US295758A

US295758A - Spoon-bait

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Publication number: US295758A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-03-25
Anticipated expiration: 1901-03-25

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES B. HIBBARD, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SPOON-BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,758, dated March 25, 1884:.

`Application iled June 28, 1883. (Model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAELEs B. HIBBARD, of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spoon-Baits, and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, 4such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.`

My invention relates to improvements in spoon-baits, of the class wherein the spoon is attached to a supporting-wire by a yielding connection which permits the spoon to be movedinwardly, and when the pressure is released to return to its ordinary position.

The object of myinvention is to simplify the construction ofthe connecting devices, and also to locate them so that they will not interfere with the action of the spoon or with the line.

` My invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts composing the device, `as will be fully hereinafter explained. p

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is va side elevation. Figi 3 is an elevation of the spoon. Fig. 4 is an end view.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the wire having a loop at each end, to

which are attachedthe hook and line.

C represents the` spoon, having at its forward end an eye which slides upon the rod, and is limited in its motion by the inner end of the loop. Uponthe spoon C is soldered aspring, D, composed of a length of wire bent to form a double spring and having its bent portion formed in a loop. Between the parallel sides of the spring is soldered a stop, E, the free end of which is curved outwardly and then down, as shown. The spring is connected Fig. 2 is a detail of lever F.

to the wire by an arm or lever, F, having at one end an eye, I), which slides upon the rod,

and at the other end a curved loop, c, which is clearly illustrated in detail in Fig. 2. The

straight portion of the lever passes between the parallel sides of the spring, and is then curved round and under such spring,as shown, the lower portion of the loop fitting within the space left by forming the curve in the end of the stop, as before described. Obviously now the spoon may revolve on the wire and may slide freely back and forth thereon. At the same time the spoon may be pressed inwardly, which will cause the loop on the end thereby changes the relative position of the4 spoon and its supporting-wire, until such parts assume their iirst positions.`

I am aware that spring-connections between the spoon and its supportingwires are not new, and I do not make any claim, broadly,

to such construction, my claims being limited to the improvement in details which I have invented.

What I claim isl. The combination of the wire A, the spoon l VO, the spring D, secured to the spoon, and the independent lever F, connected to the spring at one end, as described, and at the other to the wire A.

2. The combination, with the wire A and sliding lever F, of the sliding revolving spoon C, having the doubled springrod D and stop E, substantially as described.

CHARLES B. HIBBARD.