Improvements in Attaching Winches or Reels to Fishing Rods.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Winches or Reels to Fishing Rods.
We HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED of Washford Mills Redditch in the
County of Worcester Needle and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers and WILLIAM
GUISE of No. 26 Hewell Road Redditch aforesaid Needle and Fishing Tackle
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the arrangement or combination of parts herein-
after described whereby the attaching of the winch or reel to the fishing rod and
its detachment therefrom are effected without the use of sliding ferrules the recl
when attached being held very firmly in its place further the arrangement of
parts permits winches or reels having plates of different lengths and widths being
attached to the fishing rod and the fastening parts are applied to the rod without
materially weakening it.
The extreme butt or handle end of the fishing rod is furnished with a long fixed
ferrule hereinafter called the rear ferrule and in advance of the said rear
ferrule is a shorter front ferrule the two ferrules being fixed at a less distance
apart than the length of the winch or reel plate. The wood of the rod is cut
away to permit of the ends of the reel plate passing under the said fixed
ferrules and for receiving the fastening mechanism. In the cut away part of
the rod is a coiled spring fixed at its front end; its rear end carries a vertical
abutment or short arm which is preferably slightly hooked for one end of the
reel plate to engage with. The said spring abutment or arm is capable of a
longitudinal sliding motion to and from the front ferrule the said spring abut-
ment working in and being guided by a longitudinal slot in a plate fixed over
the cut away part of the fishing rod. The spring abutment or arm when in its
normal position is situated just within the inner end of the fixed rear ferrule.
The winch or reel is attached to the fishing rod in the following manner.
end of the reel plate is passed under the inner end of the fixed rear ferrule and
made to engage with the hook shaped spring abutment or short arm described. By
now pushing the reel backwards its plate acting against the spring abutment forces
it back and elongates the coiled spring. When the reel plate has been pushed
back so far that the end opposite that engaged with the spring abutment can be
engaged with the fixed. front ferrule the motion of the reel is reversed so as to
cause the last named end of the reel plate to engage under the end of the said front
ferrule. The ends of the reel plate are thus engaged with their respective ferrules
and the winch or reel attached to the fishing rod the pressure of the spring abut-
ment on one end of the reel plate pressing its other end to the seat at the front
ferrule and securely holding the reel in its place.
One
To disconnect the reel it is first pressed back so as to withdraw its plate from the
front ferrule thereby compressing the spring when the opposite end of the reel
plate can be withdrawn from the spring abutment and rear ferrule and the reel
disconnected from the fishing rod.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Winches or Reels to Fishing Rods.
We, HENRY MILWARD AND SONS LIMITED, of Washford Mills, Redditch, in
the County of Worcester, Needle and Fishing Tackle Manufacturers, and
WILLIAM GUISE, of No. 26 Hewell Road, Redditch, aforesaid, Needle and
Fishing Tackle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement. :-
The said invention consists of the arrangement or combination of parts herein-
after described, whereby the attaching of the winch or reel to the fishing rod
and its detachment therefrom, are effected without the use of sliding, ferrules, the
reel when attached being held very firmly in its place; further, the arrangement of
parts permits winches or reels having plates of different lengths and widths being
attached to the fishing rod and the fastening parts are applied to the rod without
materially weakening it.
a
The extreme butt or handle end of the fishing rod is furnished with a long fixed
ferrule hereinafter called the rear ferrule and in advance of the said rear ferrule. is.
a shorter front ferrule, the two ferrules being fixed at a less distance apart than
the length of the winch or reel plate. The wood of the rod is cut away for
receiving the fastening mechanism. In the cut away part of the rod is coiled
spring fixed at its front end; its rear end carries a vertical abutment or short arm
which is preferably slightly booked for one end of the reel plate to engage with.
The said spring abutment or arm is capable of a longitudinal sliding motion to
and from the front ferrule, the said spring abutment or arm working in and being
guided by a longitudinal slot in a plate or case carrying the ferrules fixed over the
cut away part. The spring abutment or arm when in its normal position is
situated just within the inner end of the fixed rear ferrule.
