Patents Assigned to Penn Fishing Tackel Manufacturing Co.
  • Drag material and apparatus for fishing reels
    Patent number: 7017845
    Abstract: A drag mechanism in a fishing reel has a friction material impregnated with a phenolic resin before it is laminated to a drag plate. The material is 30% phenolic coated 99+% carbon fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Penn Fishing Tackel Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: Chad Clark
  • Drag system for accommodating thermal expansion
    Patent number: 6053446
    Abstract: A drag system for a fishing reel provides thermal expansion of the spool by having an outboard bearing which does not direct any force against the proximate shoulder of the spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Penn Fishing Tackel Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Herbert Henze, Charles E. Jewell