A OR IMPROVED FISHING BAIT AND
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Morris Carswell, of Glasgow in the County of Lanark
North Britain for an invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED FISHING BAIT AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Morris Carswell at the Office.
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th April 1882.
MORRIS CARSWELL, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
"A NEW OR IMPROVED 'FISHING BAIT AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE
SAME,"
This Invention which relates to a new or improved fishing bait and to apparatus
for manufacturing the same has for its object to produce a bait in imitation both
in shape and colour of a natural worm and combined with what is known to
Anglers as "Stewart's Tackle."-The improved bait consists of a piece of
vulcanized India Rubber which is vulcanized in a mould formed to produce the
Rubber permanently set in the curved form which a worm assumes in moving
through water. The imitation worm may be coloured to the natural shade either
in or by the process of vulcanization, or it may be painted.-The imitation worm
so produced is then fastened in between the gut and hooks of the Stewart's
Tackle."
"
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Morris Carswell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th October 1882.
.
MORRIS CARSWELL, of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North Britain
"A NEW OR IMPROVED FISHING BAIT AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE
SAME
"
My said Invention which relates to a new or improved fishing bait and to
api aratus for manufacturing the same has for its object to produce a buit in

page_text: imitation both in shape and colour of a natural worm and combined with what is
known to anglers as "Stewart's" tackle.-The improved bait consists of a piece
of vulcanized india rubber which is vulcanized in a mould formed to produce the
rubber permanently set in the curved form which a worn assumes in moving
through water.
And in order that my said Invention-may be.properly.understood. I now proceed
more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner, in or under which the
same is, or may be, used, or practically carried into effect, reference being had to
the accompanying, drawings and to the letters and Figures marked thereon that
is to say:
Figure 1, of the accompanying drawings represents an imitation worm
constructed according to my said Invention and mounted upon the hooks of what
is known as "Stewart's" tackle, and Figure 2, is a plan of one-half of the mould
which I employ for producing the required shapes to be given to the strips of
india-rubber.
Strips of india-rubber are laid upon either one or other of the different
depressions a, formed in the mould A, which may be of lead iron or other suitable
material and the corresponding top half of the mould which is not shewn in the
drawings is laid upon the lower half.A; the mould thus, filled is placed in a hot
press and steamed for a suitable period and until the rubber has had time to settle
into shape. In lieu of a hot press any other convenient heating medium may bo
employed.
After the mould has cooled and the rubber become "set," the top half is taken
off and the rubber which will now have assumed its various curved forms is
removed from the recesses a.- -The twists or curves which are given to the strips
of india-rubber by the process of vulcanization within the mould are thus rendered
perinanent.
The moulded rubber after this process is preferably painted according to the
desired colours of natural worms or in lieu of thus painting them, the rubber
may be coloured to the natural shade in or by the process of vulcanization.
The imitation worin thus finished is fastened in between the gut and hooks of
the "Stewart" tackle shewn clearly in Figure 1.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the same is, or
may be, used, or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that
what I consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is:-
In the construction of a fishing bait or imitation worm strips of vulcanized
india-rubber shaped within a mould and mounted upon the hooks in combination
with "Stewart" or equivalent tackle substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof I, the said Morris Carswell have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fifth day of October in the. year of Our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.