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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 1988
Filed:
May. 21, 1987
Hideo Noda, Sakai, JP;
Shimano Industrial Company Limited, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A fishing reel which includes a clutch lever for disengaging a clutch and a torsion spring for selectively biasing the clutch lever toward its forward movement position where the clutch is disengaged or its backward movement position where the clutch is engaged. The reel includes a return spring having a restoring force smaller than a biasing force of the torsion spring for the clutch lever at its forward movement position and biasing the clutch lever only in the restoring direction and a biasing force control mechanism for controlling the biasing force of the torsion spring for the clutch lever at its forward movement position to be reduced more than the restoring force of the return spring.