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APPARATUS FOR SECURING FISH UPON WIRES IN REGULAR ROWS.

,033. Patented Apr. 26,1898.

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EDVARD ANDERSEN, OF STAVANGER, NOBFVAY.

APPARATUS FOR SECURING FISH UPON WIRES IN REGULAR ROWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,033, dated April 26, 1898.

A plication filed. December 31, 1897. Serial No. 665,206. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDVARD ANDERSEN, policeman, a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, and a resident of Stavanger, Norway, have invented certain new and useful Apparatus for Securing Fish upon Wires in Regular Rows, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for a quick, practical, and on the whole a rational way of drawing fish, particularly sprat and small herring,on wire for the purpose of smoking or for other purposes.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of part of the apparatus, the so-called lock being let down or opened. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, the lock having been lifted up or closed. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same in a section on the line a: as, Fig. 1, the lock having been opened, and on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is the same section, the lock being closed.

The apparatus consists of a table or a plate a, that may be placed on the bottom of a barrel or another suitable stand. One or all the edges of this table are fitted with arrangements which effect an even threading of the fish on a wire and which form the threading apparatus proper. The more of these threading apparatuses that are connected with the table a the greater, of course, the number of persons that may work at the table.

I) is a number of wedge-formed knobs whose pointed ends are turned toward the table, Fig. 1. A cross-piece 0, Figs. 3 and 4, is fastened to the edge of the table underneath these knobs, and the so-called look is fitted to this cross-piece. The lock consists of a list cl, fixed to the cross-piece c and fitted with a row of vertical tapering notches e, falling between each of the knobs b, as will be seen from Figs. 1 and 2. Through all the notches along the cross-piece 0 passes an elastic ribbon f, of india-rubber. To the list or part d there is, by means of hinges g, connected a similar part or flap h, with tapering notches e analogouswith the notches e and corresponding to these when the lock is closed. By these means there is formed a row of holes consisting of the notches 6 6 and in these holes, Fig. 4, the fish is placed, having been carried forward by the workman for his hand singly between the knobs Z), head downward.

z is a plate of zinc which, fastened outside to the upper part of the part h when the lock is closed, Fig. 4., will place itself against the row of knobs b and hold in its position the fish that is successively being pushed down.

A; is an angle-iron running along the notches e and falling into a slit in these. The angleiron is connected with the part it by means of hinges Z, Figs. 2, 3, and 4. Then the fish is being put in, this angle-iron is opened out, (see the dotted line, Fig. 4,) but when the whole row is full the angle-iron is pushed in, thereby pressing the whole row of fishes against the elastic ribbon f. By this means all the heads of the fishes get in a straight line. This having been done, a wire is pushed through the groove m, that runs through the whole row of notches, and all the fishes are in an easy manner symmetrically and quickly threaded on the wire. As may be plainly seen from Fig. 3, the groove m is formed by two corresponding seniicylindrical slits in the parts d and h.

The filled wire is afterward removed from the apparatus, the part 71 having been let down. (See Fig. 3.)

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. An apparatus for threading fish on wire comprising separable clamping members to hold and aline the heads of the fish, said members having an aperture between them through which a wire maybe passed, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the parts dand h adapted to be separated and having an opening between them for receiving a threading-wire for engaging the fish and the elastic ribbon f against which the fish hear when the parts are brought together, substantially as described.

3. In a fish-threading device, a table, a se ries of knobs projecting therefrom and means for holding the fish in the notches formed between the said knobs, apertures being left for the introduction of a wire, substantially as described.

4. A threading device for fish comprising ence of two Witnesses, this 11th dayofDeceInthe socketed part to receive the fish sepaber,41897.

rately with their heads in line and apertured to receive a threading-Wire, substantially as EDVARD ANDERSEN' 5 described. Witnesses:

.In testimony that I claim the foregoing as OLE INGELVEOHT NELLIESEN,

my invention I have signed my name in pres- OLE KNUDHEN.

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