Improvements in Boxes for Holding Artificial Baits.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1891-Accepted 9th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Holding Artificial Baits.
I, MORRIS CARSWELL Fishing Tackle Manufacturer 90 Mitchell Street
Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention has for its object to improve boxes for holding artificial fishing
baits, principally the phantom bait and any other bait constructed with a hook at
the tail end and a ring or loop at the mouth.
As yet there is no box made to meet the full requirements of the case and baits
are liable to be crushed or spoiled and considerable time is often wasted in taking
the bait out of a box as the hooks often catch on those of another bait in the same
box. My invention provides against all this for in the first place the bait is fixed
and cant move about, and as it would be fixed only at the extreme ends it would
not be easily crushed or bruised, and then the bait could be casily and quickly put
into the box and taken out.
In carrying out my invention get a small box, of metal say, fitted at one or
both ends with a spring with a hook or a catch at the end. The tail hook of the
bait would be caught by one hook or catch and the ring or loop at the mouth by
the other, and the springs drawing tight the bait would be held extended, caught
only at the extreme ends." Where only one spring is used a hook or catch would be
fitted to the opposite end of the box. The box might be so constructed as to have
sufficient spring in itself.
Dated this 17th day of April 1891.
MORRIS CARSWELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Holding Artificial Baits.
I MORRIS CARSWELL Fishing Tackle Manufacturer 90 Mitchell Street
Glasgow 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 improvements in boxes for holding artificial baits
particularly that one known as the Phantom Minnow or any other such bait of
itself providing a means of attachment at both ends. Hitherto such boxes have
not guarded the baits sufficiently from injury through crushing, rattling about
inside the box, and, where more than one bait is put in the same box, from the
hooks of the different baits catching in and injuring one another.
According to my invention I provide a neat metal box fitted with springs at both
ends, these springs ending in a hook, the hook of one of which springs is intended
to catch onto the tail hook of the bait and the hook of the spring at the opposite
enl of the box to catch the ring at the mouth of the bait. By this means a bait
could be quickly and easily put into the box or taken out when required and while
in the box it would be held extended, free from contact with anything, and
prevented from swinging or rolling about, and thus, as in the case of phantoms
minnows, the bait could not possibly loose its shape, as is otherwise frequently the
case, nor could the painting of the bait be rubbed off or injured.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. I represents a box fitted with spring hooks as described.
Fig. I show such a box holding a bait as described.

page_text: Where the box is only intended to hold one size of bait and less elasticity is
required the box could be fitted with one spring hook only and a simple hook at
the other end, or the box could be constructed with sufficient elasticity in itself in
which case hooks would only be needed. Boxes could be made to hold several
baits a pair of spring hooks or their equivalent being provided for each bait the
box would be intended to hold.
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:
The application of spring books as described or their equivalent to a box for
the purpose of forming an easy attachment and protecting an artificial bait as
described from injury.
Deted this 2nd day of Donation 1001
MORRIS CARSWELL.