Year: 1899

page_text: ALFRED HEMSTED, Lower Shuckburgh Vicarage, Daventry, Clerk in Holy
Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is an artificial bait for fishing fitted with improved reversable
fins.
The body of the bait which is of the usual fish-like shape has two trunnions
or pivots cast on near the head of the bait, one on either side, and opposite one
another. Round these trunnions or pivots, and concentric with them, two
round recesses are bored of about the same diameter as the body of the bait,
so that the edges of these recesses are lower on the sides in a line with the body
of the bait. The fins consist of about right-angled material: one side of the
angle, which forms the base of the fin, is bored to fit on to the trunnion or pivot
and rounded to fit into the recess. The trunnion or pivot is rivetted and the
base of the fin is then made slightly eliptical and can thus be arranged to turn
to any desired angle and to stick at that angle.
1000
W. B. TANNER,
100, Cannon Street, E.C.
An Artificial Bait for Fishing Fitted with Reversible Fins.
I, ALFRED HEMSTED, of Lower Shuckburgh Vicarage, Daventry, Clerk in
Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of an artificial bait for fishing provided with reversible
fins of the kind hereinafter described whereby the angle which the fins make
with each other may be adjusted within certain limits and the spinning motion
of the bait suited to the requirement of the person fishing, the reversible fins
preserving their adjusted position without the use of any device for locking or
fixing them in their adjusted position. Further, with my improved fishing bait
twisting or kinking of the fishing line may be remedied by simply reversing
the fins.
In constructing an artificial bait according to my invention I make the body
of the bait of the usual fish like shape. I make the said body of the bait with
pivots or trunnions (preferably in one piece with the body) on or near and at

page_text: opposite sides of the head of the bait. The parts of the body of the bait around
the pivots or trunnions are recessed. Each of the fins is provided with a
circular washer the fin proper projecting from one side of the washer at right
angles thereto. The washer which constitutes the base or bearing of the fin
has an axial hole of a diameter proper to fit the pivot or trunnion on the body
and when the fin is applied to the pivot or trunnion of the body the washer
takes in the recess herein before referred to in the body. The fin is secured to
the body of the bait by riveting the end of the pivot or trunnion over the washer
so as to leave the same capable of turning on the pivot or trunnion. The
angular motion of the fin on the pivot or trunnion is limited by making the outer
edge of the washer slightly elliptical either before or after it has been fitted to
the body of the bait.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent elevations at right
angles to one another of a complete bait containing my improvements.
Figure 3 represents in side elevation and Figure 4 in horizontal section the
body of the bait separately, that is, before the attachment of the reversible fins
and flight of hooks.
Figures 5 and 6 represent in side elevation and plan respectively one of the
fins separately.
Figure 7 represents in side elevation the fin Figure 5 after the hammering or
other operation by which the washer part of the fin is made slightly elliptical.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
a is the body of the bait and a², a² the pivots or trunnions at opposite sides
of the head of the same; a', a¹ are the annular recesses around the pivots or
trunnions a²; b, 2 are the reversible fins one of which is shown separately in
Figures 5 and 6; b, bare the fins proper and 62, 12 are the washers at right
angles thereto which washers take and turn on the pivots or trunnions a², a³,
the said washers 63, 62 when in place on the pivots or trunnions a², a² occupying
the annular recesses a¹, a¹.
It will be understood by reference to the drawing that the two fins 6, 6a;
b, 62 are independent of each other and each fin has to be turned independently
of the other on the adjustment of the angle at which the fins are to work.
The fins are attached by riveting the ends of the pivots or trunnions a³, a²
over the washers 62, 62 as will be seen by reference to Figures 1 and 2.
In order to preserve the fins in any position to which they may have been
adjusted I make the washers 62, 62, preferably after the fins bb, b b have
been secured to the body of the bait, slightly elliptical as will be understood by
reference to Figure 7 the said elliptical shape being given to the washers 62 by
hammering the edges of the said washers projecting above the shallower parts
of the recesses a¹, al so that on the turning of the fins the said hammered edges
bind in the parts of the recesses of greatest depth and consequently make the
fins capable of retaining the positions to which they have been adjusted and
rendering unnecessary any supplementary fastening or locking device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention:-
First; Providing artificial baits with fins capable of turning independently
of each other substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Secondly; Providing the bodies of artificial baits with pivots or trunnions
on opposite sides and preferably in one piece with the said bodies and arranging
on the said pivots or trunnions fins substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Thirdly Making the washers or bearing parts of fins of the kind claimed in
the prior claim slightly elliptical and making in the body of the bait and around

page_text: the pivots, depressions or recesses for receiving the washers so as to make the
said washers capable of retaining the positions to which they have been adjusted
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the Tenth day of November 1899