Improvements in Artificial Baits for Fishing Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Baits for Fishing Purposes.
I, EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET, of St. Leonard's Cottage, Beoley,
Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Manager of Works do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in artificial baits for fishing purposes of
the kind known as spinning bait, and consists in constructing the said bait in such
a manner that although it has a metal exterior yet it is perfectly flexible and gives
to the strike of the fish..
For this purpose the interior of the bait or artificial fish is constructed of india
rubber or of other suitable flexible material or combination of materials, and upon
the said flexible interior is rivetted or fixed metal scales of such a form and in such
a manner that although the said metal scales protect the flexible interior from
injury yet they do not cause the said artificial fish to become rigid, each scale being
rivetted in such a manner that when the said bait is bent in any direction the scales
ply or give with the flexible interior.
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EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Baits for Fishing Purposes.
I EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of Beoley Redditch in the County of
Worcester Manager of Needle & Fish Hook Factory 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 artificial baits for fishing purposes of
the kind known as "spinning bait," and consists in constructing the said bait in
such a manner, that although it has a metal exterior, yet it is perfectly flexible,
and gives to the strike of the fish.
.
For this purpose, the interior of the bait or artificial fish is constructed of india-
rubber, or of other suitable flexible material, or combination of materials, and upon
the said flexible interior, is rivetted or fixed,-metal scales, of such a form, and in
such a manner, that although the said metal scales protect the flexible interior from
injury, yet they do not cause the said artificial fish to become rigid, each scale
being rivetted in such a manner, that when the said bait is bent in any direction,
the scales ply or give with the flexible interior.
On the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are represented a top and side
view of an artificial fish bait constructed according to my invention, and Figure 3
shows a modification of my invention.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figure 1 A shews the flexible inside B¹ B²
B3 B4 B B B7 B8 B° B10 B1 B2 B3 B4 Bis B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 B21 B22 the metal
scales.
Figure 2 shews the scales B1 B2 B3 B+ B B B7 B8 B° B¹º B" B12 B13 and the
rivets C1 C2 C3 C4 C³ C³ C7 C³ C° C¹º C C12 C13 C1 which hold them in their

page_text: 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: --
1st. The improvements in artificial baits for fishing purposes of the kind known
as "spinning bait" hereinbefore described, and illustrated by Figures 1 and 2 of
the accompanying drawings, that is to say, an artificial fish bait constructed with a
flexible inside which I prefer to construct of hardened steel and upon which I rivet
metal scales so that the whole is flexible and gives to the strike of the fish.
2nd. The modified form of my improvements in artificial baits for fishing
purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figure 3 of the accompanying
drawings which artificial fish bait is formed of hardened and tempered steel wire
coiled to the shape of the fish for the purpose of causing it to be flexible and
making it give to the strike of the fish.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET.