US831831A - Artificial bait. - Google Patents

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PATENTED SEPT. 25

H. G. GLIPPINGER.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

APPLICATION FILED P214, 1905. RENEWED JULY 9, 190a.

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HARRY O. CLIPPINGER, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO MARK E. METZGE AND DANIEL W. BROWN, OF AKRON, OHIO.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

To all whom it may concern;

'. Be it known that I, HARRY C. CLIPPINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Artificial Bait, of which the folowing is a specification.

The invention relates to an artificial minnow used as a bait'for catching fish by suspending it in a current of water or drawing it through the same on the end of a line; and the objects of the improvement are, first, to

rovide means for oscillating the tail or a fin aterally, so the minnow will meander or wiggle through the water in simulation of the movements of a natural minnow, and especially to apply the means in such a manner as will permit the use of reversely-rotating spinners at both ends of the minnow and wil render unnecessary the use of weights or other special appliances for preventing a rotation of the body or a twisting of the draftline, and, second, to provide an elastic support for the hooks on the sides of the minnow.

It has been customary to oscillate the tail of an artificial minnow by means of a rotatable axial shaft or rod actuated by a screwwheel or s inner located at the forward end of the b0 y, to the end of which rod the draft-line is usually attached by a swivel. The turning of such a rod in its bearings tends to rotate the body of the minnow, and the friction of the swivel tends to twist the draft-line, so that with a rotatable shaft it is practically necessary to provide special means for preventing the rotation or twisting of the body and the line. Furthermore, the hooks, which are usually attached on the sides of the minnow by-a loo connection, are apt to become tangled wit each other or otherwise caught in an improper position. These difficulties are overcome and the objects named above are attained by' the construction, mechanism, and arrangement illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the minnow, showing part of the rear end in section; Fig. 2, a plan view of the minnow, showing how the tail is oscillated; Fig. 3, a detached perspect've view of the axial rod, showing the rear s inner thereon located slightly forward from its rear end bearing; Fig. 4, a detached oscillated on its perspective view of the tail; and Fig. 5, a side elevation of the rear part of a minnow, showin the device adapted to oscillate a fin.

Simi ar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

The rearward-projecting axial shaft or rod 1 is securely attached to the rear end of the bod 2 of the minnow, and this rod may exten through the body and project forward from its front end, and the idle spinner 3 may be swiveled on such forward projection and. the draft-line 4 attached thereto; but these features are not part of the present invention.

The rear or operating screw-wheel or spinher 5 is swiveled on the axial rod at the rear end of the body, preferably by means of the sleeve or hub 6. A suitable stop, as the annular flange 7, is provided on the rod to form a rear end bearing for the spinner, and a cam, preferably the eccentric ring 8, is formed or attached on the hub of the spinner.

The tail 9 is attached to the rod on the pivot 10, which is preferably perpendicular to the rod, and the lateral arms 11 are provided on the tail, which arms extend on each side of the eccentric ring adjacent to, or it may be abutting against, its opposite peripheral edges, so that when the ring is rotated by the turning of the spinner the tail is ivot.

If it is desire to adapt the device to the fin 12, as shown in Fig. 5, the eccentric ring 8 is located on the forward end of the hub 6, and the fin is attached directly to the body on the pivot 10 and is provided with the lateral arms 11*, which are extended and curved to straddle the ring, so that the fin is operated in the same manner as described for the tail, and with this arrangement a set of hooks 13 can be attached on the rear end of the rod.

The belly of the minnow is usually ballasted or wei hted so that it will normally stand right si e up, and by arranging the two spinners to rotate in opposite (1111301310118,

which is the practice when forward and rear spinners are used, the tendency of one spinner to turn the body from its normal position is overcome-by the reverse tendency of the other.

The usual hooks 13 are attached on opposite sides of the minnow by the loop connections 14. The transverse. apertures 15 are pro- 5 v 1 thereof, a spinner wit a cam swiveled on the vided through the minnow-body a short distance back 'Of the loops, and the elastic links 16 are located in the-apertures and fastened to the shanks of the hooks on each side.

Ordinary rubber bands may be used for these links, in which case the ends of the bands are merely looped over the shanks of the hooks. These elastic links emit a limited movement of the hooks, ut hold them in proper position against the sides of the minnow as against anyordinary resistance.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

N 1. Anartificial minnow comprising a body, an axial rod securel attached on the endrod, and a tail pivoted on the rod and having lateral arms arranged to straddlethe cam.

2. In an artificial minnow, a body, hooks connected by loops to opposite sides thereof, 20 there being a transverse aperture in the body back of the loops, and an elastic band in the a erture attac ed to the respective hooks anks.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 25 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY C. CLIPPINGER.

Witnesses: I

Jos. J. HosLER, HARRY FREAsE.

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