Improvements in or appertaining to Spinning Baits.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar.,
1896
Improvements in or appertaining to Spinning Baits.
I, WILLIAM JOSEPH STARKEY BARBER-STARKEY, of 50 Ennismore Gardens,
Prince's Gate, in the County of London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide spinning baits with flexible elastic
spinners or screws, so formed that they will retain their proper shape and return to
their proper angles after being bent.
For this purpose I employ a sheet of rubber or other flexible elastic material of
a suitable length width and thickness, and this 1 shape to the form of a screw or
spinner by first placing it between two wires or strips of metal or other material
and then twisting these together to form a spiral when it will be found the parts of
the sheet projecting from either side of the wires will have been given the required
shape.
Dated this 26th day of June 1895
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54 Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
1, WILLIAM JOSEPH STARKEY BARBER-STARKEY, late of 50 Ennismore
Gardens, London, but now of Aldenham Park, Bridgnorth, in the County of
Salop, Gentleman, 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 :-
This invention has for its object, to provide spinning baits with flexible elastic
spinners or screws, so formed that they still retain their proper shape and return to
their proper angles after being bent.
For this purpose I employ a sheet of rubber or other flexible material of suitable
length, width, and thickness, and this I shape to the form of a screw or spinner by
first placing it between two wires or strips of metal or other material, and then
twisting these together to form the screw or spinner, when it will be found that the
parts of the sheet projecting from either side of the wires will have been given the
required shape.
In order to more particularly describe and explain this my invention I have
appended hereunto an illustrated sheet of drawings upon which are figures and
Dumbers of reference, similar numbers referring throughout the several views to the
same thing or part.
I cut from a sheet of rubber or other suitable flexible material, a double blade
picce 12, of any desirable shape, see Figs. 1 & 2. This blade piece may then be
secured to baits of various forms by means similar to those hereinafter explained.
For instance I may take a doubled piece of wire 13, and having placed the blade
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page_text: piece 12 between the wires as seen in Fig. 3, I may twist the wires as seen in Fig. 4,
by which means the blades are individually placed at a twisted or screw like angle
to each other, in which position they remain and thus form the desired screw or
spinning shape, while yet of a flexible character, which allows the fish to take it
into its mouth far more easily than with the blades of rigid metal.
The necessary appendages to complete the bait, such as hooks, swivels &c. may
be added and disposed as in the ordinary manner or as otherwise desired.
It will be readily seen that the methods adopted for attaching the blades to the
various forms of baits may be changed according to circumstances, as for instance,
when it is desired to attach them to a centre rod or upon a tubular (revolving)
piece, I may proceed thus;-Referring to Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9; I cut out the
blade 12, (as soen in Fig. 5) having the hole 14, of a diameter to fit tightly upon
the rod or tube 15. I then cut out a duple shaped piece of metal 16, having the
mid-connecting piece 17 and holes 18, 18. By now doubling this piece at the mid-
connecting part 17, as seen in Fig. 7, and placing between it-the blade 12, the whole
may then be passed tightly on to the rod or tube 15, as seen in Fig. 8, and then its
two blades twisted by means of the metal ends of the piece 16 into any desired
shape, as shown in Fig. 9. Of course the piece 16 may be made in two parts if
.desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The combination with fishing baits, of the flexible blades, substantially as
described and shown.
2. The combination with spinning fishing baits, of the flexible blades attached
and operating substantially as set forth and shown.
Dated this 27th day of February 1896.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12 Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.