Copal Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ichiro Tabei

Masaru Watanabe

A level winder for double-bearing fishing reel is provided with a spool shaft rotatably arranged on support frames and having a spool gear meshable with a drive gear operable by a handle which is rotatably held by support frames, a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on a traverse cam through which is extended a traverse cam shaft to one end of which is fitted a traverse cam shaft gear which is meshable with the drive gear, and with a level winder guide arm which is mounted on and rotated with the traverse cam guide cylinder connected to a traverse cam shaft bushing and which is shiftable reciprocally in lateral direction. The level winder further includes a device for engaging or disengaging the traverse cam shaft gear with the traverse cam and a device for actuating the traverse cam shaft bushing which is connected to the traverse cam guide cylinder to be rotated, and a pair of line guide arms the lower end of which are arranged through a pair of leaf springs on a base stand to be resiliently held thereby in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms may be shifted laterally in opposite direction to form a letter V when a line guide holder which is holding the pair of line guide arms in parallel between retractable pins disposed on the holder is tilted away from the line guide arms in accordance with the tilting of the traverse cam guide cylinder.

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Ashikaga, Japan

Ichiro Tabei