One
The winch or reel is attached to the fishing rod in the following manner.
end of the reel plate is passed under the inner end of the fixed rear ferrule and
made to engage with the hook shaped spring abutment or short arm described.
By now pushing the reel backwards its plate acting against the spring abutment
forces it back and elongates the coiled spring. When the reel plate has been
pushed back so far that the end opposite that engaged with the spring abutment
can be engaged with the fixed front ferrule the motion of the reel is reversed so as
to cause the last named end of the reel plate to engage under the end of the said
front ferrule. The ends of the reel plate are thus engaged with their respective
ferrules and the winch or reel attached to the fishing rod, the pressure of the
spring abutment on one end of the reel plate pressing its other end to the seat at
the front ferrule and securely holding the reel in its place.
To disconnect the reel it is first pressed back so as to withdraw its plate from
the front ferrule, thereby elongating the spring, when the opposite end of the reel.
plate can be withdrawn from the spring abutment and rear ferrule and the reel
disconnected from the fishing rod.
Figures and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent elevations, taken at
right angles to one another, partly in section, of a winch or reel attached to the
fishing rod according to this invention;
Figure 3 represents a cross section of the same taken on the line a, a Figure 1,
and
Figure 4 represents a cross section of the same taken on the line bb Figure 2;
Figure 5 represents an elevation of the underside of the combined ferrules, their
connecting case or plate and parts carried by them, detached from the fishing rod
and
Figure 6 represents the same view as Figure 1 with the winch or reel in the act
of being attached to the fishing rod.

page_text: The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
c is the butt or handle end of the fishing rod d is the rear long ferrule and e iš
the shorter front ferrule, the said two ferrules being made preferably by a stamping
process in one piece with the connecting case or trough plate and the ears 9, 9, 9
by which ears the combined ferrules and case or plate are secured to the fishing
rod r. The wood of the fishing rod is cut away in the manner represented for
receiving the case or plate and the fastening mechanism. The said ferrules de
are situated at a less distance apart than the length of the fixed plate on the
winch or reel ; is a coiled spring situated in the trough case or plate and
fixed at one end to the front ferrule e. The rear end of the spring is fixed to a
slightly hooked plate or abutment or short arm k which works in the rear ferrule d.
The said spring abutment or arm is capable of a longitudinal sliding motion to
and from the front ferrule e, the said abutment being guided in its motion by
working in the longitudinal slot 7 in the bottom of the rear ferrule.
In attaching the winch or reel to the fishing rod c, the end 2 of the reel plate
is passed under the inner end of the fixed rear ferrule d and made to engage with
the hook shaped spring abutment or short arm k. The reel being pushed back-
wards, its plate forces back in the ferrule d the spring abutment & and elongates
the coiled spring i as represented in Figure 6. The reel plate f³, having been
pushed back so far that the end f³, opposite that engaged with the spring abutment,
can be passed under or into the front ferrule e; the motion of the reel plate is
reversed so as to cause the said end to engage with the said front ferrule e. By
the pressure of the spring abutment the end of the reel plate is forced into the
front ferrule and the winch or reel securely attached to the fishing rod as
represented in Figures 1 and 2, where it will be seen that the spring abutment k
bearing on the end 2 of the reel plate holds the other end of the said plate
securely to its seat at the front ferrule e.
When it is required to disconnect the reel from the fishing rod the said reel is
pressed back in the direction of the rear ferrule so as to elongate the spring of
the spring abutment in the said rear ferrule and withdraw the end of the recl
plate from the front ferrule e as represented in Figure 6. The opposite end of
the reel plate can now be withdrawn from the rear ferrule d and the said end 2
from the spring abutment and the reel detached from the fishing rod.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention of "Improvements in attaching winches or reels to
fishing rods "
:-
The combination of the front and rear ferrules e, d and connecting case or plate f
preferably made in one piece, with the spring sliding abutment or arm k working in
the rear ferrule for attaching the winch or reel to the butt or handle end of the
fishing rod, the several parts being arranged and acting substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the Tenth day of February 1892.
HENRY MILWARD & SONS, LIMITED,
By Charles Flintward, Director.
WILLIAM GUISE.