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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1991
Arne Johansson, Morrum, SE;
Abu Garcia Produktion AB, Svangsta, SE;
Abstract
A fishing reel of the multiplier type has a frame and a shaft extending through the frame and carrying a rotatable line spool. A clutch member is mounted on the shaft to be shifted between a coupling position, in which it engages the line spool for rotating it, and a neutral position, in which it is disengaged from the spool. A mounting plate carried by the frame has a plurality of mounting pins parallel to the shaft. The mounting plate carries on these pins a clutch mechanism having a yoke in which the clutch member is rotatably mounted and which is displaceably mounted on two of the mounting pins for shifting the clutch member between its two positions. A spring presses the yoke in such a direction that the clutch member is urged towards its coupling position. A link arm is pivotally mounted at one end on one of the mounting pins and has at its other end a pivot pin on which a U-shaped member is pivotally mounted. The link arm is pivotable by a trigger. The U-shaped member has cam portions adapted, when the link arm is pivoted from a first position to a second position and upon a resulting pivotal movement of the U-shaped member from a first pivoting position to a second pivoting position against the action of the spring, to move the yoke to a position in which the clutch member is in its neutral position.