AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Augustus Huddart, of Brynkir, in
the County of Carnarvon, Esquire, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES."
Sealed the 26th May 1853, and dated the 26th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Augustus
Huddart at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 26th November 1852.
I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HUDDART, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL
FLIES" to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture for the use of fly
fishers artificial wings closely resembling the natural wings of flies.
For this purpose I employ a material consisting wholly or in part
of gutta percha or india rubber, or other suitable substance which
will admit of being moulded and will resist the action of water,
and I mould this substance in suitably formed dies or moulds.

page_text: The dies I prefer to be of metal, as they will impart to the manu-
facture a surface gloss which is highly desirable. In the dics I
engrave lines resembling the natural markings in the wings of the
fly which is to be imitated; that is, I indicate the veins, the muscles,
and the arteries; and in such dies I mould the wings that are to go
to form the artificial fly. I place between the dies a thin sheet of
the composition and submit it to pressure, so as to get the wings as
thin and transparent as possible; but where the cut lines occur
there will be an accumulation of the composition; and by this means
a sufficient degree of rigidity is given to the wings, while at the
same time a close imitation of nature is obtained. In some cases I
may find it sufficient to imitate merely the shape and color of the
wings without claborating the details as above described.
In carrying out my Invention on a large scale, I may find it
convenient to multiply my dies by means of pressure and thereby
obtain many repeats upon one sheet of metal. In that case I pro-
pose to coat the dies with a solution of india rubber, gutta percha,
or other analogous material, and when this coating has set; it may
be peeled off and cut up by stamps, or in any convenient way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said George Augustus Huddart in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE AUGUSTUS IIUDDART, of Brynkir, in the County of Carnar-
von, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Iler reign, did, for Ierself, Пer heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Augustus
Huddart, Her special licence, that I, the said George Augustus
Iluddart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others

page_text: as I, the said George Augustus Huddart, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the terin
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IN-
PROVED MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Augustus Huddart, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be perforined, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Augustus Huddart, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention an in what manner
the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
The object of this Invention is to manufacture for the use of fly
fishers artificial flies more closely resembling the natural insect
than those at present in the market. To this end I employ for
manufacture of the wings of artificial flies a material consisting
wholly of gutta percha or india rubber, or of a compound of these
substances, or of any other suitable substance which will admit of
being moulded when softened by heat and will resist the action of
water, and 1 mould such material in suitably formed dies or
moulds; or, instead of softening such material by heat, I dissolve it
in any suitable solvent and use it as hereafter mentioned. The dies
I prefer to be of metal, as they will impart to the manufacture a
surface gloss which is highly desirable. In the moulds or dies I
engrave lines resembling the natural inarkings in the wings of the
fly which is to be imitated; that is, I indicate the veins, the muscles,
and the arteries; and in such dies I mould the wings that are to
go to form the artificial fly, connecting then together by an arti-
ficial body composed of the same material, or forming them separate

page_text: from each other, as may be thought most desirable. When I mould
the wings separately I form on the inner edge thereof a fillet
through which the attachment to the shank of the fish hook is
made, and for this purpose I provide a suitable recess in the dies
or moulds to allow of the simultaneous formation of the fillet and
the wings.
I place between the moulds or dies a thin, sheet of the composi
tion, and submit it to pressure, so as to get the wings as thin and
transparent.as possible; but where the cut lines occur there will be.
an accumulation of the composition,-and-by-this means a sufficient
degree of rigidity is given to the wings, while, at the same time a
close imitation of nature is obtained.
or I
In carrying out my Invention on a large scale; I may find it con-
venient to multiply the metallic dies or moulds by means of pres-
sure, and thereby obtain many repeats upon one plate of metal;
may obtain repeats of the moulds in glass (in the same manner
that glass seals are now produced) and set these moulds together so
as to form one plate or a continuous surface. In either case, I pro-
pose to coat the moulds with a solution of bleached india rubber,
gutta percha, or other analogous material, and when this coating
has set, to apply thereto, if necessary, an additional,coat, repeating
the operation until the requisite thickness of semi-transparent matc-.
-rial-is.obtained. When this is effected, and the material has become
hard, it is to be stripped off the moulds; and the markings-in-the-
moulds of the veins, muscles, and arteries in the fly's wings will be
found to be indicated thereon. The sheet of artificial wings thus
produced, whether the wings be connected together in pairs, by a:
body composed of the same material, or formed so as to require an
after-attachment, may be cut up by stamps or dics in any con-
venient manner, and afterwards fitted to the shank of the barb or
hook of the fishing tackle in the usual way of attaching. artificial
flies.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the man-.
ner of carrying the same into use, I wish it to be understood, that
under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim as of my Inven

page_text: tion, of an improved manufacture of artificial flies obtaining a close
resemblance to the natural insect, by forming the wings in moulds
or dies, which are provided with lines or markings corresponding
to or in imitation of the markings of the wings of the natural
insect.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Augustus Huddart, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Witness,
JOHN OWEN,
Butler, Brynkir.
GEO. A. HUDDART. (L.S.)