Year: 1888

page_text: 1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex 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 that class of fishing-rods which are made in several
sections each section composed of a tapering metal tube.
In the usual construction of this class of rod, the rod is made of a telescopic
character, each section from the butt being constructed so as to slide into the next
section toward the butt, and so that all may be inclosed within the butt. To extend
the rod the sections are respectively drawn out, and each section comes to a bearing
in the smaller end of the next section toward the butt, so as to make a firm tubular
rod, and so that the line may run through the rod.
It is often desirable that the, sections should be separable, but yet retain the same
tubular character as that of the telescopic rod referred to.
The object of this invention is to produce such a rod, and it consists in constructing
the rod of several tubular sections, each section gradually tapering, but at both ends
made of cylindrical shape, the diameter of the cylindrical portions of the respective
sections corresponding to the next adjacent sections, and so that the cylindrical
portion of one section at one end may be set into the cylindrical portion of the end
of the next adjacent section and as more fully hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section, showing two joints of a rod embodying
this invention.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal section of a single section of the rod detached.
A represents the butt section, B the next or second section, and C the third
section, the illustrations of the three sections being sufficient for the proper
understanding of the invention.
Each section is made from elastic sheet-metal, preferably thin sheet steel, rolled
into tubular form the edges brought together and secured or not, as may be desirable,
or the tube may be otherwise formed the construction of the tube itself, as a tube
constituting no part of my present invention, it being sufficient to say that the tube
may be made in the usual manner.

page_text: The sections taper, so that the rod gradually diminishes in diameter toward the tip,
but instead of being made tapering throughout as in the usual construction, the butt
end of the sections are made cylindrical as at D. Figure 2, and the tip end is also
made cylindrical, as, represented at E Figure 2, the intermediate or body portion of
the section tapering and so that the cylindrical portion E is of smaller diameter than
the cylindrical portion D). The diameter of the cylindrical portion D is made to
correspond with the cylindrical portion of the tip end of the next section, say as F
Figure 1, and preferably so that the butt end of each section may set into the
tip end of the next section toward the butt, the diameters of the corresponding
sections being such as to produce sufficient friction between the two to hold them
together, but to prevent the one section being forced rearward into the next section
toward the butt, a band or collar a is formed on the section, at the termination of the
cylindrical portion, as seen in Figure 2, which forms a shoulder to come to a stop
against the end of the section into, which that section is inserted.
:
The other end of the respective sections, as E Figure 2, is of corresponding
cylindrical shape, to fit or receive the corresponding end of the next section as the
case may be preferably a band is placed around the end of the cylindrical portion
which is to receive within it tlie corresponding cylindrical portion of the next section,
as represented this band serves as a hoop around the end to prevent the possible
splitting, or of the separation if the edges of the metal are not united. These bands
or collars may be provided with loops or rings, as d, through which the line may run
outside the rod, but as the rod is tubular, the line may run through the inside of the
rod if preferred.
The joint portions may taper slightly toward the butt, but they should be substantially
cylindrical.
By this invention the respective sections are constructed to be separable from each
other, as in the usual sectional non-metallic rods, but the joint portions of each of the
respective sections are made integral with the section itself.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, 1 declare that what I claim is:
First. The herein described fishing-rod, consisting of several sections made from
tubular metal, the sections tapering except at the butt and tip portions which said
butt and tip portions of the respective sections are substantially cylindrical, the butt
end of one section corresponding to the tip end of the next section at the rear, and
so that the cylindrical portion of one may be set into the corresponding cylindrical
portion of the other, substantially as described, and whereby the joint portions of
each section are made integral therewith, and the several sections separable.
Second. A tubular metallic fishing rod made in several sections, the body of each
section tapering from the butt toward the tip, the butt and tip ends of each section
made cylindrical and corresponding in diameter to the butt or tip end of the adjacent
sections, as the case may be, and so that the adjacent end of one section may be set
into the corresponding end of the next section, the said sections provided with a
stationary band or collar at the junction of the cylindrical tapering portions,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
Datad this 30th Jy of Databari
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.