a¹ a² or other suitable means to the butt of the rod B and the spiggot
plate C is attached by pins c and c or other suitable means to the winch W. The
plate C carries a spring D which is attached thereto by suitable pins d¹ and d³ so
that when the spiggot C is forced into the socket A the nose d³ takes under the
end of the socket A and so locks it in position. This spring must be depressed
before the spiggot can be withdrawn. I have shown the socket A and spiggot C,
and spring D in section at Figure 7 to make it still clearer.
In the bayonet joint the spiggot is formed at the bottom of the bayonet and
the socket on the gun the nose d³ of the spring fastening the bayonet as before
explained for the winch.

page_text: In the landing net the mode is the same except that I form a depression 8¹ in
the socket S as per dotted lines to allow the thumb to enter and depress the nose
of d³ of the spring when disconnecting the head T from the handle X.
Having now particularly described and ascertaind the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1st. The improved means of attaching articles used in fishing together by means
of a spiggot and socket and nose spring attached thereto substantially as herein set
forth.
2nd. The improved means of attaching bayonets to guns by means of a spiggot
and socket and nose spring to lock the same substantially as herein set forth.