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being furnished with hasps. Another form is a bobbin or reel with a 

 cover or case at the bottom, and in the interior is a circular shaft, the 

 upper end of which terminates in a button or cork for the hooks, and the 

 line is passed around small projecting knobs on each side of the shaft 

 at the top and bottom. No drawing. 



Ko. 388 of 1873. — Heaton. — Eecesses one of the side disks and places 

 on its axis a pinion facing outward towards the recess and connects the 

 pinion to a hollow axis working through the corresponding i)late for 

 winding the line on, and over the recess. On the outside of the disk 

 applies a plate with a rim around its interior, ha\'ing teeth cut on the 

 inner edge, which gear with an intermediate wheel acting on the j)inion. 

 This outer plate works on an independent axis passing through the axis 

 on which the line is wound and is secured in position by the spreading 

 head of a screw on the other side. A handle is applied to give motion 

 to the plate, and from the teeth on the plate acting on the mtermediate 

 wheel, motion is given to the pinion and winding axis, the multiple of 

 motion being governed by the size of the pinion and intermediate wheel. 

 No drawing. 



No. 3283 of 1876. — Corbet. — AtfacMng reels to rods. — Instead of at- 

 taching the reel to the outer surface of the rod in the ordinary manner^ 

 provides a frame consisting of two side plates and two tubular or hollow 

 ends. Into one of these tubular ends inserts the top part of the rod^ 

 and into the other the lower portion or handle of the rod. No drawing. 



RODS. 



No. 2017 of 1853.— Dawson and Eestell.— The joints are constructed 

 in the shape of a segment of a circle ; that is to say, the cross-section of 

 the joint will represent the segment of a circle, or that of a tube bent 

 into the shape of a trough or gutter. The joints are permanently con- 

 nected, and each joint lies in the joint next preceding it when the rod is 

 inserted in the butt, which is made cylindrical and to resemble a walking- 

 stick. No drawing. 



No. 4G1 of 1857.— John Bennett.— Upon the ends of the rods to be 

 joined rigidly together, attaches a metallic tube or ferrule, the tube on 

 one end being larger than that on the other, so that one of the tubes 

 may enter and slide in the other tube. The larger tube has in its axis 

 a smaller one, so that the tube which enters the larger tube or ferrule 

 slides between two concentric tubes. The two rods are joined together 

 by means of a cylinder of India rubber (which acts as a joint), and the 

 smaller tube or ferrule is provided with a bayonet joint, in which a pin 

 in the larger tube engages. No drawing. 



No. 1553 of 1858. — A. Poreckt. — Strips of whalebone, horn, tortoise- 

 shell, or other corneous matter, or the artificial imitations, are formed by 



