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US 5,159,776 AGranted
Breech guide
OwnerDwayne Horton, James C. Welborn, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
A breech guide is provided for directing fishing line from a reel through the shaft of a fishing rod, exiting the rod tip through a rod tip eyelet. The breech guide is mounted to the rod through a breech guide receptacle incorporated into the rod blank.
Claims4
An eyelet, by means attached to a fishing rod tip where a fishing line passes through a rod shaft and exits through eyelet comprising:
- a cylindrical, T-shaped housing with a smaller diameter neck and a larger diameter rim, said housing defining a cylindrical bore, an entrance port and an exit port, and said bore traversing said T-shaped housing in a vertical fashion and in communication with said entrance port and said exit port;
- said neck being of a diameter smaller than that of said shaft so that said neck fits into said shaft thereby decreasing the diameter of said shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.