Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 20th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 21st Oct., 1887
1 ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET trading as William Bartleet and Sons of Abbey Mills
Redditch in the County of Worcester Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows :-
My invention has reference principally to the apparatus employed for scouring fish
hooks of the kinds called ringed or bowed or eyed fish hooks and has for its object to
prevent or diminish the entangling of the said hooks with one another in the scouring
process by the engaging of the point or barb of one hook in the ring bow or eye of
another and thereby preventing the freedom of motion in the said hooks and retarding
and lengthening the scouring process. My invention is however also applicable to
the apparatus employed for scouring "flatted" fish hooks.
The apparatus employed for scouring fish hooks consists of a drum or barrel having
rotary motion on a horizontal axis or on an axis inclined at about an angle of forty
five degrees to a horizontal plane.
The scourer rotating on a horizontal axis consists of a barrel either cylindrical or
octagonal and provided with a door at which the fish hooks are introduced and
removed. The said barrel is filled about two thirds full of the fish hooks to be
scoured mixed with small fragments of the small coke called breezes. My improve-
ments in the scourer rotating on a horizontal axis consist in fixing in the interior of
the barrel one. two or more metallic tubes rods or bars extending from one end of the
For the sake of
barrel to the other and fixed parallel to the axis of the barrel.
lightness I prefer to use tubes of iron and I find that tubes of a diameter of from two
to three inches answer well in practice. I do not however limit myself to any
particular size or material in making the said tubes rods or bars..
The scourer rotating on an inclined axis is open at top and the rods tubes or bars
are fixed to the bottom of the scourer. In this case I prefer to make the rods tubes
or bars of a slightly conical figure the base of the cone being fixed to the bottom of the
Scourer. The conical rods tubes or bars in this scourer as well as in that turning on
a horizontal axis may either be of the same or of different diameters.
By the use of the rods tubes or bars described the tendency of the fish hooks to
get entangled with one another is largely diminished and the scouring process greatly
expedited.
Although my improvements are especially applicable to the dry scouring of fish
books yet they may also be employed in the wet scouring of fish hooks.
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W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET trading as William Bartleet and Sons of Abbey Mills
Redditch in the County of Worcester Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
my 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 has reference principally to the apparatus employed for scouring fish
hooks of the kinds called ringed or bowed or eyed fish hooks and has for its object to
prevent or diminish the entangling of the said hooks with one another in the scouring
process by the engaging of the point or barb of one hook in the ring, bow or eye of
another and thereby preventing the freedom of motion in the said hooks and retarding
and lengthening the scouring process. My invention is however also applicable to the
apparatus employed for scouring "flatted" fish hooks.
The apparatus employed for scouring fish hooks consists of a drum or barrel having
rotary motion on a horizontal axis or on an axis inclined at about an angle of forty
five degrees to a horizontal plane. The scourer rotating on a horizontal axis consists
of a barrel either cylindrical or octagonal and provided with a door at which the fish
hooks are introduced and removed. The said barrel is filled about two thirds full of
the fish hooks to be scoured mixed with small fragments of the small coke called
breezes or other suitable scouring material. My improvements in the scourer rotating
on a horizontal axis consist in fixing in the interior of the barrel, one two or more
metallic tubes, rods or bars extending from one end of the barrel to the other and
fixed parallel to the axis of the barrel. For the sake of lightness I prefer to use tubes
of iron and I find that tubes of a diameter of from two to three inches answer well in
practice. I do not however limit myself to any particular size or material in making
the said tubes rods or bars.
The scourer rotating on an inclined axis is open at top and the rods tubes or bars
are fixed to the bottom of the scourer. In this case I prefer to make the rods, tubes
or bars of a slightly conical figure the base of the cone being fixed to the bottom of
the scourer.
The conical rods, tubes or bars in this scourer as well as in that turning on a
horizontal axis may either be of the same or of different diameters.
By the use of the rods, tubes or bars described the tendency of the fish hooks to
get entangled with one another is largely diminished and the scouring process greatly
expedited.
Although my improvements are especially applicable to the dry scouring of fish
hooks yet they may also be employed in the wet scouring of fish hooks.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in cross section; Figure 2 in
longitudinal section and Figure 3 in end elevation apparatus for scouring fish hooks
constructed according to my invention, the said apparatus having rotary motion on a
horizontal axis.
a is the scourer consisting of an octagonal drum or barrel mounted on a horizontal
axis or on pivots and driven in the ordinary way. Or the drum or barrel instead of

page_text: being octagonal as represented may be cylindrical. The fish hooks are introduced
into and removed from the scourer a at the hinged door 6 and the breezes or small
coke or other suitable scouring materials are also introduced into the scourer at the
said door b.
In the interior of the barrel or scourer a two metallic tubes c, c either of iron or
steel are fixed, the said tubes extending from one end of the barrel to the opposite end
as seen in the longitudinal section Figure 2.
The said metallic tubes c, c are fixed parallel to the axis of the barrel and preferably
somewhat out of the middle line of the barrel as seen in Figure 1. The said metallic
tubes c, c may be fixed in various ways in the scourer a. The arrangement represented
in the drawing for fixing the tubes consisting of the strong screws d, d passed from
the ends of the scourer taking into wooden plugs e, e in the ends of the tubes c c
I have found to answer well in practice.
By the use of the metallic tubes c, c arranged in the scourer in the manner
represented the ringed or bowed fish hooks have perfect freedom of motion in the
Scourer and the entangling of the hooks with one another during the scouring process
by the point or barb of one hook engaging with the ring bow or eye of another hook
which occurs when the ordinary scouring apparatus is used is wholly or mainly
prevented and the scouring process is in consequence expedited. The scouring of
Hatted fish hooks is also expedited by the use of any invention.
Although I have represented a scourer having rotary motion on a horizontal axis
as provided with two metallic tubes yet a single metallic tube or more than two
metallic tubes may be arranged in the scourer and in place of a metallic tube or tubes
a rod or rods or bar or bars of iron steel or other metal or of some strong non-metallic
material may be used. When one tube rod or bar is used it has the position of either
of the tubes represented and when more than two tubes, rods or bars are used I prefer
to arrange them symmetrically about the axis of the barrel and equi distant from
each other.
Figure 4 represents in section and Figure 5 in plan a scourer rotating on an
inclined axis provided with two slightly conical wooden rods or bars f, arranged
parallel to one another and to the sides of the scourer a. This scourer is open at top
and through the open top the fish hooks and scouring material are introduced and the
conical wooden rods or bars f, fare fixed by their bases to the bottom of the scourer a
by screws, bolts or otherwise. The action of the rods or bars f, fin the inclined
Scourer Figures 4 and 5 is the same as the tubes rods or bars in the horizontal
scourer first described. The conical wooden rods or bars ff in the inclined scourer
may be replaced by conical metallic rods or bars or by conical metallic tubes or by
cylindrical rods, bars or tubes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in apparatus for scouring fish hooks "
Combining with the drums or barrels of the scouring apparatus the said drums or
barrels having rotary motion on a horizontal axis or on an inclined axis, one two or
more metallic or non metallic tubes rods or bars arranged in the drums or barrels
substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Seventeenth day of Sentember 1887