US668254A

US668254A - Float for fish-lines.

Info

Publication number: US668254A
Application number: US3872100A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles W Dickinson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-12-05
Filing date: 1900-12-05
Publication date: 1901-02-19
Anticipated expiration: 1918-02-19

Description

llNTTno STATES PATENT UTTTCE, I

CHARLES W. DICKINSON, OF YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

FLOAT FO R FlSHI- LINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,254, dated February 19, 1901.

Application filed December 5, 1900. Serial No. 88,721. (No model) To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. DICKIN- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ypsilanti, county of Wash tenaw, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Floats for Fish-Lines; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to floats for fishinglines, and has for its object an improved float which can be easily and readily placed on the line without tying, knotting, or looping the line and which will be held securely in place on the line at all times.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the parts assembled to make the complete float. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the assembled parts. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the central plug. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation at line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The float consists of an oval bob A, through which there is a conical hole at, extending lengthwise and having its larger end toward the lowerend of the bob, the lower end. of the bob being the pointed end of the oval. Through the walls of the bob is a slit 1), which forms a passage to the conical hole a and extends lengthwise of the bob. A conical plug B is arranged to be inserted into the hole a, with the smaller end of the conical plug projecting from the top of the hob and with the larger end projecting from the bottom. The plug is long enough to extend beyond the extremities of the bob at both ends. The lower part of it is made slightly smaller in diameter, leaving the upper two-thirds or thereabout of a proper diameter and taper to fit tightly in the top end and in the bottom end of the bob, while the middle portion between is free. When constructed in this way, the plug is not liable to split the lower and weaker end of the bob. The clearance, however, between the plug and the bob is only very slight; The plug B is slitted lengthwise with a slit or kerf about the size of the line to be used, and the slit extends into the plug from the surface to a little beyond the center line.

In use the line is drawn into the plug and another portion of the line is passed through the slit b, and the plug with the line in it is then inserted from below upward into the bob, with the slit in the plug lying out of register with the slit in the bob. As the plug is forced up into the bob the edges of the slit are brought together and the two sides of the slit are compressed on the line, so that the bob becomes fixed in place on the line when the plug is driven into the bob with a slight force.

By making the plug conical and to be inserted in a conical hole which has the larger diameter at the bottom of the bob 1 am enabled to compress the plug on the line in the way mentioned, and also the parts are not loosened by the act of the fisherman in lifting his line and bob from the water, as whatever resistance there is to the lifting tends to draw the plug, it anything, more closely into its seat, or at least tends to prevent the plug from being drawn out from its seat.

I am aware that a fishing-line float has been made in which a slitted cylindrical tube passing through a slitted oval bob was arranged to have the line held in place by springs inclosed in the bore of the tube, and I am also aware that a float has been made in which there was a seat for a plug at the top end of the bob and a seat for another plug at the bottom of the bob and that the line was inserted into the bob through a slit and into the plugs through other slits, but in this device the plugs are not conical, are only held in by friction, and no provision was made for compressing the plugs or either of them on the line, neither of the plugs being coned, as in my invention, and, furthermore, either of the plugs was liable to escape from its seat when a sharp pull was given to the line. readily moved on the line after the plug has been loosened.

What I claim is 1. A fishing-float comprising in combination a slitted bob,provided with a conical bore, a slitted conical plug arranged to be inserted in the hob, and adapted to compress the line when forced into the bore of the bob, substantially as described.

2. A fishing-float comprising in combination a bob with a conical bore therethrough, and a slit opening through the walls to the In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. DICKINSON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BURTON, JOHN N. GOODRIOH.