Natural or Artificial Bait.
Year: 1887

page_text: Natural or Artificial Bait.
I HOWARD LIVESEY, of the County Hotel, Lancaster in the County of Lancaster,
Gentleman, 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 :-
The principal feature of this invention consists in placing the minnow or other
natural or artificial bait upon a thin sword-like blade composed of soft metal such as
copper or other bendable material so as to permit of the bait (with the blade inserted
within its interior) being curved to any desired extent and thus cause the required
amount of spinning or gyratory effect or motion to be imparted to the bait when it is
drawn through the water.
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The blade is pointed at one end and weighted at its other end which is provided
with a loop and attached to an ordinary swivel upon the end of the fishing line. A
mounting preferably consisting of a single line of gut with double or treble hooks
at intervals hangs from the loop at the weighted or head end of the blade and near its
pointed or tail end the blade is pierced with a hole through which when in place
within the bait a bent wire fastened to the mounting is passed so as to secure the bait
in position and prevent its being pulled off the blade.
In order that my invention may be better understood I annex a sheet of Drawings
In which
Fig. 1 is a side view and
Fig. 2 a plan view of the bendable blade-the "mounting" and swivel as above
mentioned being also shewn in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a side view and
Fig. 4 a plan view of a natural minnow placed upon the blade the latter being
shewn at that part within the bait-in dotted lines.
a is the bendable blade having one end 1 pointed as shewn and the other end 2
hickened or weighted as above mentioned so as to dispense with the necessity of the
asual shotting or weighting of the line for the purpose of sinking the minnow or
ther bait and keeping the head part of the bait downwards and thereby to give it a
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more natural appearance and motion. b is a loop formed on the end 2 of the blade a
to which is attached the swivel c fastened to the end of the line d. The swivel may,
however, be placed in any other desired position on the line. e is the "mounting'
having preferably three sets of double or treble hooks and (opposite the hole
the blade a) carrying the bent barbed wire h which is to be pushed through the body
of the minnow i or other bait and through the hole gas shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.
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The bait when placed upon the blade a may along with the bendable blade be
curved (see Fig. 4) to a greater or less degree according to the speed at which it may
be desired that the spinning or rotation of the bait should obtain."
Any kind of bait (other than minnows as hereinbefore described) such as cels,
worms, shrimps, prawns, or other kinds of larger fish or artificial lures made of silk,
cloth, india-rubber and the like such as are usually employed as bait by anglers and
fishermen may be used in conjunction with my improved spinning tackle.
The above described arrangement of spinning tackle provides a ready means both
for putting on and taking off the bait, and for effecting the rotatory movement required
without interfering unduly with its natural appearance; the bendable blade a being
moreover placed within the body of the bait is practically invisible, whereas in other
arrangements of tackle for a similar purpose heretofore known to me, projecting
metal wings and other unsightly or unnatural looking incumbrances are required to
effect the spinning and to fasten the bait in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner it is to be performed 1 declare that what I claim is :-
The use or employment of spinning tackle for minnow or other natural or artificial
bait for angling purposes having a bendable blade and attendant appliances in manner
substantially as above described and shewn in the Drawings for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1887.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.