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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1995
Bengt-Ake Henriksson, Svangsta, SE;
Abu AB, Svangsta, SE;
Abstract
An open-face fishing reel of the fixed-spool type comprises a housing, a spindle element non-rotatably arranged in the housing, a handle for rotating a drive shaft, mounted in the housing, and a rotor which is rotatable by rotation of the drive shaft. A hollow line spool shaft is non-rotatably arranged on a sleeve-shaped front member of the spindle element and rotatably supports a line spool. An oscillating mechanism is arranged to impart an axial oscillating motion to the line spool as the rotor rotates. The oscillating mechanism comprises an endless screw which is rotatably mounted in the sleeve-shaped front spindle member. A gear wheel non-rotatably connected to the endless screw meshes, via a recess in the front spindle member, with a toothed element non-rotatably connected to the rotor, thereby rotating the screw as the rotor rotates. A groove-follower pin connected to the line spool shaft engages, via a longitudinal slit in the front spindle member, with the endless screw so as to move, on rotation thereof, the line spool shaft and thus the line spool back and forth along the front spindle member.