Improved Means for Attaching Reels to Fishing-rods.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Reels to Fishing-rods.
We, WILLIAM HARDY, and JOHN JAMES HARDY, trading as Hardy Brothers,
of North British Works, Alnwick, in the County of Northumberland, Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improved means for attaching to a fishing-rod the reel
on which the running line is carried; our object being to provide a reel-mounting
which not only holds the reel more securely, but is better adapted for use with
reels presenting considerable variation in size.
A reel-fastening constructed in the usual manner consists of two rings encircling
the butt, one of these being fixed, whilst the other is free to slide a limited distance.
One end of the reel-plate is inserted beneath the fixed ring (a recess being formed
in the substance of the butt of a depth corresponding with the thickness of the
plate) and the loose ring, which may be either parallel or taper, is then applied
over the opposite arm of the reel-plate. This arrangement is unsuited for use
with reels presenting any considerable variation in size. Moreover, if the sliding
ring yield at all, it at once becomes loose; and there is risk of the reel becoming
entirely disengaged.
In a reel-mounting constructed according to our improved method, the movable
ring, instead of being in the form of a cylindrical or slightly conical tube, is
formed of round, half-round or flat wire, bent spirally; the convolutions, whereof
there are several, lying close together. Or a similar ring may be produced from a
tube cut spirally. In either case, one extremity of the spiral is, by preference,
mounted in a solid ring; whilst the remaining portion, which is intended to embrace
the arm of the reel-plate, is free to expand circumferentially as it is forced
over the said plate. Under these circumstances, the ring exerts a spring-like
grip, instead of a dead pressure, upon the reel-plate, and is not liable to shake
loose.
A spiral ring of the kind described may be applied either to the upper or to the
lower arm of the reel-plate.
The stationary socket, whether above or below the reel, may also be of a
yielding or resilient character. With this object, it may be formed as a split tube,
and fastened at the back of. the rod only; that is to say, on the side of the rod
opposite to that occupied by the reel. There may be a gap between the edges on
either side of the split, or they may overlap one another. Or they may be
furnished with tension-springs tending to draw the said edges together, and so to
exert a yielding pressure upon the arm of the reel-plate with which the said socket
or ring engages.
In some instances, we adopt a similar method of construction for the movable
ring, instead of the spiral method hereinbefore described.
Dated the 3rd day of January 1893.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Reels to Fishing-rods.
We, WILLIAM HARDY, and JOHN JAMES HARDY, trading as Hardy Brothers,
of North British Works, Alnwick, in the County of Northumberland, Manufacturers,
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 improved means for attaching to a fishing-rod the reel
on which the running line is carried; our object being to provide a reel-mounting
which not only holds the reel more securely, but is better adapted for use with
reels presenting considerable variation in size.
A reel-fastening constructed in the usual manner consists of two rings encircling
the butt, one of these being fixed, whilst the other is free to slide a limited
distance. One end of the reel-plate is inserted beneath the fixed ring (a recess
being formed in the substance of the butt of a depth corresponding with the
thickness of the plate) and the loose ring, which may be either parallel or taper,"
is then applied over the opposite arm of the reel-plate. This arrangement is
'unsuited for use with reels presenting any considerable variation in size. Moreover,
if the sliding ring yield at all, it at once gets loose; and there is a risk of the reel
becoming entirely disengaged.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the lower part of a fishing-rod furnished with the
improved means for attaching the reel in this figure the reel-plate is shown but
the other parts of the reel are omitted.
:
Figure 2 is a corresponding side elevation representing the reel attached to the
rod by the improved device.
In a reel-mounting constructed according to our improved method, the movable
ring A, instead of being in the form of a cylindrical or slightly conical tube, is
made of round, half-round or flat wire, bent spirally; the convolutions, whereof
there are several (in the present illustration about a dozen) lying close together.
Or a similar ring may be produced from a tube cut spirally. Such a ring exerts a
spring-like grip, instead of a dead pressure, upon the reel-plate, and is not liable
to shake loose.
One extremity of the spiral may, if preferred, be mounted in a solid ring; the
remaining portion, which is intended to embrace the arm of the reel-plate, being
left free to expand circumferentially as it is forced over that arm.
It will be obvious that a spiral ring of the kind hereinbefore described may be
applied either to the upper or to the lower arm of the reel-plate.
The stationary socket C, which in the drawings is shown below the reel D, may,
instead of being solid, be of a yielding or resilient character. This socket may be
placed above instead of below the reel. It may be formed as a split tube, and
fastened at the back of the rod only; that is, on the side of the rod opposite to
that occupied by the reel. This split may be widened so as to present a gap
between the edges of the metal, or the edges may overlap one another. Or they
may be furnished with tension-springs tending to contract the split band, and so to
exert a yielding pressure upon that arm of the reel-plate which engages with the
said socket or ring."
In some instances, we adopt a similar method of construction for the movable
ring, instead of the spiral method hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim :-
1. The improved means for attaching reels to fishing-rods, arranged and applied
substantially as herein described.

page_text: 2. In attaching a reel to a fishing-rod, the employment of a movable ring com-
posed of several spiral convolutions which permit of slight circumferential
expansion of the ring taking place and ensure the reel-plate being secured to the
rod with a spring-like grip, substantially as herein described.
Dated the 4th day of October 1893.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.