US1457926A - Casting lure - Google Patents

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June 5, 1923. 1,457,926

M. S. DUNKELBERGER CASTI NG LURE Filed July 1, 1922 INVNTORI @WWE @W 7W MM .254,- ATTORNEY Patented June 5, i923.

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CASTING LURE.

Application filed July 1,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MrLroN S. DUNKELJ nnnenn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casting Lures, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a new device for catching game fish in the form of an interchangeable bug or fly. It is economic and convenient for fishermen, since one fly or bug may be used with various colored wings, It is quite difficult to carry one body for each set of wings as at present, whereas my device makes it possible to carry three or four different colored bodies and fifty or more different colored wings to provide an assortment of several hundred different styles of bugs or flies. Furthermore, if the wings are caught or snagged, the entire bug or fly is not ruined, since a new set of wings may be easily attached.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is top plan view of my improved casting lure. Figure 2 is a plan view of an attachable wing having a pink or red color. Figure 3 is a plan view of a green wing. Fig- 4 is a plan view of a brown or purple wing of a diferent design. Figure 5 is a side elevational view. of my improved casting lure. Figure 6 is a front end view of the same. Figure 7 is a perspective view of the casting lure with the clip over the wing. Figure 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of the lure, showing the hook running through the body. And Figure 9 is a perspective view of the casting lure, showing how the wing is removed from the body.

Throughout the specification and drawings, similar reference characters denote corresponding parts.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a detailed description of the form of the embodiment of my invention illustrated therein, the numeral 1 designates an elongated tapering body preferably constructed of wood and through which passes the shank portion of a hook 2. Provided in the upper front portion of the body 1, is a horizontal groove 3 into which there may be readily slipped or inserted the front portion of a twin wing-piece 4.- made of celluloid or waxed paper. As above pointed out in the description of the various figures, each.

-Figure 3, inserted in its place.

1922?. Serial No. 572,141.

wing-piece may be of different color, so that any number'of wing-pieces may be used with one body 1 to imitate different colored flies or bugs.

After the front end of a wing-piece 4 is inserted in the groove 3 of the body 1, the following means are provided for firmly securing it to the latter. Passing through holes in the middle portion of the body 1 from the top to the bottom of the latter, are the free ends 5", 5 of a spring wire 5 which is turned at its front end to provide a triangular portion 6 that is adapted to be sprung over the eyelet end 7 of the hook 2. (See Figures 6, 7 and 9.) The eyelet end 7 of the hook projects outwardly from the body 1, below the groove 3 therein, a sufficient distance to permit the triangularportion 6 of the wire 5 to be easily hooked over it after a wing-piece 4: has been inserted in said groove, to firmly retain said Wing piece in the groove when the lure thus formed is used in fishing. The front end of the wire 5 may be easily disengaged from the eyelet end 7 of the hook 2 to permita wing-piece 4 to be withdrawn from the groove 3 in the body 1 and another wing-piece of a different color such as the green one shown in In Figure 4- I have shown a wing-piece of a slightly different shape in that the ends of the wings terminate in reduced rounded. portions 8, 8, which wing-piece may also be readily applied to the body 1 in the manner hereinbefore described.

It will now be seen that with one body a large number of different colored or shaped wings may be used to provide an assortment of artificial flies or bugs that may be easily carried and assembled by a fisherman. The device'is not only economical from the standpoint of initial cost. but also in use, for if the wings are caught or snagged the entire bug is not ruined since a new set of wings can easily be attached to the body 1.

I do not wish to be limited to the details of construction and arrangement herein shown or described, and any changes or modifications may be made therein within the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a casting lure, the combination with a body, of a wing-piece therefor and spring means for removably attaching said wingpiece to the body. 0 ,2. In a casting lure, the combination with rig a body having a horizontel groove in its front end, of a, Wing-piece adapted to be inserted in said groove, and a spring element attachedto body for firmly securing said Wing-piecein the groove. I

3. In a casting lure, the combination a body having a horizontal groove in its front end, or a Wingpiece adapted to-be inserted in said groove, a hook Whose shank I 19 projects 'longitndinal-lythrough said body,

, I and having an eyelet end extending .a short -distanoe in front of-iseid body, a (bent .Wire

adgrpted to be hooked over the eyelet end of the hook in front er the Wing-piece in said groove.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this29th day of June, 1922.

MILTON S. DUNKELBERGER.

Witness? I HoWARD S. S ITH.

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