Improvements in Artificial Flies for Angling.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Flies for Angling.
I, JOHN WORTHY CHAPLIN of Kibworth Hall, Leicester, Colonel Retired
List, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the manufacture of artificial "flies" used as bait in
salmon and trout fishing, and it has for its principal object to increase the
attractiveness of the fly and so render it more "killing" by providing it with a
transparent colored body presenting a bright and lustrous appearance of a nature
to captivate the fish.
For this purpose I employ either colored glass or celluloid (according to the
kind of fishing for which the fly is intended to be used) in the form of an ovoid or
bulbous bead slipped on to the shank of the look.
The bead or body, of whichever material it may be made, may be slipped into
position on the shank of a single or double hook after the usual gut loop has been
attached thereto and after the feathers forming the tail of the fly have been also
attached in the usual way the bead or body being secured in position at the same
time that the feathers forming the wings of the fly are attached.
Or the bead or body can be attached to a single or double hook with a short
shank to which the tail of the fly has been tied and a loop; the glass bead to be
threaded on a piece of gut which will be joined on to the loop and the wings and
head of the fly afterwards tied on the gut or glass bead.
Dated this 5th day of November 1891.
J. W. UNAI LIN,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Flies for Angling.
I, JOHN WORTHY CHAPLIN of Kibworth Hall, Leicester, Colonel Retired List,
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 invention relates to the manufacture of
salmon and trout fishing, and it has for its
attractiveness of the fly and so render it more
transparent colored body presenting a bright and
to captivate the fish.
artificial "flies" used as bait in
principal object to increase the
killing," by providing it with a
lustrous appearance of a nature
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For this purpose I employ either white or colored glass or celluloid (according to
the kind of fishing for which the fly is. intended to be used) in the form of an
ovoid or bulbous bead slipped on to the shank of the hook.
The bead or body, of whichever material it may be made, may be slipped into
position on the shank of a single or double hook after the usual gut loop has
been attached thereto and after the feathers forming the tail of the fly have been
also attached in the usual way, the bead or body being secured in position at the
same time that the feathers forming the wings of the fly are attached.
Or the bead or body can be attached to a single or double hook with a short
shank to which the tail of the fly has been tied and a loop; the glass bead to be
threaded on a piece of gut which will be joined on to the loop and the wings and
head of the fly afterwards tied on the gut or glass bead.

page_text: Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, in which 1 have illustrated examples of flies made as above described,
but I would have it understood that my invention is not limited to the particular
mode of uniting the component parts of the fly, but consists essentially in the
application of glass or celluloid of appropriate color in the form substantially of
an ovoid or bulbous bead which, owing to the nature of the material of which it is
made, presents a glittering or lustrous appearance.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a view of an artificial fly and Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through
the body of the same, manufactured in the manner first described.
Figure 3 is a view of a fly made according to the second mode of uniting the
parts.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
a is the body of the fly and whether made of glass or celluloid it would be of
substantially the form represented and hollow for the sake of lightness, with a
small orifice in each end for the passage of the shank of the hook 6 which may be
of the usual single or double form generally employed, or for the passage of the
gut to which the hook is attached.
The tail feathers are first fastened to the shank of the hook and the bead a is
then slipped on and secured in position by binding the wing feathers to the shank,
as shewn in Figures 1 and 2; or if the hook have a short shank a gut loop c is
attached to it on which the bead is threaded and to which, or to the bead, the
wing feathers are secured, as shewn in Figure 3.
The bead a whether of glass or celluloid produced by blowing or moulding in
the ordinary way of making such articles, care being taken that its outer surface
be smooth and lustrous.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
An artificial fly having its body portion made of a bulbous bead of glass or
celluloid presenting a lustrous appearance, substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of August 1892
J. W. CHAPLIN,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.