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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1978
Kiyohide Kamikawa, Sakai, JP;
Shimano Industrial Company Limited, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A fishing reel has a spool shaft rotatably supporting a spool on the shaft being provided with a control for restraining the spool from axially moving and a drag plate applying resistance against the rotation of spool. The drag plate is disc-like shaped and has an outer peripheral portion capable of being in contact with a front disc-like wall of the spool, a central portion non-rotatably supported to the spool shaft and axially movable with respect thereto, and an intermediate portion connecting the central and outer peripheral portions which is elastically deformable axially of the spool shaft, so that the spool may be adjusted widely with respect to rotational resistance applied thereto and locked to the spool shaft under the maximum rotation resistance.