Fuji Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Fuji Kogyo K.k.

Ryuichi Ohmura

A reel foot placing seat formed on a top portion of a circumferential surface of a body and a trigger protruding in a direction which is inclined in a backward-downward direction at approximately 30&#xb0;, are provided on the circumferential surface of the body. A length of the portion crossing over a connection portion that connects a lower portion of the body to a front surface of this trigger is such that a user can place two fingers can be placed thereon. The user's two fingers placed thereon are aligned in a direction in which the angle is opened with respect to a direction perpendicular to a center axis X&#x2014;X of a fishing body. Therefore, without a user significantly bending a wrist, a fishing rod can be firmly gripped. Furthermore, palming becomes possible in a position in which the body and the trigger are held by a user placing four fingers in front of the trigger in addition to placing the thumb on a reel. Therefore, there is no particular need for a strong grip in order to prevent rotating of the fishing pole in an axis rotation direction.

Reel seat for fishing rod and fishing rod incorporating the reel seat

For line guides having a frame that includes two rear support legs on its sides, if the inclination of for the rear supporting legs is reduced by lengthening the rear support legs, then the material costs and weight of the frame are increased. Thus, the invention provides a line guide, wherein the length of a rear support leg of a frame for intermediate guides is made longer than the length of a front support leg and a front mounting foot. The front support leg and the front mounting foot are cut and bent out from an area surrounded by the rear support legs. The height of the front support leg is limited to approximately one-fourth (&frac14;) of the outer diameter of a ring holding part. Therefore, due to the low height, it is hard for the line to get tangled, and the accuracy of casting increases. The line is easily released simply by lengthening the rear support leg to reduce the inclination of the rear support legs. The increase in weight of the rear support legs can be canceled by the reduction in weight of the front support leg. In addition, the material cost does not increase, even if the rear support legs are made long since the front support leg and the front mounting foot can be formed using material from an area surrounded by the rear support legs, which is conventionally discarded.

Fishing rod and line guide thereof

To provide a line guide ring which can be simply formed and which has a pull-out prevention structure which does not disturb a winding configuration of a winding thread. Micro-irregularities are formed on a top surface of an attachment leg portion of a line guide ring, the attachment leg portion is fastened to a fishing pole by using a nylon winding thread with a diameter of 0.1 mm-0.9 mm. A sufficient amount of a liquid reaction hardening resin adhesive is pasted on a surface of the wound winding thread, and the adhesive permeates into concave portions of the irregularities of the attachment leg portion.

Line guide ring and line guide ring attachment structure

The object of the invention is to solve the problem associated with a fishing rod reel seat in which a nut type movable hood scrapes a surface of a body at a position opposite to a mounting foot of the reel when the nut type movable hood causes the mounting foot of the reel to be pressed, a reel seat is provided with a body 33 having a reel foot seat surface 51, a cylindrical movable hood 37 threadedly fitted around the body 33 and a body protector 43 disposed within the movable hood 37. When the movable hood 37 is advanced under the condition that a mounting foot 73 of the reel 71 is seated on the reel foot seat surface 51, one end portion of the mounting foot 73 is inserted into the movable hood 37, and the one end portion is brought into pressing contact with the reel foot seat surface 51. Before that, the body protector 43 is brought into contact with the body 33 on the opposite side to the real foot seat surface 51.

Reel seat for a fishing rod

In order to facilitate the removal of the line entanglement, a frame is slanted and a guide ring member is formed into an oblong shape, however, if the guide ring member is oblong, a size of a guide ring member is increased, inversely, if a thickness of the guide ring member is decreased as a whole, a radius of curvature at side end portions of an inner circumferential surface of the guide ring member is decreased, the sliding resistance is increased depending upon an angle of the fishing line. Accordingly, a thickness t on the right and left of both side portions 4b extending in a straight line of the oblong guide ring member 4 is smaller than a thickness T of other portions 4a, the contact angle of the fishing line 10 to these portions 4b is kept almost unchanged, thus, there is no adverse affect against the sliding resistance even if these portions 4b are thinned.

Line guide for fishing rod

A line guide ring enhancing casting controllability of a fishing rod wherein the dimension between the inner circumferential surface of an annular holder frame for holding a guide ring and the bottom surface of the mounting leg being kept at a minimum and substantially the same as the plate thickness of a metal plate; the annular holder frame 3 for holding the guide ring 7 through which the fishing line being caused to pass and the mounting leg 4 for mounting the holder frame 3 onto the fishing rod being integrally formed from a single metal plate; the part on the outer circumferential side of the holder frame 3 being bent from a position close to its inner circumferential surface 5 in the axial direction so that the holder frame 3 may be formed into a shallow concave shape; the outer circumferential surface being formed into a rear surface 6 facing substantially in the same direction as the axial direction, and the mounting leg 4 extending from the rear surface 6.

Reel seat for fishing rod

Fishing rod guide

Fishing rod line guide

In order to avoid entanglement of a fishing line, a shape of a bridge is contrived. A top guide includes a guide ring retainer portion having a ring shape, a bridge extending downwardly rearwardly from both right and left sides, and a cylindrical mounting pipe into which a fishing rod is to be inserted. An outer configuration of the bridge is formed substantially into a V-shape with rear end portions being closed as viewed from above and below, the rear end portions being formed into an arrow head having a certain length in longitudinal direction, a lower surface of the rear end portions being formed into a slant surface close to the mounting pipe in accordance with the rear side, and the rear end portions being fixed to an outer circumferential surface of the mounting pipe from below, and, there being not bent portion like stepped portions in the outer shape of the bridge per se. Bent-portion-like stepped portions are not formed either in portions where the bridge and the mounting pipe are continuous with each other, for example, a position where the outer edge of each side and the outer circumferential surface of the mounting pipe are connected with each other, and there is a very little likelihood the fishing line to be hooked at the side portion and the pipe receiver portion.

Top guide for fishing rod

A fishing rod reel seat comprises a cylindrical form of body having a central bore through which a blank rod is to be passed and provided with a reel seat surface by removing a portion of an outer periphery of said body, a fixed hood positioned so as to cover one end of said reel seat surface and including a reel leg receiving recess that is open toward the other end of said reel seat surface, and a substantially cylindrical form of movable hood fitted over the other end of said body such that it is axially movable thereover, with a second reel leg receiving recess located between said movable hood and said reel seat surface and being open toward said fixed hood. A portion of the outer periphery of said body in a circumferential direction is removed to define said reel seat surface, and at least said movable hood is provided in coaxial relation to said body, with a tapered outer surface thereof being of diameter diminishing toward said fixed hood.

Reel seat for use on fishing rods

In a top guide having a bridge, if a length of the bridge is increased and the slant of the bridge is made gentle in order to enhance the entangled fishing line release effect, the weight is increased, and it is necessary to increase the thickness of a plate to compensate for the decreased bend-resistant mechanical strength. An annular frame 7 for retaining a guide ring 5, a support leg piece 9 and bridge pieces 25 are formed integrally with each other by a metal plate, a portion other than an inner circumferential portion of the frame 7 is drawn toward the rear portion to thereby form a cylindrical portion 19 surrounding the guide ring 5, the bridge pieces 25 extend gently obliquely rearwardly from an edge 21 of the cylindrical portion 19 facing rearwardly, rear ends of the bridge pieces 25 are continuous at a position separate rearwardly from a rod insertion pipe 17, and the bridge pieces 25 are bent so that their cross-sections perpendicular to a longitudinal direction form L-shapes.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Ryuichi Ohmura