Fishing reel
AssigneeSVS Engineering LLC
InventorSean Venes
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Abstract
A relatively lighter fishing reel with a spool having an inner annular member with circumferentially spaced indentations or gaps on the outer edge of the periphery which coacts with a spring and pawl assembly to prevent free spinning of the spool during payout and retrieval of the fishing line. The operative coaction of this mechanism and a unidirectional roller clutch bearing for rotationally mounting the spool with a manually adjustable drag assembly act to control the forces and tensions acting during payout of the fishing line in the use of the fly fishing reel.
Claims16
A spool for a fishing reel comprising a central arbor, an outer annular member on said central arbor, and an inner annular member on said central arbor spaced from said outer annular member to define a space on the central arbor, said inner annular member having a peripheral edge and a plurality of spaced circumferential indentions on the peripheral edge of said inner member.
A spool for a fishing reel comprising:
- a. a frame,
- b. a spool having a central arbor rotatably mounted in said frame,
- c. said spool having an outer annual member connected to one end of said central arbor and an inner annular member corrected to the opposite end of said central arbor,
- d. the outer annular member having a first plurality of radially extending ribs and the inner annular member having a second plurality of radially extending ribs,
- e. at least one of said first radially extending ribs and said second radially extending ribs connected to each other and not to said central arbor, and
- f. said spool machined from a block of aluminum whereby the weight of said spool is reduced.
A fishing reel for a fishing rod comprising:
- (a) a frame having means thereon for connecting the fishing reel to the fishing rod,
- (b) a spool member rotatably mounted in the frame for fishing line to be paid out along the fishing rod when the frame is in assembled position on the fishing rod,
- (c) a spring actuated pawl assembly mounted in said frame, and
- (d) said spool member and said spring actuated pawl assembly disposed in said frame for operative association to control and prevent the free payout of fishing line from the spool.
A fishing reel for a fishing rod comprising:
- (a) an L-shaped frame to be connected to the fishing rod, having a horizontal leg and a downwardly extending vertical leg defining a corner section,
- (b) a spring actuated pawl assembly including a pawl mounted in the frame, and said pawl having a shaped face disposed to extend into the corner section,
- (c) a spool member rotatably mounted in the frame for fishing line to be paid out along the fishing rod when the frame is in assembled position on the fishing rod,
- (d) said spool member having an outer annular member and an inner annular member disposed in spaced relation to each other to define a space for said fishing line,
- (e) said inner annular member having a peripheral edge disposed adjacent the corner section when the spool is in assembled position in the frame,
- (f) a plurality of spaced indentations on the peripheral edge of the inner annular member, and
- (g) said plurality of indentations and the shaped face of the spring actuated pawl operatively associated for controlling and preventing the free payout from and retrieval of fishing line by the spool when the spool is rotated in the clockwise and counterclockwise direction.
A fishing reel comprising:
- (a) a frame,
- (b) a spring actuated pawl assembly including a pawl mounted in said frame, and said pawl having a shaped face,
- (c) a drag assembly mounted on said frame having a rotatable spindle extending generally in the transverse centerline of the frame, and means on the drag assembly for exerting an adjustable amount of force during rotation of the spindle,
- (d) a spool having a central arbor for fishing line,
- (e) a unidirectional roller clutch bearing mounted in said central arbor to enable the spool to be rotatably mounted about said spindle, whereby during clockwise rotation of the spool during payout of fishing line, the spool will act to abet the force and tension exerted by the drag assembly on the spindle and on the fishing line being paid out, and
- (f) means on said spool for operative association with the spring actuated pawl assembly for preventing free pay-out of fishing line from the spool and to augment the force and tension exerted by the drag assembly on the spindle and the fishing line being paid out.
The combination in a fishing reel of:
- (a) a drag assembly mounted on said frame having a rotatable spindle extending generally in the transverse center line of the frame, and means on the drag assembly for exerting an adjustable amount of force during rotation of the spindle,
- (b) said spool having a central arbor,
- (c) a unidirectional roller clutch bearing mounted in said central arbor to enable said spool in assembled position in the frame to be rotatably mounted about said spindle, whereby during clockwise rotation of the spool during payout of the fishing line, the spool will act to abet the force and tension exerted by the drag assembly on the spindle and on the fishing line being paid out, and
- (d) said unidirectional roller clutch bearing is inoperative during counterclockwise rotation of the spool.
A releasable locking assembly for detachably connecting the spool on a fishing reel comprising:
- (a) a frame,
- (b) drag assembly means mounted on said frame, having a spindle disposed to extend along the center of said frame,
- (c) said spindle having an annular groove at the outer end,
- (d) a spool rotatably mounted on said spindle, and
- (e) means for detachably connecting the spool in assembled position on the spindle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.