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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1982
Robert L McMickle, Spirit Lake, IA (US);
James T Rumbaugh, Spirit Lake, IA (US);
Berkley and Company, Inc., Spirit Lake, IA (US);
Abstract
A resilient ferrule cover for joining tapered tubular sections of a fishing rod wherein the ferrule cover is slid over a male ferrule portion with one end of the ferrule cover abutting a female ferrule while covering an exposed portion of the male ferrule and the other end of the ferrule cover abuts a chamfered transition between the male ferrule and its supporting rod segment. After the ferrule is repeatedly assembled, wear of the parts increases, and the ferrule cover, since it is flexible, rides up over the portion of the rod to which the male ferrule is attached, assuring a continued firm ferrule junction while covering the exposed ferrule portion.