Improvements in Artificial Baits for Anglers' Use.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1900
Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Baits for Anglers' Use.
I, ROBERT BEALES CANTRELL, of No. 53, McDonough Street, in the Borough of
Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, and City and State of New York, United States
of America, Dentist Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of artificial baits, used by anglers, which
simulate winged insects, and which are commonly called "flies." Ordinarily
these baits or flies are tied upon the hook; or in other words, built upon the
hook in a permanent manner, the materials employed being, usually, feathers,
tinsel, silk, chenille, and the like.
The object of this invention is, in part, to provide a fly or bait that is tied or
formed independently of the hook in order that it may be readily put onto or
removed from the hook, and thus afford interchangeability, and also, in part, to
make up the fly in sections or separable parts, as for example, the wings forming
one section, the hackle another section, and the body another section.
In carrying out the invention, if the fly or bait is not to be constructed in
sections it is formed or "tied," of suitable materials, on a tube which is of the
proper size to slip over and fit quite snugly on the shank of the hook. This tube
may be of any suitable material, as thin metal, celluloid, or the like, and this tube
may be slightly flanged or enlarged at its ends the better to hold the materials
of which the bait or fly is composed, in place. When the fly is to be made in sec-
tions, the tube will also be in sections, or lengths, each part of the fly being tied
or formed on a separate piece of tubing. Preferably the tubing of one of the end
sections of the fly will be of such size as to slip into or telescope with the tubing
of the other sections so as to connect the parts together the better. By thus
making the fly in sections, flies of various kinds may be readily made up from a
few parts or sections.

page_text: of America, Dentist Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to that class of artificial baits, used by anglers, which
Ordinarily 5
simulate winged insects, and which are commonly called "flies."
these baits or flies are tied upon the hook; or in other words, built upon the
hook in a permanent manner, the materials employed being, usually, feathers,
tinsel, silk, chenille, and the like.
The object of this invention is, in part, to provide a fly or bait that is tied or
formed independently of the hook in order that it may be readily put onto or
removed from the hook, and thus afford interchangeability, and also, in part, to
make up the fly in sections or separable parts, as for example, the wings forming
one section, the hackle another section, and the body another section.
In carrying out the invention, if the fly or bait is not to be constructed in
sections it is formed or "tied," of suitable materials, on a tube which is of the
proper size to slip over and fit quite snugly on the shank of the hook. This tube
may be of any suitable material, as thin metal, celluloid, or the like, and said tube
may be slightly flanged or enlarged at its ends the better to hold the materials
of which the bait or fly is composed, in place. When the fly is to be made in sec-
tions, the tube will also be in sections, or lengths, each part of the fly being tied
or formed on a separate piece of tubing. Preferably the tubing of one of the end
sections of the fly will be of such size as to slip into or telescope with the tubing
of the other sections so as to connect the parts together the better. By thus
making the fly in sections, flies of various kinds may be readily made up from a
few parts or sections.
In the accompanying drawings several embodiments of the invention are
illustrated.
Figure 1 is a side view of a detachable fly constructed according to my inven-
tion. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal axial section of the same, showing the fly on the
hook. Fig. 3 shows two kinds of tubes adapted to form cores on which the flies
are wrapped or formed. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate modified constructions of the
fly, which will be hereinafter described. Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate a construction
of the fly in sections; Fig. 6 showing the fly built up on the hook, and Fig. 7
showing the three sections, A, B and C, of which it is made.
In carrying out my invention as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5, I take a slender
tube, a, of any suitable material, such as aluminium or other thin metal, cellu-
loid, and the like. On this tube I tie in the usual way the materials which are to
form the fly. The materials commonly employed are so various that it will not
be necessary to attempt any enumeration of them, and the manner of using them
in constructing the fly is well known to those skilled in the art. The fly when
completed will ordinarily appear somewhat as illustrated in Fig. 1, and it may
be slipped over the snell and onto the shank h¹ of the hook h, as indicated in
Fig. 2. The tube a should be of such a caliber that it will fit snugly on the
shank of the hook, which is usually wrapped in fixing to it the snells. The fly
should be removable, but should not be loose on the hook so as to rotate or
slip back on the line except when some little force is applied.
The tube a may have a slight flange or flare at its ends, as indicated at a¹ on
the lower tube in Fig. 3, for convenience in holding the materials in place thereon.
Fig. 4 shows how the tube a itself may form the ornamental body of the fly.
In this case the tube may be striped or ornamented with colors, gilt, &c., and
will not be covered with fibrous material.
Fig. 5, which is a sectional view, shows how a bulbous light body may be
slipped onto the tube a, and this body may be decorated in any manner desired
to imitate the body of an insect.
In carrying out my invention as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, the wings A
are tied on a slender tube a; the hackle B is tied on a short tube a², which will

page_text: slip over the tube a, and the body C, is tied on a tube a³, which will slip over
the tube a. The body C is first slipped over the snells, and onto the shank of
the hook; then the hackle B, and lastly the tube a, bearing the wings, this tube a
entering the tubes a³ and a³.
It will be noted that in any case the fly is tied on the tube and not on the hook,
that the ordinary hook with snell attached may be used, and that the tube wholly
incloses and hides the shank of the hook. While such a fly is readily removable,
it cannot by any possibility become detached from the hook in casting.
The fly may be slipped back on the line when removing the hook from the
mouth of the fish, and it is free, indeed, to be thus pushed back by the fish in
taking the hook. The tying of the fly on a tube facilitates the tying by machinery
as the tube may be readily slipped on the spindle in a lathe, so that it can be
rapidly rotated about its axis and the materials thus wound about it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:.
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1. An artificial bait in the nature of a fly, consisting of a light tube, having the
fly tied thereon, said tube being adapted to fit removably over the shank of the
hook, whereby the snell may be threaded through the tube and the latter made
to inclose the said shank, substantially as set forth.
2. An artificial bait in the nature of a fly, consisting of a light, slender tube
extending longitudinally of the body of the fly and covered with the materials
forming the fly, said materials being tied upon and concealing said tube, sub-
stantially as set forth.
3. The combination with a fish-hook and snell, of a fly on the hook, comprising
a slender, light tube which incloses removably the shank of the hook, and the
usual materials which form an artificial fly tied on and covering said tube, sub-
stantially as set forth.
4. An artificial bait in the nature of a fly; made in sections and the said sections
tied on sections of tubing adapted to be slipped onto the shank of a hook, substan-
tially as set forth.