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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1998
Roger Ylikangas, Karlshamn, SE;
Berkley Inc., Spirit Lake, IA (US);
Abstract
A fishing reel of the multiplier type has a frame, a line spool rotatably mounted in the frame, a brake disk coaxial with the line spool and non-rotatably but axially displaceably arranged in the frame, and a brake unit connected to the line spool and adapted, in cooperation with the brake disk, to brake spool rotation. The brake unit has brake arms with a first end and a second end. The brake arms support at their first end a brake element and are at their second end connected to the holder in a manner pivotable about a pivot axis perpendicular to the line spool axis, so as to be pivoted between an off-position and a braking position, in which the brake elements engage the brake disk. The first end of each brake arm is positioned radially inside its second end. Each brake arm extends in a direction which is so offset from a radial direction in respect of the line spool axis that its first end is positioned in the direction of rotation of the line spool seen behind its second end.