Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1899
SAMUEL BROOKS, 19, Chancery Lane, Ardwick, Manchester, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A perfect float for all kinds of angling with fishing rod line and float known
as float or bottom fishing.
The float is made of a pithy material of a very light character such as the
solid pithy portion of a feather or other lighter material whose buoyancy is
great, and displacement in the water small, and consequently is easily affected
when in use by the slightest touch at the hook end of the line.
This pithy material is specially prepared and compressed and afterwards
encased in a quill or other light water-tight casing equally light and buoyant.
The object of the casing being to preserve the whole. The casing is generally
wholly or semi-transparent (though it is not necessarily so) showing when desired
a perfectly white float always clean and easily desernable.
This white portion is however generally limited to one end, a band, or ring,
the remaining portion being enamelled to any required colour so as not to be
too conspicuous on the water. This casing and enamelling is also done to prevent
the float from becoming water logged, so that its buoyancy never alters when
in use however long or wet the day. The stiffness of the float is also increased
by the said casing and enamelling. It is thicker and stronger in the centre than
at the ends which are slightly taper to facilitate the adjustment of the float
to the line by means of the keep which slides easily on the quill portion of the
float, but readily tightens on the tapered portion of same.
The mode of attachment is by passing line through the float at the bottom
end in an oblique direction namely, in at the side & out at bottom, while the top
end is secured by an ordinary quill or rubber keep in the ordinary way.
What I claim as my invention is a perfect watertight solid float whose specific
gravity is not more than that of a hollow float, and I also claim as new the
preparation of, and casing in, of the central portion thus preventing all possibility
of saturation or water logging.
1000

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
A perfect float for all kinds of angling with fishing rod line and float known
as float or bottom fishing.
The float is made of a pithy material a of a very light character such as the
solid pithy portion of a feather or other lighter material whose buoyancy is
great, and displacement in the water small, and consequently is easily affected
when in use by the slightest touch at the hook end of the line.
This pithy material is specially prepared and compressed and afterwards
encased in a quill or other light water-tight casing bb equally light and buoyant.
The object of the casing being to preserve the whole. The casing is generally
wholly or semi-transparent (though it is not necessarily so) showing when desired
a perfectly white float always clean and easily desernable.
This white portion is however generally limited to one end, a band, or ring,
the remaining portion being enamelled to any required colour so as not to be
too conspicuous on the water. This casing and enamelling is also done to prevent
the float from becoming water logged, so that its buoyancy never alters when
in use however long or wet the day. The stiffness of the float is also increased
by the said casing and enamelling. It is thicker and stronger in the centre than
at the ends which are slightly taper to facilitate the adjustment of the float
to the line by means of the keep c which slides easily on the quill portion of the
float, but readily tightens on the tapered portion of same.
The mode of attachment is by passing line through the float at the bottom
end in an oblique direction namely, in at the side & out at bottom, while the top
end is secured by an ordinary quill or rubber keep c in the ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A perfect watertight solid float whose specific gravity is not more than that
of a hollow float, and I also claim as new, the preparation of, and casing in of the
central portion, thus preventing all possibility of saturation or water logging.
Dated this 14th day of February 1899.