Drag mechanism for fishing reel
AssigneeDaiwa Seiko, Inc.
InventorKyoichi Kaneko
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Abstract
A drag mechanism for a fishing reel, comprising a rotor for applying a tension to a fishing line, rotatably supported on a support shaft of a reel body. A support cylinder is slidably fitted on and supported by the support shaft and braking plates are mounted around the support cylinder for frictionally connecting the rotor to the support cylinder. The braking plates are piled on the support cylinder in a predetermined number and prevented from falling off of the support cylinder. A manipulator for depressing the braking plates is mounted on the support cylinder, and is threadingly engaged with the support shaft. The support cylinder and braking plates comprise an integral unit removably attached onto the support shaft.
Claims19
A drag mechanism for a fishing reel, comprising:
- a rotor rotatably supported on a support shaft of a reel body for receiving tension acting on a fishing line;
- a support cylinder slidably fitted on and supported by said support shaft;
- braking plates mounted along the length of said support cylinder for frictionally connecting said rotor to said support cylinder, said braking plates being piled onto said support cylinder in a predetermined number, and a plurality of stop means for retaining said braking plates on said support cylinder, said stop means are mounted on said support cylinder at opposite ends of said braking plates;
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- a manipulator for actuating said braking plates and being threadingly engaged with said support shaft, wherein said support cylinder, said plurality of stop means and said braking plates comprise an integral unit removably attached to said support shaft.
A drag mechanism for a fishing reel frictionally influencing operation of a handle rotatably supported on a reel body and connected to a spool rotatably supported on the reel body such that said spool is rotated in conjunction with rotation of said handle when tension acting on a fishing line is less than a predetermined frictional force, and said spool is independently rotated with respect to rotation of said handle when the tension acting on the fishing line is more than the predetermined frictional force, thereby allowing the fishing line to be unwound off the spool and preventing the fishing line from breaking, said drag mechanism comprising:
- a shaft projecting from the reel body;
- means for receiving the tension acting on the fishing line, said receiving means including a rotor rotatably and coaxially supported on said shaft;
- a sub unit removably attached to said shaft, including:
- a support cylinder removably fitted on said shaft,
- at least one first braking plate formed with a first hole portion for non-rotatably engaging a peripheral surface of said support cylinder,
- at least one second braking pate formed with a second hole portion for rotatably fitting on the peripheral surface of said support cylinder, and engagement portions on said at least one second braking plate for engaging said rotor, and
- a plurality of stop means for preventing said at least one first braking plate and said at least one second braking plate piled around said support cylinder from falling off from the peripheral surface of said support cylinder, said stop means are mounted on said support cylinder at opposite ends of said piled braking plates;
- means for restrict rotation of said support cylinder relative to rotation of said handle;
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- means for depressing said at least one first braking plate and said at least one second braking plate to cause the predetermined frictional force therebetween, said depressing means being threadingly and adjustably related to said shaft, whereby when the tension acting on the fishing line is more than the predetermined frictional force, said rotor engaged with said at least one second braking plate is independently rotated from said support cylinder engaged with said at least one first braking plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.