Ferrule joint
OwnerGary A. Loomisinventor
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Abstract
A ferrule joint for a fishing rod blank made from joining plural flexible tapered resin shafts having hollow cores disclosed. The ferrule joint comprises a ferrule integral with one end of a first shaft. The ferrule has a tapered bore extending inwardly from the end of the first shaft. The hollow core end of a second shaft is insertable into the bore to frictionally interlock the shafts together. A transition section integral with the first shaft has a tapered bore joining the tapered bore in the ferrule to the hollow core of the first shaft. The tapered bore in the ferrule and the tapered bore in the transition sections are formed from plural overlapping patterns of fiber reinforced resins superimposed on the first shaft around the hollow core.
Claims13
A ferrule joint for a fishing rod blank made from joining plural flexible tapered resin shafts having hollow cores, said ferrule joint comprising a ferrule integral with the end of a first shaft and having a tapered bore extending inwardly from the end of the first shaft, with the hollow core of a second shaft being insertable into the tapered bore to frictionally interlock the shafts;
- a transition section integral with the first shaft having a tapered bore therein joining the tapered bore in the ferrule to the hollow core of the first shaft with the tapered bore in the ferrule and the tapered bore in the transition section being formed from plural overlapping patterns of fiber reinforced resin superimposed on the first shaft around the hollow core.
A ferrule joint for a fishing rod blank made from joining plural, flexible, tapered, resin shafts having hollow cores, said ferrule joint comprising:
- a ferrule integral with the end of a first shaft and having a tapered bore tapering inwardly from the end of the first shaft, with the hollow core of a second shaft being insertable into the tapered bore to frictionally interlock the shafts;
- transition means integral with the first shaft for joining the tapered bore in the ferrule to the hollow core of the first shaft;
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- wherein the tapered bore in the ferrule beam formed from overlapping patterns of fiber reinforced resin superimposed on said transition means and on the first shaft around the hollow core.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.