US 4,905,400 AGranted

Contoured spinning rod and handle assembly

OwnerJohn E. Brackett, Larry J. Dahlberg +1inventors

InventorsJohn E. Brackett, Larry J. Dahlberg, Steven W. Vogts

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Abstract

A contoured reel seat segment for a spinning type fishing rod which is formed to comfortably fit against the fisherman's hand grip thumb and finger positions where they grasp the reel seat segment forward of the spinning reel's main attachment stem. Force resistant inclined surfaces are formed on the reel crank side of the reel seat segment and on the bottom of the reel seat segment to advantageously increase the surface contact from the user's thumb and fingers to the reel seat segment of the spinning rod handle. The force resistant inclined surfaces can be concave surfaces, can be formed on a portion of the reel seat segment which protrudes laterally and outwardly towards the reel's crank, and can also be in the form of angularly disposed concave indents for the user's thumb and large finger. The force resistant inclined surfaces provide mechanical advantage for the user's thumb and fingers to resist and engage upward and downward rod forces which exert on a spinning rod reel seat in the act of fishing.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A spinning rod and handle assembly comprising:

a reel seat segment on said handle having a reel seat thereon;
an elongated handle secured to said rod shaft, said handle having a palming grip side on the side thereof opposite the side on which the crank of a spinning reel mounted on said reel seat will be located;
and
a buttgrip segment on the rear end of said handle;
and
an upward force-resistant inclined surface extending along the top of at least a portion of said palming grip side of said handle on said buttgrip, said inclined surface sloping downwardly and outwardly towards said palming grip side of said handle on said buttgrip, whereby a relatively large part of the user's palm may be positioned on top of said inclined surface to effectively resist leveraged upward rod forces acting on said handle and said buttgrip;
and
said reel seat segment on said handle having a cranking side thereof on which the crank of a reel mounted on said reel seat segment will be located;
and
an upward force resistant inclined surface extending along the top of at least a portion of said cranking side of said reel seat segment, said inclined surface sloping downwardly and outwardly towards said cranking side of said reel seat segment, whereby a relatively large part of the user's thumb may be positioned on top of said inclined surface to effectively resist leveraged upward rod forces acting on said reel seat segment of said handle when the thumb grips said reel seat segment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.