Casting rod and method of fabricating tip rod of casting rod
AssigneeGloberide, Inc.
InventorsYoshinori Nakahata, Takuji Kawamura, Takashi Watanabe
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Abstract
One object is to provide a casting rod wherein a tip rod vibrates for a long period of time upon a fish bite. In accordance with one aspect, the casting rod of the present invention includes a tip rod formed of a fiber reinforced resin material into a tubular shape; and a distal end region of the tip rod is provided with a high specific gravity member having a specific gravity three to six times as high as a material constituting the tip rod.
Claims10
A casting rod including a tip rod formed of a fiber reinforced resin material into a tube-like shape, wherein a distal end region of the tip rod includes a high specific gravity material having a specific gravity three to six times as high as a specific gravity of a material constituting the tip rod.
The method of fabricating a tip rod of a casting rod, comprising the steps of:
- fitting a metal tube around a small diameter portion at a distal end of a mandrel having a circular section;
- rolling, on a mandrel having the tube fitted therearound, a plurality of prepreg sheets having a lower specific gravity than the tube;
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- heating the mandrel having the prepreg sheets rolled thereon to harden a synthetic resin in the prepreg sheets and then pulling out the mandrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.