Method for connection of bell tube to distal end of internal fishline type fishing rod

Abstract

A method for connection of a bell tube to a distal end of an internal fishline type fishing rod. The bell tube and the distal pipe member of the fishing rod are integrated into a single body during production of the distal pipe member, thus to increase the connection force between them. The material for the distal pipe member is wound about a pipe production mandrel such that a distal end of the mandrel remains bare. The bare distal end of the mandrel is inserted into the small diameter section of the bell tube having at least one annular groove thereabout such that ends of both the bell tube and the pipe member come into intimate contact with each other about the mandrel. Connection material, the same material as that of the pipe member, is wound about the bell tube and the pipe member simultaneously such that the connection material fills the annular grooves of the bell tube.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.