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US 2018/0295825 A1Published application
Snubberless spincast reel
AssigneePure Fishing, Inc.
InventorsCameron Ivie, Wu Lao
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Abstract
A spincast reel having at least one camming control member device that is operably connected to the activation button and the pickup pin camming control member device to control the extension and retraction of the pickup pin during casting, unspooling, and retrieving operations of the reel.
Claims13
A casting system for a spincast reel, the system comprising a frame
- a spool connected to the frame for holding fishing line;
- a central shaft operably connected to a crank handle and configured to rotate around an axis;
- a pickup head operably and rotatably mounted to the central shaft,
- a pickup pin positionable between a first, radially extended position and a second, radially retracted position, where the pickup pin in the first position will engage fishing line to prevent the fishing line from unwinding from the spool when the rotor is not rotating and wind the fishing line onto the spool when the rotor is rotating, and where the pickup pin in the second position allows the fishing line to unwind from the spool;
- a thumb button operatively attached to the frame and linked to the pickup pin by a mechanical system comprising a camming control member that is able to maintain the pickup pin in the first position when the thumb button is pressed forward;
- and allows the pickup pin to move to the second position when the thumb button is released.
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A snubberless spincast reel comprising:
- a. a camming control member device exhibiting a generally annular shape having a forward end (67), a rearward end (69), an overall height (71), and an outside diameter (73), the overall height exhibiting at least three axial portions in which:
- i. a first portion (94) extends axially forward from a rearward end (69) for a first distance (95) that forms a first outer surface (96) of a first diameter (97) that is radially smaller than said outside diameter (73);
- ii. a second portion (98) that is located on an axially transverse shelf surface (99) that is formed by a radial length difference between said first diameter (97) and said outside diameter (73), said second portion exhibiting at least one cam surface (72) that is formed with an angled ramp surface (70) from said first outer surface (96) to said outside diameter (73), and between each said at least one cam surface (72) and said angled ramp surface (70) is formed a shelf portion (68);
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- iii. a third portion (99) that extends from said shelf surface (99) to a forward end (67) thereby forming an outside surface (74) of a diameter;
- b. a first, radially pivotable, pickup armature (52) exhibiting a radially inward protrusion (66) and comprising a radially outwardly extending pickup pin (42);
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- c. a second, radially pivotable, pickup armature (76) exhibiting a second radially inward protrusion (83).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.