Flexible hollow fishing rod
AssigneeShakespeare Company
InventorsJames Monroe Lindler, Michael Taras Romanyszyn, Jr.
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Abstract
A flexible hollow fishing rod shaft of improved strength to weight ratio with respect to both bending and crushing strength, having an outer layer of longitudinally extending fiber glass filaments bonded together with a flexible plastic resin, and an inner layer of graphite filaments wound in a tight helix and impregnated with a plastic resin bonding agent.
Claims5
A flexible hollow fishing rod shaft of circular cross section having only two layers, an outer layer comprising at least longitudinally extending fiber glass filaments bonded together with a flexible plastic resin, and an inner layer of graphite filaments wound in a tight helix and impregnated with a flexible plastic resin, the radial thickness of the fiber glass layer being approximately seven to eleven times the thickness of the graphite layer.
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