Fishing line storage reel
OwnerRoy K. Pindellinventor
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Abstract
A fishing line storage reel for allowing fishing line to be selectively played out and reeled in. A stator having a cylindrical body portion is fixedly attached to the butt end of a fishing pole. A rotor is rotatably and slidably mounted on the body portion of the stator. A quantity of fishing line is wrapped around the rotor. A lug protrudes outwardly from the body portion of the stator and coacts with a slot in the rotor to prevent the rotor from rotating when the rotor is in a first position and to allow the rotor to rotate when it is slid to a second position. A retainer is provided to selectively hold the rotor in the first position.
Claims6
A storage reel for attachment to a fishing pole to store a quanity of fishing line and to allow the fishing line to be selectively played out and reeled in, said storage reel comprising:
- (a) a stator member for being fixedly attached to the butt end of the fishing pole, said stator member including a cylindrical body portion;
- (b) a lug member attached to and protruding outwardly from said body portion of said stator member;
- (c) rotor means for holding a quanity of fishing line and for being rotatably and slidably mounted on said body portion of said stator member, said rotor means having a slot therein for selectively receiving said lug member, said rotor means being slidable between a first position with said lub member received within said slot to prevent rotation of said rotor means and a second position with said lug member not received in said slot to allow rotation of said rotor means, said rotor means including a pair of peripheral grooves thereabout;
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- (d) retainer means for selectively holding said rotor means in said first position, said retainer means including a body member for being attached to said stator member, said body member of said retainer means including a heel portion for engaging one of said pair of peripheral grooves of said rotor means when said rotor means is in said first position to selectively hold said rotor means in said first position and for engaging the other of said pair of peripheral grooves of said rotor means when said rotor means is in said second position to selectively hold said rotor means in said second position.
A storage reel for attachment to a fishing pole to store a quanity of fishing line and to allow the fishing line to be selectively played out and reeled in, said storage reel comprising:
- (a) a stator member having a cavity therein for fixedly receiving the butt end of the fishing pole and including a cylindrical body portion;
- (b) a pin member extending transversely through said body portion of said stator member, said pin member being greater in length than the cross-sectional diameter of said body portion of said stator member, each end of said pin member protruding from said body portion to define a pair of opposed lug portions;
- (c) a spool member for holding a quantity of fishing line, said spool member having an aperture therethrough for allowing said body portion of said stator member to extend therethrough and to rotatably mount said spool member on said stator member;
- (d) a rotor member having an aperture therethrough for allowing said body portion of said stator member to extend therethrough and to rotatably and slidably mount said rotor member on said stator member, said rotor member having a transverse slot in one end thereof for selectively receiving said lug portions, said rotor member being slidably between a first position with said lug portions received within said slot to prevent rotation of said rotor member and a second position with said lug portions not received in said slot to allow rotation of said rotor member;
- (e) a pair of pin members extending between said spool member and said rotor member to prevent said spool member from rotating when said rotor member is in said first position;
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- (f) retainer means for selectively holding said rotor member in said first position, said retainer means having an aperture therethrough for guiding fishing line from said spool member to the fishing pole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.