Method of making fishing line control device
AssigneeBrunswick Corporation
InventorsJohn W. Puryear, Arthur D. Callan
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Abstract
This invention comprehends a spin casting style fishing reel that can sit on top a fishing rod or be suspended thereunder. The reel has a line spool with a flange that is positioned inside the spinner head. In order to prevent untensioned fishing line from getting caught underneath the spinner head, a rim on the edge of the flange has a plurality of flocked fibers thereon. The invention also comprehends a method of coating the flange rim with fibers.
Claims12
A method of fiber flocking the rim of a fishing reel spool comprising the steps of:
- (1) providing a fishing reel spool having a flange with a rim wherein the rim is thinner than the flange;
- (2) positioning the spool on a mandrel;
- (3) coating only the rim with an adhesive,
- (4) electrostatically depositing relatively short fibers on the rim;
- (5) dislodging the fibers not adhered to the rim by the adhesive;
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- (6) curing the adhesive.
A method of making a fishing reel spool having fibers extending outwardly from the rim of a spool flange and predominantly generally radially of the spool axis comprising the steps of:
- (1) shaping a spool flange to provide a rim having a width less than the remainder of the flange whereby at least one edge of the rim is set back from the face of the flange;
- (2) coating only said rim with adhesive;
- (3) electrostatically depositing fibers on said rim which are of a length to avoid any fibers extending from said rim edge beyond said face of the flange;
- (4) dislodging the fibers not adhered to the rim by adhesive;
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- (5) curing the adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.