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US 5,211,355 AGranted
Gear support construction for fishing reel
AssigneeShimano Industrial Company Limited
InventorYoshiyuki Furomoto
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Abstract
A gear support construction for a fishing reel. The construction includes a support shaft projectingly mounted on a reel body member, a gear loosely fitted on a leading end of the support shaft and fitted through a roller bearing on a base end of the support shaft, and a wall portion formed on the reel body member for at least partially covering the support shaft. The wall portion has a rim extending along the support shaft close to a side face of the gear.
Claims5
A gear support construction for a fishing reel, said construction comprising:
- a support shaft projectingly mounted on a reel body member forming part of a reel body;
- a gear defining a bore having a first inner diameter portion at which said gear is rotatably fitted on a distal end portion of said support shaft and a second inner diameter portion at which said gear is fitted on a roller bearing which is in turn fitted on a base end portion of said support shaft;
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- a wall portion formed on said reel body member at least partially surrounding said support shaft, said wall portion having a rim at a distal end thereof, said rim having an outer diameter which is smaller than a diameter of a circle defined by the bases of the teeth of said gear, said wall portion projecting along a longitudinal axis of said support shaft such that said rim is positioned close to and faces a face of said gear adjacent said reel body member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.