32 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



any suitable process into plain, fluted, orDamental, flexible, or rigid tubes. 

 Tliey may be either wholly or partially filled with a suitable composition 

 or material, or may be left unfilled, thereby allowing of their sliding, one 

 over the other, like a telescope. No drawing. 



No. 3528 of 1868. — Britten. — Instead of wood, for those parts which 

 are required to be pliant, makes use of steel or other suitable metal that 

 ■will secure the requisite strength with lightness and elasticity. These 

 parts are formed into tubes, which are tempered in the usual way. The 

 ring -fittings for guiding the line are on little bands of spring metal, 

 which go round the rod and clip it, and are movable along the rod. The 

 whole rod complete can be inclosed in the lower joint by a cap and fer- 

 rule. The several lengths of rod are connected by short pieces of thin 

 tubular metal soldered to the ends inside the larger and outside the 

 smaller following lengths, and are made slightly conical in opposite di- 

 rections to fit tightly when drawn out. No drawing. 



No. 1648 of 1874. — Moultray. — In the socket, covered vnth. brass, 

 there is made an incision sufiiciently large to receive a spring. By means 

 of two metal pins driven into the wood and covered by brass, the metal 

 spring is fastened. The upper end of the spring is bent upward and placed 

 in the incision at its upper end, so that by coming in contact with the brass 

 covering of the socket it may be prevented from coming out of the in- 

 cision. In the ferrule which receives the socket and at a place thereon 

 corresponding to the place which the spring will occupy in it when the 

 socket is inserted in the ferrule, an opening is cut to allow the spring to 

 work freely. When the socket is placed in the ferrule the spring holds 

 them fast. No drawing. 



No. 1840 of 1874. — Jack. — Fixes the stem part of each joint to its 

 corresponding socket-piece by forming a very small, short projection, or 

 pin, on the large part of the stem-piece, which, when inserted into its 

 socket-piece, enters a small recess cut in from its outer end and is then 

 to be turned round into a groove cut or embossed into the inner circum- 

 ference of the socket. No drawing. 



No. 1806 of 1876. — Holroyd. — Forms the joint-fitting in the usual 

 way, with the addition to the lower end ferrule of a projecting collar 

 and screwed spigot, both situated at the upper part of such lower end 

 ferrule. Also forms the upper ferrule with an enlarged screwed socket 

 to receive and hold the lower ferrule and its screwed spigot, forming an 

 air and water tight joint when the two are fixed together. Drawing, 

 Plate X. 



No. 1553 of 1877. — Aston. — Takes wood or cane sections, having at 

 each end the usual metallic ferrule, but having a slot, into which is placed 

 a plate of metal pierced at each end, there being a corresponding pier- 

 cing in the ferrules. Into this secures a pin, thereby forming a joint 



