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US 4,903,427 AGranted
Fishing rod
AssigneeShimano Industrial Company Limited
InventorYoshiro Yamato
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Abstract
A fishing rod comprising a hollow rod body and a grip coupling with the bottom rod at the rod body, the grip being provided with a short first grip portion and a long second grip portion, and with an insertion control positioned between the first and second grip portions and setting the insertion position into the rod body, so that the grip is turned over to be inserted into the rod body to be changed in length, thereby making the fishing rod adjustable of its entire length.
Claims10
A fishing rod, comprising:
- (a) a rod body which is hollow, has a gently tapered conical shape, and has a large diameter bottom portion, said bottom portion comprising a grip insertion portion,
- (b) a grip fitted into said grip insertion portion, said grip having a predetermined axial length which is greater than an axial length of said grip insertion portion and including one lengthwise side having a first grip portion having a first predetermined length and another lengthwise side having a second grip portion having a second predetermined length, said first length being shorter than said second length, said first grip portion and said second grip portion each comprising fitting means enabling said first grip portion and said second grip portion to be alternately and selectively fitted into said grip insertion portion, and an insertion control means disposed between said first grip portion and said second grip portion, said insertion control means for abutting against an end face of said grip insertion portion thereby to set an insertion position at which said grip is fitted into said rod body, and
- (c) fixing means for detachably fixing said grip to said rod body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.