A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FISHING REELS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Kenton, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF FISHING REELS."
Sealed the 3rd February 1857, and dated the 21st August 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Kenton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st August 1856.
I, ROBERT KENTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FISHING REELS," to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists in making fishing reels of papier mâché instead
of metal, as is usual. In carrying my Invention into effect, I make the reel
itself of papier mâché, and pass a metal axis through the said reel, and con-
nect the winch by which the said reel is turned to the said axis. The case in
which the reel works is made of a tubular piece of papier mâché closed by
discs, through the centre of which discs the axis of the reel passes. Portions

page_text: of the tubular case are cut away at suitable intervals, in order to give access to
the reel. By papier mâche, I wish it to be understood that I mean a com-
position consisting mainly of vegetable fibre.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Kenton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
KENTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Robert Kenton, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Kenton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Kenton, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of. Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE
OF FISHING REELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Robert Kenton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Kenton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in making fishing reels of papier mâché instead of
metal, as is usual.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents, in elevation, and Figures
2 and 3, in section, a fishing reel constructed according to my Invention. The
section, Figure 2, is taken in the plane in which the axis of the reel is situated,
and the section, Figure 3, is taken in a plane at right angles to the axis of the
reel. a is the case of the reel; b, the sides; and c, the barrel of the reel..
The said parts a, b, and c being made of papier mâché. The axis d of the
barrel c is made of metal, as well as the crank or winch e. The plate f, by
which the reel is affixed to the fishing rod, is made of metal, and is attached
to the case a by screws g, g. The case a, in which the reel works, is made of
a tubular piece of papier mâché closed by discs, through the centre of which
discs the axis of the reel passes. Portions of the tubular piece are cut away
at suitable intervals, as shown at h, h, in order to give access to the reel.
Figure 4 represents, in elevation, and Figure 5, in transverse section,
another fishing reel constructed according to my Invention. The said fishing
reel, Figures 4 and 5, differs from that herein-before described and represented
in Figures 1, 2, and 3, in having a toothed wheel i on its axis, in which the
pall or click k engages; the said pall or click being pressed into the position
represented by the spring 1. The said toothed wheel i, and pall or click k,
serve to check tho motion of the reel, and prevent the line running out after
the fish has come to rest. The case m differs only from the case a, Figures 1, 2,
and 3, in having the supplementary or additional chamber m¹, in which the
parts i, k, l, work.
By papier mâché, I wish it to be understood, that I mean a composition
composed mainly of vegetable fibre, or such other compositions or mixtures as
are or may be used as substitutes for papier mâché.
As the method of manufacturing papier mâché is well known and commonly
practised, I do not think it necessary here to describe the same.
I do not limit myself to any particular shape of a fishing reel, as my Inven-
tion consists in the use of papier mâché for manufacturing fishing reels,
whether the said reels be of the forms represented in the accompanying
Drawing, or of any other form. Fishing reels made according to my Invention
are much lighter than fishing reels made of metal.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same may
be varied. without departing from the nature of my said Inventlon; but I
claim as my Invention, the new or improved manufacture of fishing reels,

page_text: herein-before described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is
to say, the manufacture of fishing reels of papier mâché, or such other sub-
stances or compositions as are or may be used as substitutes for papier mâché.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Kenton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
ROBERT KENTON. (L.S.)