Fishing rod with swiveling line guides

Details Fishing rod with swiveling line guides Fishing rod with swiveling line guides

1995-01-20

1996-10-01

Elpel, J.

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Fishing

Rod

A01K 8704

Patent

active

055601391

ABSTRACT:
A fishing rod has line guides which pivot relative to the rod as tension from the line puts lateral forces on the line guides. The pivoting action of the line guides reduces the necessity to rotate the rod such as to angle the line guides in the general direction of a hooked fish. Each line guide consists of a housing which is secured to the rod and an eyelet which is rotatably connected to the housing. The line guides may use conventional line guides having feet which, instead of mounting to the rod, are each affixed to a rotatable member which rotates within one of the housings. The housings may also be provided with mounting legs like the feet of conventional line guides, thus allowing the housings to be attached to the rod with the same equipment as used with conventional line guides. The eyelet may be supported by one or by two housings. The pivotable connection may be spring-loaded to bias the eyelets toward a particular angular position. The eyelets may also be secured to the rod by feet which reside in slots in the rod which allow the rotation of the line guides relative to the rod as the feet move within the slots.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2324353 (1943-07-01), Berry
patent: 3581427 (1971-06-01), Reinertson
patent: 3641696 (1972-02-01), Fleischer
patent: 3702514 (1972-11-01), Donato
patent: 4070785 (1978-01-01), Hawk
patent: 4445293 (1984-05-01), Ohmura
patent: 5361529 (1994-11-01), Lindler

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