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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2018
W.c. Bradley/zebco Holdings, Inc., Tulsa, OK (US);
Hyunkyu Kim, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
W.C. BRADLEY/ZEBCO HOLDINGS, INC., Tulsa, OK (US);
Abstract
A fishing reel centrifugal brake assembly is keyed to a spool. The assembly retains slidable brake shoes that extend to contact a ring and speed adjust shoes that extend to contact a conical surface. Brake shoe channels are received on brake assembly rails. Speed adjust shoes apply centrifugal force against the conical surface to move the assembly axially when rotated. The brake assembly is urged away from the brake ring and towards the spool at lower rotational speeds. Braking resulting from brake shoes/brake ring contact is adjustable by a control dial that defines a camming surface that moves the brake ring axially to position a smaller or larger diameter portion of the brake ring adjacent to the brake shoes. Frame springs press the brake ring against the camming surface. A brake spring retainer maintains frame spring orientation when springs are compressed, which reduces the possible of reel jams.