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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2000
Chul Suk Oh, Seoul, KR;
Shin A Sports Co., Ltd., Incheon, KR;
Abstract
A spinning reel having a main reel body, a spool supported so as to be rotatable around a spool shaft and movable toward an axial direction, and a drag brake mechanism for applying a braking force against rotation of the spool shaft. The spinning reel includes a spool shaft mounted in the reel body of the reel to be rotatable and axially movable; a clutch sleeve including a tubular portion having a non-circular internal surface and a circular external surface and mounted on one end portion of the spool shaft to be relatively unrotatable and axially movable, a flange having an engaging groove formed on one end of the tubular portion, and a plurality of projections protruded axially from the flange; a retainer sleeve including a plurality of recesses formed complementary to the projections on a side surface of the retainer sleeve facing the projections, and a non-circular tubular portion having a flat surface for supporting a drag braking plate and a plurality of washers to be relatively unrotatable; a master gear including a first gear meshed with a pinion gear mounted on one end of the spool shaft, a second gear meshed with an auxiliary gear, and a hollow shaft connecting the first and second gears in a vertical direction; a hollow operating member including a latch one end of which is inserted into the groove of the clutch sleeve, and a boss formed on the other end thereof; a pushing member located on an upper surface of the first gear of the master gear within a range of rotation of an arm extended radially from a rotating plate rotating together with the first gear and constantly abutting with a bent portion of the operating member by means of a spring; and a clutch member pivotally movable by means of the clutch lever.