Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Spool or core
Patent
1985-03-11
1987-01-06
Taylor, Billy S.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Spool or core
43 21, 242 841M, 250560, 250561, A01K 89012
Patent
active
046340726
ABSTRACT:
A fishing reel having a drive motor, gearing, stationary spool for the fishing line and a flanged winding cup provided with a guide for a pickup pin extendable through the flange, together with a cam for causing the guide and pickup pin to be extended, includes a spring which moves the winding cup toward the cam and produces sufficient force to maintain the guide on the cam against a surge of a fish when the pickup pin is extended to use the gearing and unactuated drive motor as a brake. An optical fiber, terminating adjacent the winding cup flange, transmits an impression of the line moving in front of its end around the winding flange during casting or the pickup pin similarly moving, to a translation device which converts the number of rotations into feet, meters, or the like. Such movement is correlated with the amount of line moved onto or off the spool to compensate for differing diameters of a line loop so wound or unwound. A series of solar cells are mounted on the top of the reel housing or form a portion thereof for producing current to charge the batteries, through a diode which permits flow of current one way only. A variable resistance switch for starting the motor not only regulates the speed and power of the motor for playing a fish but also facilitates causing the motor to turn very slightly in order to cause the pickup guide to climb the cam when, after casting, the resistance of the unactuated motor and gearing to movement of the line is to be utilized for braking purposes.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3248819 (1966-05-01), Stealy
patent: 3437282 (1969-04-01), Honkonen et al.
patent: 4376350 (1983-03-01), Bednarz et al.
patent: 4515479 (1985-05-01), Pryor
The Washington Times Magazine, "Anglers Use High Tech for Fishing", p. 3M, Oct. 15, 1984.
Taylor Billy S.
Van Valkenburgh Horace B.
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