A New or Improved Apparatus, Device, or Arrangement for Holding Securely in Position a Dead Fish or other substance used as Bait in Fishing.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1895-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus, Device, or Arrangement for Holding
Securely in Position a Dead Fish or other substance used as Bait
in Fishing.
JOHN THOMAS EMERY Ironmonger Prospect Cottage George Lane South
Woodford Essex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A wire doubled on to itself forming a paralell bar or shaft (A) Fig. 1.
The two ends of this wire are formed into two eyes (B) Fig. 1 either by turning
the wire itself, or flattening it out and drilling the holes through the parts thus
flattened. Through these eyes a rivet is passed forming a spindle (C) Fig. 1 upon
which a hook is hinged. This hook is formed of wire with two eyes of unequal
size (Fig. 2).
The smaller eye (D) Fig. 2 is flattened slightly and through this eye the rivet
or spindle passes.
The two eyes are so arranged that when the point of the hook (E) Fig. 2 has
passed into position through the paralell shaft or bar (A) Fig. 1, the larger
eye (F) Fig. 2 shall be in a direct line with the said paralell shaft or bar (A)
Fig. 1.
Upon each wire forming the said paralell shaft or bar, a wing or fan of metal is
fixed.
At the extreme point of the said paralell shaft or bar farthest away from the
hook (E) a piece of lead or other metal tapered at both ends is fitted, either
movable or fixed (H) Fig. 1.
December 20th 1894.
JOHN THOMAS EMERY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus, Device, or Arrangement for Holding
Securely in Position a Dead Fish or other substance used as Bait
in Fishing.
JOHN THOMAS EMERY Prospect Cottage George Lane South Woodford
Essex Ironmonger 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 :-
In this my Complete Specification I purpose first describing more exactly and
particularly the method of making the principal parts of my improved apparatus
out of round wire and sheet metal, as appears in my Provisional Specification, and
afterwards other ways which I may adopt to carry out my invention, and the one I
use by preference.
I will therefore first describe more exactly the first method, and the drawings
referred to herein will be those left with my Provisional Specification until
otherwise stated.

page_text: By referring to A. Fig. 1 therein, it will be seen that the two parallel sides of
the bar or shaft (hence called the "parallel bar") do not after the single piece of
wire has been doubled on to itself, touch each other, but stand apart about
one-sixteenth of an inch, the middle opening between forming what is in effect a
slot.
The two ends of this wire are formed into two eyes B. either by turning these
ends into rings, or by flattening out the ends and drilling holes through the parts
thus flattened. Through these eyes a rivet C is passed forming a spindle upon
which a hook is hinged.
This hook is fornied of wire, and it will be seen by reference to Fig. 2. that it is
so beut as to have two eyes of unequal size, a smaller one D. which works on the
rivet or spindle just mentioned and a larger on F. for the attachment of the swivel
and the fish-hooks which are used with all such spinning devices. This hook
shown in Fig. 2. can be thrown back, or can when required, be brought down 80
that its point E. shall pass through the opening or slot between the two parallel
wires of the bar or shaft, and when in this position the larger eye F. of the hook is
so arranged as to be always in a direct line with the bar or shaft.
I then upon each wire of the parallel bar or shaft, fix by soldering, a wing, or
fan, made out of sheet metal, each bent at the end in a contrary direction to give
the spinning motion, and these wings or fans are fixed close to the eyes B (see
Fig. 1.) through which the rivet passes, upon which the hook above described is
hinged, while at the opposite end of the bar or shaft, I fit a piece of lead tapered at
each end and either moveable or fixed; this piece of lead is denoted by H.
In place however of forming this parallel bar or shaft out of round wire doubled,
I may form it, to serve the same object, out of a single piece of "strip" wire, such
as is used and well known as "kinder garten" wire, in which case I form the slot
or opening in the middle of the bar or shaft, by a piercing or stamping process.
And by this means I am enabled to make the slot of any suitable length instead of
its extending the whole length of the bar or shaft, which is necessarily the case
when this is formed out of wire doubled upon itself, and as this slot or opening
begins at the top of the bar or shaft, so far as it extends downwards into the body
of this, it converts it into two parallel wires which can be ringed at the ends to
receive the rivet upon which the hook is hinged, and upon these wires the sheet
metal wings or fans can be fixed in the same manner as when the bar or shaft is
made of doubled wire.
A representation of a bar or shaft formed out of strip wire will be seen by
referring to Fig. 14 filed with this my Complete Specification, bearing the same
letters of reference as in Fig. 1. filed with my Provisional Specification, and
denoting corresponding parts, the slot however in addition being designated by S.
In place, however, of using either round wire doubled, or the drawn or cut
"strip" wire, I prefer to carry out my invention by what is virtually an equivalent
to both these, pamely a bar or shaft produced by stamping out of sheet metal a
form the same in effect as the bar or shaft formed of "strip" wire; this method
giving me the means of producing the slot or opening, and also in the same
operation, of forming the wings or fans, thus saving a process.
The form thus produced by stamping out of sheet material instead of using
drawn material will be seen by referring to Fig. 34.
Herein it will be seen that the slot S in the middle of the bar or shaft A is
represented only of the length actually required when a hook such as that shown
in Fig. 2 is used in connection with it. I may, however, make the slot or opening
longer if desirable, its commencement being regulated by the length of the hook
just mentioned. And the two little projections (see B Fig. 34) at the top when
bent over into rings, form the eyes through which passes the spindle upon which
the book is hinged.
This hook just mentioned I make upon the same principle and for the same
purpose as the book shown in Fig. 2 in the drawings filed with my Provisional
Specification, I, however, now prefer to vary its shape somewhat. Instead of

page_text: making it to have two distinct eyes, I form it with only one (shown at D Fig. 2ª in
the drawings filed herewith) for the rivet to pass through, and with a partial eye
at F. which answers the purpose of holding the swivel and fish-hooks used in
connection with spinning bait appliances. And the general form of the book
I have been describing will be seen by referring to Fig. 2ª.
And I put together the apparatus in the following manner-
I place the hook so that its distinct eye shall come between the two eyes or
rings formed at B Fig. 34 from the two little projections, and then pass through the
three, and fix, the rivet upon which the hook is hinged, I then with pliers bend the
ends of the wings G. G. in contrary directions to obtain the spinning motion when
the apparatus is in use, and the lead being attache:l to the lower end of the bar or
shaft, the whole is completed and ready for the attachment of the customary swivel
and fish-hooks.
And in the respective illustrations accompanying this description the same
letters of reference denote the same parts of the apparatus or their equivalents.
And I apply an apparatus made in accordance with my invention in the
following manner-
Taking a dead fish bait and raising the hinged hook, I pass the bar or shaft down
the bait's throat until the wings of the appliance touch its mouth, I then press
down the point E of the hook through the shoulders of the fish until it enters and
passes through the slot or opening S in the bar or shaft; it is then securely in
position for use.
Fig. 4 is an illustration of the application of my invention to a dead fish bait, in
which diagram the part of the fish to which it is applied is expressed by dotted
lines and supposed to be transparent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The above described method of holding securely a dead fish or other substance
used as a bait in fishing by means of a hinged hook passing thro' the said bait and
fitting into a slot or opening in the bar or shaft of an apparatus made substantially
as above set forth.
June 25th 1895.
JOHN THOMAS EMERI.