Layered sheet metal fish hook
OwnerVincent P. Battagliainventor
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Abstract
A one-piece sheet metal fish hook comprises a member which derives much of its strength from the unique formations of the sheet metal stock. The member has a shank portion, a bill portion connected to one end of the shank portion, and an eye portion connected to the other end of the shank portion. The metal is formed to provide layers or laminations which shape the eye portion, such layers having one set of corresponding edges that are joined by a tight fold. The shank and bill portions are partly of channel cross section and partly of layered or laminated cross section, the latter having corresponding edges which are integrally joined to each other by a tight fold of the metal. The various formations provide for different degrees of strength and rigidity, at desired places.
Claims12
A fish hook comprising, in combination:
- a) a formed sheet metal member having generally the configuration of a hook,
- b) said member comprising a shank portion, a bill portion connected to one end of the shank portion, and an eye portion connected to the other end of the shank portion,
- c) said eye portion being constituted of inner and outer layers of said sheet metal, said layers each having two opposite expansive surfaces with the outer layer having its two opposite expansive surfaces disposed one concentrically inside of the other and said outer layer being wrapped around the inner layer so as to be concentric therewith, the inner expansive surface of the outer layer being in contact with the outer expansive surface of the inner layer,
- d) said sheet metal layers being integral with each other and being joined together by a tight fold along one pair of corresponding edges thereof.
A fish hook comprising, in combination:
- a) a formed sheet metal member having generally the configuration of a hook,
- b) said member comprising a shank portion, a bill portion connected to one end of the shank portion, and an eye portion connected to the other end of the shank portion,
- c) said shank, bill and eye portions being respectively tightly folded over and integral with each other, and
- d) said folded-over eye portion being of inner and outer sheet metal layers of tightly layered cross section, said sheet metal layers thereof being integral with each other, said layers each having two opposite expansive surfaces with the outer layer having its two expansive surfaces disposed concentrically one inside of the other and said outer layer being tightly wrapped around the inner layer so as to be concentric therewith, the inner expansive surface of the outer layer being in contact with the outer expansive surface of the inner layer.
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