US655603A - Artificial bait. - Google Patents

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No. 655,603. Pamnted Aug. 7, I900. B. B. CANTBELL.

ABTlFlGlAL BAIT.

(Application filed Dec. '1, 1899.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR W 6M ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

Gui 45 @044 NiT ROBERT B. OANTRELL, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,603, dat d August '7, 1900.

Application filed December '7, 1899. Serial No, 739,485. No model) To (l/ZZ whom it 12mg concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. CANTRELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York,borough of Brooklyn,county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial Baits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of artificial baits which are detachable from the hook, of which that illustrated in the United States Patent No. 633,797, granted to me September 26, 1899, is an example. The bait illustrated and claimed in my said patent is in the nature of an artificial fly and is tied on a slender tube which is adapted to he slipped over the snell onto the shank of the hook. As such artificial flies are usually composed of three parts-namely, the wings, the hackle, and the bod yand as the distinction between the different artificial flies used by anglers vary mainlyin combining together differently colored and formed wings, hackles, and bodies, the present invention consists, broadly, in these three parts or sections tied separately on tubes or formed tubular, so that a fly or bait may be made up of any three sections, wings, hackle, or body that may be desired. Thus if an angler has, say, half a dozen wings and the same number of hackles and bodies he may make up from these two hundred and sixteen different kinds of flies. This enables the angler to carry ina very small book an immense number of different kinds of flies suited to all occasions.

In the accompanying drawings the pre ferred construction is illustrated.

Figure 1 shows the separate parts or sections of an artificial fly constructed according to the present invention, and Fig. 2 shows the parts assembled on a hook.

The section A, usually called the wings, consists of feathers a, tied on a slender tube a, near or at one end of the same. The section B, usually called the hackle, consists of some fine filamentous material I) tied on a short piece of tubing 5. This latter tube will be of a size to fit snugly over the tube a of the section A. The section C, called the body, will be of some suitable material 0, tied or secured on a rather long piece of tubing a, of the same diameter, by preference, as the tube Z). The material 0 maybe of any suitable kind. Various materials are em ployed for the bodies and other parts of artificial flies.

In assembling the several sections of the fly (see Fig. 2) the body 0 is first passed over the snell cl and onto the shank of the hook D. Then the hackle B is placed, and lastly the section A or wings, the tube a of the latter passing telescopically into the tubes of the hackle and body.

It will be understood that I do not limit myself to any special materials for making the parts of the fly nor to any particular kind of tubing. Uusually the materials will be those ordinarily employed in tying artificial flies, and the tubing may be of aluminium, celluloid, or the like. So long as the sections are tubular and have sufficient rigidity they will serve the purposes of the invention, and the manner of making them tubular is not important. Where a tube is used in the sections, it may be slightly flared at one or both ends, so as to secure the fly material on them the better. I would say that a celluloid solution is known in the arts, and I may employ this solution in forming the sections tubular.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A detachable artificial fly composed of two or more tubular and interchangeable, separate parts, adapted to be slipped onto the hook in succession, substantially as set forth.

2. A detachable, artificial bait composed of sections formed on tubes which enter telescopically one within another, the smaller tube being adapted to fit snugly on the shank of a hook.

8. A detachable, artificial fly composed of separate tubular sections, namely, the wings, the hackle, and the body, substantially as set forth.

4:. A detachable, artificial fly, composed of three sections, the section A having in it a tube a, and the sections B and 0 having in them tubes of such size as to slip over the tube 0., substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 25th day of November, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT B. CANTRELL. lVitnesses:

HENRY CoNNErr, PETER A. Ross.

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