Reel leg fixing apparatus, method of fabricating the reel leg fixing apparatus, and method of fabricating hood portion of the reel leg fixing apparatus

A method of fabricating a hood portion of a reel leg fixing apparatus, the hood portion having a tubular shape and having an opening for receiving a reel leg of a fishing reel, and the hood portion being formed of a plurality of prepreg sheets stacked together and configured to be moved in an axial direction by an operation nut, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a prepreg sheet including reinforcement fibers oriented in an axial direction and arranged symmetrically;
• providing a mandrel including a cylindrical portion and a protrusion having a slope gradually rising forward from a circumferential part of an end of the cylindrical portion, so as to conform to a shape of the hood portion;
• and
• rolling the prepreg sheet on both left and right sides of the outer circumference of the mandrel positioned in a symmetry axis of the prepreg sheet, so as to form;
• in the protrusion of the mandrel, a symmetrical region where the reinforcement fibers oriented in the axial direction are oblique to the axial direction.

A reel leg fixing apparatus, comprising:

• a hood portion having a tubular shape and having an opening for receiving a reel leg of a fishing reel,
• wherein the hood portion is formed of a fiber reinforced resin material, and
• wherein the hood portion has an oblique end extending from an opening region through which the reel leg is to be inserted, to an opposite region along surfaces of both sides so as to be oblique with respect to an axial direction, and
• the fiber reinforced resin material includes an oblique fiber layer including reinforcement fibers oriented along the oblique end.