Spinning reel
AssigneeHaibao Fishing Tackle Co., Ltd.
InventorWen-Hsiang Lee
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Abstract
A spinning reel includes a reel body, a crank mounted to the reel body, a main shaft, a tubular worm, a rotor, a spool unit, a rotary shaft, a slider block, a cam mechanism, and a guiding unit. The cam mechanism is disposed between the rotary shaft and the slider block to provide a camming action for translating rotation of the rotary shaft into linear reciprocating motion of the slider block relative to the rotary shaft. A guiding sleeve of the guiding unit is disposed between the rotary shaft and the slider block to guide and stabilize the linear reciprocating motion of the slider block.
Claims9
A spinning reel for fishing, comprising:
- a reel body;
- a crank mounted rotatably on an outer surface of said reel body;
- a main shaft disposed inside said reel body, and coupled to be driven by said crank to rotate about a first axis;
- a tubular worm coupled to be driven by said main shaft to rotate about a second axis;
- a rotor coupled to rotate with said tubular worm about the second axis;
- a spool unit including a spool member and a spool rod which extends along the second axis through said tubular worm to terminate at a first rod end and a second rod end, said second rod end being coupled to permit said spool member to move with said spool rod;
- a rotary shaft coupled to be driven by said tubular worm to rotate about a third axis which is parallel to and offset from the second axis;
- a slider block including
- a first slider segment coupled to said first rod end to permit said spool unit to move with said slider block along the second axis, and
- a second slider segment having an inner peripheral surface which defines a through bore that extends along the third axis for passage of said rotary shaft;
- a cam mechanism including a cam groove which is formed in an outer peripheral surface of said rotary shaft, and a cam follower which is disposed in said through bore to engage said cam groove to provide a camming action such that when said rotary shaft is driven to rotate, by virtue of the camming action, said second slider segment is permitted to linearly reciprocate relative to said rotary shaft along the third axis, to thereby allow said first slider segment and said spool unit to linearly reciprocate relative to said rotor along the second axis;
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- a guiding unit including a guiding sleeve which is disposed between said rotary shaft and said second slider segment of said slider block, and which is coupled to said second slider segment to move with said slider block and to prevent said second slider segment from rotating with said rotary shaft so as to guide and stabilize linear reciprocating motion of said slider block relative to the rotary shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.