Improved Method of Manufacturing Phantom Minnows or like Artificial Baits.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Manufacturing Phantom Minnows or like
Artificial Baits.
I, MORRIS CARSWELL, Merchant 90 Mitchell Street Glasgow, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved method of manufacturing phantom
minnows or like artificial baits. The phantom is a minnow made with a metal
head and a flexible body of silk or other suitable substance shaped and painted to
resemble a fish.
In carrying out my invention I coat with paint, size, or other suitable
preparation, a piece of silk or stuff to be used, and when dry I paint or lithograph
on this, in the desired colours, and in a shape to resemble a fish when sewn up.
The printed body is then cut out, sewn up, and attached to the metal head and
the tying and sewing painted over along with the head. After drying the entire
bait can now be varnished over when the printed colours having a good
foundation on the coated silk will shew up as clearly as a painted phantom
minnow.
By my invention I can produce phantom minnows or like artificial baits much
cheaper than they are at present produced.
Dated this Seventeenth day of December 1895.
Improved Method of Manufacturing Phantom Minnows or like
Artificial Baits.
I, MORRIS CARSWELL, Merchant, 90 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, 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 in
writing that is to say :-
This invention relates to an improved method of manufacturing phantom
minnows or like artificial baits. The phantom is a minnow made with a metal
head and a flexible body of silk or other suitable substance shaped and painted to
resemble a fish.
In carrying out my invention I cont with paint, size, or other suitable
preparation, preferably with a brush, a piece of silk or the stuff to be used, and
when dry print or lithograph on this, in the desired colours, and in a shape to
resemble a fish when sewn up. Any desired number of the fish formations could
thus be made placed in parallel lines on the web of material. The painted bodies
are then individually cut out from the web sewn up and attached to the metal
heads, and the tying and sewing painted over along with the head. After drying,
the entire bait can now be varnished over when the printed colours having a good
foundation on the coated silk will show up as clearly as a painted phantom
minnow.

page_text: By my invention I can produce phantom minnows or like artificial baits much
cheaper than they are at present produced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The improved method of manufacturing phantom minnows or like
artificial baits, consisting in first coating the silk or material used with a suitable
size or paint, and then when dry printing or lithographing on this the desired
colours to resemble fish when sewn up, substantially as set forth.
Second. Phantom minnows or like artificial baits manufactured substantially as
herein set forth.
Dated the 1st day of September 1896.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.