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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1986
John E Brackett, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Larry J Dahlberg, Brainerd, MN (US);
Fishing Designs, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A fishing rod handle having a butt grip segment and a reel seat segment, with at least the butt grip segment being laterally offset at a forward location thereon behind the reel seat segment, on the opposite side of the reel seat segment from that on which the crank of a reel would be positioned. The rear end of the reel seat segment may also be laterally offset on the same side of the handle to provide a complimentary, offset contour merging with the laterally offset butt grip segment. Such a laterally offset fishing rod handle may also be provided with a curved surface on the offset side of the butt grip, with the curved surface being snuggly received within the palm of the user's hand, when palming the butt grip, reel seat, and reel. Canting or rotating of the laterally offset butt grip towards the laterally offset side also ensures that more of the user's hand will be positioned on the top surface of the butt grip to effectively resist and control leveraged upward rod forces resulting from forward and downward pulling forces on the rod tip.