Abu Garcia Produktion Ab

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Abu Ab

Bengt-Ake Henriksson

Borje S Moosberg

Arne Johansson

Karl L Carlsson

An open-face fishing reel of the fixed-spool type comprises a housing, a spindle element non-rotatably arranged in the housing, a handle for rotating a drive shaft, mounted in the housing, and a rotor which is rotatable by rotation of the drive shaft. A hollow line spool shaft is non-rotatably arranged on a sleeve-shaped front member of the spindle element and rotatably supports a line spool. An oscillating mechanism is arranged to impart an axial oscillating motion to the line spool as the rotor rotates. The oscillating mechanism comprises an endless screw which is rotatably mounted in the sleeve-shaped front spindle member. A gear wheel non-rotatably connected to the endless screw meshes, via a recess in the front spindle member, with a toothed element non-rotatably connected to the rotor, thereby rotating the screw as the rotor rotates. A groove-follower pin connected to the line spool shaft engages, via a longitudinal slit in the front spindle member, with the endless screw so as to move, on rotation thereof, the line spool shaft and thus the line spool back and forth along the front spindle member.

Open-face fishing reel of the fixed-spool type

Fishing reel frame

A fishing reel has a frame and a line spool rotatably mounted therein. The frame has a side plate with a circumferential flange formed with a circumferentially directed slot. A buzzer meachnism is mounted in the fishing reel. The buzzer mechanism has a gear wheel non-rotatably connected to the line spool, a trigger mounted on the circumferential flange, and a U-shaped spring leaf, one leg of which is connected to the trigger. The trigger is displaceable along the slot in the circumferential flange between a first position, in which it maintains the other leg of the spring leaf in engagement with the gear wheel so as to produce a buzzing sound when the line spool rotates, and a second position, in which it maintains the other leg of the leaf spring out of engagement with the gear wheel.

Buzzer mechanism in a fishing reel

A line-protecting element for use in a fishing reel having a line spool with at least one circular end wall, and a component with a circular-cylindrical surface enclosing the end wall at a radial distance therefrom, is to be mounted on the end wall to bridge the distance between this wall and the enclosing surface in order, when using the fishing reel, to prevent a line wound on the line spool from being wedged between the end wall and the enclosing surface. The line-protecting element consists of a ring of low-friction material having substantially radially projecting tongues distributed along the circumference of the ring. The tongues are so dimensioned as to be easily flexible in the circumferential direction of the ring, but rigid in its axial direction. The outer radius of the ring is smaller than the radius of the enclosing surface, whereas the radius at the free ends of the tongues is greater than the radius of the enclosing surface.

Line-protecting element for use in a fishing reel

Thumbrest for mounting on a fishing reel

An oscillating mechanism in a fixed-spool fishing reel of the closed-face type has a supporting plate mounted in the frame of the fishing reel. The reel has a handle whose shaft extends through the supporting plate. A first gear is nonrotatably connected to the shaft of the handle. A second gear is supported by the supporting plate and meshes with the first gear. The second gear has a smaller diameter than the first gear and carries an eccentric pin. A slide is connected to the line spool of the fishing reel for oscillating the line spool when the handle is turned. The slide has an elongate recess in which the eccentric pin engages for oscillating the slide and, hence, the line spool when the handle is turned. The slide further has a guide slot in which the shaft of the handle engages as a guide pin.

Oscillating mechanism in a fixed-spool fishing reel of the closed-face

An open-face fishing reel of the fixed-spool type has a housing and a spindle rotatably and axially displaceably mounted therein. A line spool is non-rotatably connected to the spindle and axially fixed to one end thereof. A drive shaft is mounted in the housing and extends at right angles to the spindle. A handle is arranged for rotating the drive shaft and a driving gear non-rotatably mounted thereon. A driver element is axially fixed on the spindle. An oscillating gear meshes with the driving gear and has an eccentric pin engaging the driver element in order, upon rotation of the drive shaft, to move the spindle back and forth in its longitudinal direction and, thus, oscillate the line spool about a center of oscillation. A shifting plate supporting a bearing pin for the oscillating gear is pivotable about the axis of the drive shaft in order to shift the bearing pin and, thus, displace the center of oscillation of the line spool to a suitable position, depending on the diameter of the fishing line used, in the longitudinal direction of the spindle.

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Svangsta, Sweden

Bengt-Ake Henriksson