US734703A - Spoon-bait. - Google Patents

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No. 134,703. PATENTED JULY 28, 1903.

J. R. HARLOW.

SPOON BAIT.

'APPLIUATIOK FILED NOV. 10, 1902.

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Patented July 28, 1903.

JOHN R. HARLOW, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK.

SPOON-BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 734,703, dated July 28, 1903.

Application filed November 10, 1902. Serial No. 130,714. (No modelil To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JOHN R. HARLOW, of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Spoon-Bait, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description. g

This invention relates to improvements in spoon-baits, and refers more particularly to the means for attaching the hook to the spoon.

The objects of these improvements are, first, to reduce the cost of assembling and finishing the parts, and, second, to afford a more permanent and reliable connection between the hook and spoon;

In the manufacture of spoon-baits of the class described the usual practice is to solder the shank of the hook to the spoon, and it therefore becomes necessary to heat the metal to such a degree as to materially weaken it at its junction with the hook, where the strain is usually the greatest. Furthermore, this method of soldering the parts-necessitates the careful working of the solderin' the jointand then blending or smoothing the solder with the contiguous surfaces of the spoon preparatory to plating and burnishing, and it is evident that when the hook is thus secured to the spoon before finalfinishing or burnishing this final operation becomes difficult and requires careful manipulation to prevent the point of the hook from being caught in the buffer-wheel or fingers of the operator.

taken respectively on lines 2 2 and 3 3, Fig. 1, Fig. 3 being enlarged. Fig, i is a face view of the detached spoon.

My invention is designed to obviate the use 2, and a swivel-head 3. The spoon 1 may be of any desired form or size, being usually formed of thin sheet metal of concave-convex lengthwise and transverse section, and

'is provided with opposite end and intermediate apertures 4, 5, and 6, the endhaving the aperture 4: being regarded as the head of the spoon and receives'the swivel 3, which is linked in the aperture 4, while the opposite end, having the aperture 5, may be designated as the trailing or hook end of the spoon to receive the shank of the hook. The intermediate aperture 6 preferably extends through the central body of the spoon and preferably in direct line between apertures 4 and 5, which line forms practically the lengthwise axis or line of draft of the spoon and hook. The aperture 5 is formed in the upturned trailing end of the spoon and is therefore substantially parallel and coincident with the length wise axis and receives the shank of the hook and holds the same from lateral displacement. The hook 2 may also be of any desired size proportionate to the size of the spoon and is inserted through the aperture 5, with the hook projecting beyond the trailing end of the spoon and its shank extending inwardly along and upon the inner or concave face of said spoon and provided with an aperture or eye 7, registered with the intermediate aperture 6. The means for securing the inner end of the hook in position preferably consists of a hollow stud 8, which is passed through the aperture 6 and eye 7 and expanded or riveted at its opposite ends to lock the parts firmly together. It is sometimes desirable to remove the hook from the spoon and substitute another of different size or form or to substitute a new hook for one that has become bent or broken, and I therefore have shown the inner end of the stud 8 as screw-threaded to receive a threaded head or nut 9, the opposite end of said stud being expanded or upset to form a head 10, engaged with the convex face of-the spoon, while the walls of the eye 7' are impinged between the head or nut 9 and adjacent face of the spoon. After the nut is I properly adjusted the inner end of the stud is slightly expanded to firmly hold the parts in operative position without liability of becoming displaced while in use.

In the manufacture of my improved spoonbait the spoon is first pressed or stamped to the desired form, the apertures 4, 5, and 6 being formed by the same or by one or more subsequent operations, and the whole spoon is then plated, burnished, and finally finished before the hook is attached thereto. After this operation the hook is passed through the aperture 5, as shown in the drawings, and the eye 7 is registered with the aperture 6, whereupon the hollow stud 8 is inserted in position and secured in the manner described, and after attaching the swivel-head 3 the device is ready for use.

It is evident from the foregoing description that the main features of this invention con-, sist in inserting the shank of the hook'through an aperture in one end of the spoon and in spoon and hook together.

2. In a spoon-bait, a spoon having an aperture, a hook seated on the spoon, and a stud passed through the aperture and engaged with the hook to lock the parts together.

3. In a spoon-bait, a spoon, a hook seated on the spoon and provided with an eye, and

a stud passed through the eye and engaged with the spoon to lock the parts together.

4. A spoon-bait comprising a spoon and hook each having an aperture, and a threaded stud passed through the apertures and provided with a nut for locking the parts together.

5. In combination with a spoon having an opening in one end, a hook having its shank inserted in the aperture, and a threaded stud and nut securing the inner end of the shank to the spoon.

6. A spoon-bait comprising a spoon having end and intermediate apertures, a hook inserted in the end aperture and provided with an eye registered with the intermediate aperture, and means passed through the intermediate aperture and eye to lock the parts together.

7. A spoon-bait comprisingaspoon having an aperture, a hook having its shank seated in the aperture and provided with an eye, and means passed through the aperture and secured to the spoon to hold the spoon and hook in fixed relation to each other.

8. A spoon-bait comprisinga spoon having a central aperture, a hook having an eye at one end of its shank, and a tubular stud passed through the aperture and eye and expanded to hold the parts in fixed relation to each other.

9. In a spoon-bait, the combination of a spoon having a pair of apertures one in ad- I.

Vance of the other, a hook: having its shank inserted in one of the apertures and provided with an eye alined with the other aperture,

and means passed through the eye and aper ture alined therewith for securing the spoon and hook together.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of August, 1902.

JOHN R. HARLOW.

Witnesses:

ADELBERT M. GILLETTE, E. H. WELLNER.

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