Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Strand tensioning device – Tortuous course
Patent
1976-03-29
1978-08-01
Taylor, Billy S.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Strand tensioning device
Tortuous course
242 843, 242106, B65H 7548, A01K 89017
Patent
active
041038436
ABSTRACT:
Improvement in a fishing reel having a spool upon which a fishing line is wound, a cover for the spool, a coil spring for automatically winding up the fishing line upon release thereof, a spring cover for winding up the spring, a gear train for rotating the spool upon unwinding of the spring, the improvement comprising the cover consisting of two spool covers held together with a first set of fasteners disposed radially outwardly of the spool, the spring cover carried on one of the spool covers, an axle extending between the spring cover and the other of the spool covers, the gear train including a compound gear and a driver gear and a pinion gear, the driver gear and the pinion gear rotatably supported on the axle, a second set of fasteners carried on the one spool cover for fastening the spring cover thereon, bosses formed in the one spool cover for threadably carrying the second set of fasteners, a tongue and groove arrangement between the spring cover and the one spool cover disposed inwardly of the second set of fasteners, the spring cover, when loosened during winding of the spring, being held in place and located by the second set of fasteners, by the tongue and groove arrangement and by the axle, the end of the axle disposed in the spring cover serving as a rotation axis for the latter during winding up of the spring, the inner end of the spring held in a slot in the driver gear, an arrangement for fastening the fishing line to the spool consisting of an aperture in the spool, a larger aperture in the other spool cover so that the inner end of the fishing line can be threaded through the reel and knotted to hold it against the outside of the spool, and a line guide arrangement for guiding the movement of the fishing line, the line guide arrangement comprising a line guide member and a tubular spacer carried on one of the fasteners of the first set of fasteners, the line guide arrangement serving as a closed loop line guide opening for said fishing line immediately adjacent the spool.
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Fisher William L.
Taylor Billy S.
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