US 5,120,003 AGranted

Changeable fishing reel cartridge with line

OwnerRoberto L. Sacconiinventor

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Abstract

A fishing reel and changeable cartridge spool that is especially useable with a fly fishing reel or a spinning reel which allows cartridges containing fishing lines of different weights and densities to be quickly and readily interchanged onto the spool of a single reel. The improved reel spool includes a system that permits attachment of a first and a second cartridge spool filled with a line. The removable cartridge spool is mounted on the first spool which includes a threaded end face that is threadably connected to the spool axle and spool end face. The device employs one spool, which can be threadably separated and a cartridge spool which contains the line and which fits over the first spool axle and includes a locking detent so that the first and cartridge spools are in effect locked together. The first spool fits on the conventional reel shaft. The reel housing and the drag and winding mechanisms are not changed.

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Dependent claims

A fishing reel that provides for an interchangeable line bearing cartridge spool comprising:

a housing, said housing including a flat wall, said housing having a rigid first spool receiving shaft affixed thereto and protruding away from said wall;
a cartridge spool;
first spool means for mounting said cartridge spool, said first spool means comprising a first end plate, a first spool axle attached rigidly to said first end plate, a second end plate, and means for connecting said second end plate to said first spool axle, said first spool axle having a hollow aperture which is fitted over said first spool receiving shaft;
means attached to said first spool means for manually rotating said first spool means;
said cartridge spool comprising two end plates and a central cartridge spool axle unitarily connected therebetween, said cartridge spool axle being fitted over and mounted upon said first spool axle, said cartridge spool carrying a supply of fishing line, whereby said cartridge spool can be installed on or removed from said first spool.

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