A New or Improved Spinning-flight for Natural Dead-bait Fishing.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Spinning-flight for Natural Dead-bait Fishing..
I, PHILIP GEEN, of Davenham Lodge, Richmond, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:―
This invention relates to a new or improved spinning-flight for natural dead-bait
fishing the objects being to provide a curved metal bar which when introduced into
the body of the bait causes it to spin and does not present any external metal part
(like the ordinary metal screw blades), and at the same time furnish a convenient
swivel for the gut or gimp trace-loop, and securing means, without liability of
fraying, for the gut of the hook-flight together with retaining means for preventing
the bait drawing off the flight.
In order that the invention may be well understood there is annexed hereto a
sheet of drawings which will be refered to in the following more particular
description
Figure 1 is a view of this improved spinning-flight as applied to a dead-bait (two
triple hooks being shewn for purpose of this illustration).
Figure 2 is a view of the flight attachment when out of use.
Figure 3 is a side view of the device.
a is a curved bar or spine which has to be inserted from the mouth into the body
of the bait. At the head end of this bar a it is forked, as will be seen by Figure 3,
al being the prongs of said fork.
A. bar, secured across the fork opening is pierced centrally and carries the rivet
ended swivel wire and trace gut or gimp attaching loop. Two holes d. d made
through one of the prongs of the fork will serve to retain at d the knotted end of
the gut or gimp e to which are attached the hooks of the flight.
When the insertion of the bar a in the bait has been made, the upper and lower
lips of the month will be brought forward on to the prongs of the fork and will be
held thereby so covering the whole of the device except the attaching gut or gimp
of the "cast" or line and the hooks of the flight which will be turned aside out of
the mouth of the bait and the hooks be laid along and inserted in the body of the
bait, but at the same time the swivel pin will be free to turn with the spinning
motion of the bait when in use. In this way a most cleanly mounted, lasting and
alluring natural bait will be available.
The curved metal bar weights the bait, firmly fixes it in the desired position,
causes it to spin and contains a perfectly free-turning swivel, and the whole is
hidden within the spinning fish.
Having thus 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:
1. The spinning-flight for natural dead-bait fishing constructed and operating as
and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn by the drawings.
2. In a spinning-flight as set forth the bar a with the forked end a', the
swivel b. c., and flight attachment d. d'e., substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 30th day of June 1891.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.