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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1996
Yasuo Komura, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinao Katoh, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyoshi Tsurufuji, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Daiwa Seiko, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inter-line fishing rod including a joint portion which, when a spirally shaped fishing line guide is disposed in the interior of a rod pipe joined outside, prevents the fishing line from getting caught in the terminated portion of the spirally shaped fishing line guide, thereby allowing the fishing line to be inserted smoothly through the fishing rod. In the inter-line fishing rod including a joint portion,to be joined according to a normal joining method or a reverse joining method or to be connected integrally, a spirally shaped fishing line guide,is disposed in the interior of a rod pipe,situated outside the joint portion,, the terminated portion,E of the guide,is situated in the neighborhood of the joint portion,, and a fishing line guide ring,having a smaller inside diameter D,than the inside diameter D,of the portion of the spirally shaped fishing line guide,existing in the terminated portion thereof is disposed at a position which exists not only in the end portion of a rod pipe,situated inside the joint portion,or in the neighborhood of such end portion but also in the rod pipe,or in the outside rod pipe