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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM LOCKHART LUBBOCK, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-I[ALF
TO R. IH. CONNERLY AND F. T. CONNERLY, OF SAME PLACE.
FISHING-FLOAT.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,078, dated November 29, 1898.
Application filed April 22, 1898. Serial No. 678,498. (No model)To all whom it 72ay concern.
Be it known that I, WILLIAM LOCKHART
LUBBOCK, residing at Austin, in the county
of Travis and State of Texas, have invented
5 a new and Improved Fishing-Float, of which
the following is a specification.
This invention, which relates to improve-
ments in fishing-tackle, has for its object to
provide a novel float line - attaching means
co whereby the float can be conveniently and
quickly attached to any desired position on
the line without disconnecting the line from
the rod or the sinker from the line.
This invention also comprehends a novel
15 attaching means whereby the same can be
quickly detached from one position on the
float in case it becomes loose by ordinary
wear and quickly and securely attached to
another point on the float without the use of
2o bands, wrapping, or other attaching means
for holding it to its set position.
This invention consists in the novel fea-
tures and combination of parts first described
in detail and then specifically pointed out in
25 the appended claims, reference being had to
the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a view illustrating my inven-
tion and its manner of use. Fig. 2 is a ver-
tical section of the float, taken through the
3o lines slit and showing the attachments or
guides secured in place. Fig. 3 is a top view
of the float. Fig. 4 illustrates the several
parts constituting my improvements de-
tached, and Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrat-
35 ing the simplest form of my invention.
My improvements relate more particularly
to that class of floats having wire guides fitted
to the opposite ends of the float. Heretofore
the common way of applying such guides has
4o been to insert them either alongside the spin-
dle or stem which passes through the float and
securing them by wrapping their free ends to
the stem or by forming the guides of a single
wire rod passed entirely through the float and
45 provided with straight or spiral eyes at their
ends. The first form of attachment referred
to is open to the objection that in case the
float by constant use slightly rots and the
fastener-eyes become loosened in their con-
50 nection therewith such eyes will slide uponthe stem and can then only be made secure
by a new wrapping, which in time and labor
frequently exceeds in cost the price of the
new float, not to mention the inconvenience
to the user, and in the second form the re- 55
sults are not all that is desired, in that the
fitting of the rod through the float and the
subsequent bending of one or both ends, ren-
ders the making thereof costly, and, further-
more, should the rod wear loose within the 6o
float the same cannot be readily held from
slipping or moving lengthwise therein.
My invention differentiates from the sev-
eral forms of floats specified. First, it pro-
vides for a quick and inexpensive means of 65
providing guides for the float; second, it dis-
penses with wrapping or other exterior means
for making the guides fast to the float- third,
it provides for an instantaneous removal of
the guides from one point of the float in case 70
they become loose by wear and fitting them
to another point to make its connection very
lasting and secure, and, fourth, it provides a
detent for positively holding the line from ac-
cidentally becoming disconnected from the 75
guides in ordinary use.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
in which like numbers indicate like parts in
all the figures, 1 indicates the float,which has
a central or axial aperture and which may be 8o
of any approved shape.
2 indicates the lower guide, and 3 the up-
per guide, which are constructed alike, each
consisting of a spring-wire having a binding-
penetrating end 2a and having their outer 85
ends bent in a horizontal spiral eye 2b, hav-
ing one convolution, the extreme end termi-
nating in an outer head 20, which is held
spring-pressed down against the shoulder 2d,
whereby to form with the said shoulder 21 a 90
suitable guide for entering the line and in it-
self a detent for preventing the line during
the ordinary use of the float, especially in
casting, from slipping out from the eye of the
guide. 95
In the simplest form of my invention the
guides have their shanks provided with spurs
2e, whereby when inserted in the float-body,
as shown in Fig. 5, they will be held from
readily pulling out. I00
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Lubbock, William Lockart. Fishing-Float., patent, November 29, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508869/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.