Abstract: A torque limiting device includes a first rotating member, a second rotating member, an engagement member, and a biasing member. The biasing member biases the engagement member from a first rotating member toward a second rotating member. The biasing member biases the engagement member in a direction inclined relative to a radial direction of the first rotating member.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes a regulating member, an operating lever, a first plate and a second plate. The operating lever includes a first through hole penetrated by the regulating member. The first plate includes a second through hole penetrated by the regulating member. The first plate is attached to one of the regulating member and the operating lever so as to be rotatable unitarily therewith. The second plate includes a third through hole penetrated by the regulating member. The second plate is attached to the other of the regulating member and the operating lever so as to be rotatable unitarily therewith. Additionally, the first plate includes a plurality of engaging recesses on a surface thereof opposed to the second plate. Moreover, the second plate includes three or more engaging protrusions, which are engaged with the engaging recesses, on a surface thereof opposed to the first plate.

Abstract: The lever-operated fishing reel is geared to rotate the line spool through several revolutions for each arcuate operation of a reciprocating rewind lever, to provide for single handed operation. The mechanical advantage provided through the gear train from the line spool back to the lever is obviated through a unidirectional rotational device, preferably a sprag, with another such device operating to prevent unwinding of the line from the spool as the lever is recycled. The gear train between the lever and spool may be disengaged to allow for casting, and the gear case may be oriented as desired relative to the spool housing to position the rewind lever as desired by the angler. The orientation of the mechanism may be reversed by opening the gear case, inverting the unidirectional rotational devices, and moving the rod attachment cleat from one side of the reel to the other.

Abstract: A power transmission control apparatus is for use with a vehicle that includes a power generator. The device includes a switching unit and a positioning unit. The switching unit includes an electric driving mechanism and an outer shell. The electric driving mechanism includes an electric motor and a gear assembly. The positioning unit includes a position limiting member and an engaging portion that has first and second engaging ends. One gear of the gear assembly is driven by the electric motor to rotate between a non-supplying position, where the position limiting member engages the first engaging end and where the power generator cannot work, and a supplying position, where the position limiting member engages the second engaging end and where the power generator can work.

Abstract: A drag system for use on a fishing reel includes a shaft and a drag unit rotatably located on the shaft and including at least one pawl that extends beyond an outer diameter of a cover of the drag unit. The drag system also includes a housing with an internal gear wherein the housing is connected to the shaft and covers the drag unit such that the at least one pawl interacts with the internal gear to restrict rotation of the housing about the shaft in one direction.

Abstract: In a first embodiment of the present invention, a fishing line latching member can be returned from the fishing line releasable state (clutch OFF) to the fishing line windable state (clutch ON) simply by operating a return operation member, without rotatably operating the handle as in a conventional manner. This enables the user to respond promptly even when he/she gets a bite immediately after casting the fishing line. Furthermore, it also allows the user to use a finger of his/her hand holding the fishing rod to perform an operation for removing slack of the fishing line by using the return operation member.

Abstract: Fishing reel control apparatus, comprising a pulley carried for rotation in opposite directions; a ratchet wheel carried for rotation; a spring wire wrapped about a portion of the pulley and having a projecting end; a pivoted dog connected to the wire end so that endwise displacement of the wire effected by pulley rotation operates to release the dog from the ratchet wheel when the pulley is rotated in one direction, whereby a fishing line spool attached to the ratchet wheel is free to rotate, as the line pays out from the spool; and whereby when the pulley is rotated in opposite direction the wire is displaced to pivot the dog into engagement with the ratchet wheel, and the spool is rotated by the ratchet wheel to wrap the line as the pulley is rotated relative to the wire.

Abstract: A combination of a fishing reel and a one-way clutch handle comprising a ring with an inner periphery clutch surface, a mounting hole and a plurality of threaded mounting holes, a circular shaped clutch element having a rectangular shaped center hole, a plurality of cam surfaces and a plurality of flat surfaces forming a space wherein a spring and a roller are placed. A handle arm is fastened to the ring to form the handle.

Abstract: A driving arrangement for a motorized fishing reel has a first or driving gear, a second larger gear, a third or pinion gear, and a fourth gear. The driving gear is mounted to and driven by a shaft of a motor. The second gear is meshed with and driven by the driving gear. The pinion gear is meshed with and driven by the second gear. The fourth gear is meshed with and driven by the pinion gear. A clutch arrangement including a cam clicker input drive and a cam plate output drive is disposed such that the cam clicker positively engages and is driven by the fourth gear for rotation in one direction when the motor is actuated and the cam clicker yields from engagement with the fourth gear when the clutch arrangement rotates in that one direction relative to the fourth gear. A reel shaft is connected to the cam plate such that the reel shaft and the cam plate rotate with each other in that one direction.

Abstract: A linear winding assembly for reeling in the fishing line of a fishing reel, the winding assembly for retrofitting in the housing of the reel so the user can reel in the line without turning the handle, thus freeing one of his hands for other purposes. The winding assembly includes a cylindrical pulley housing disposed on the shaft of the reel, a roller retainer positioned within the pulley housing and having a pair of spaced-apart rollers that rotate within the pulley housing and a flat clutch plate abutting the pulley housing and having a surface upon which the rollers ride. Concentric with the shaft and positioned in linear axial alignment adjacent the pulley housing counterbore is a pulley gear pressed to the pulley housing and a driven gear mounted to a clutch bearing which is mounted on the shaft. A trigger is mounted to the slider member, and the slider member is mounted within the stem of the reel for reciprocable upward and downward movement.

Abstract: A "horizontal" type reel for fly fishing comprising a line-receiving spool mounted to rotate inside a housing and rotated by a step-up gear mechanism controlled by a lever pivotally mounted on the end wall of the housing about an axis that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the spool, said lever extending along the handle of a fishing rod.

Abstract: A linear winding assembly for reeling in the fishing line of a fishing reel, the winding assembly for retrofitting in the housing of the reel so the user can reel in the line without turning the handle, thus freeing one of his hands for other purposes. The winding assembly includes a cylindrical pulley housing disposed on the shaft of the reel, a roller retainer positioned within the pulley housing and having a pair of spaced-apart rollers that rotate within the pulley housing and a flat clutch plate abutting the pulley housing and having a surface upon which the rollers ride. Concentric with the shaft and positioned in linear axial alignment adjacent the pulley housing counterbore is a pulley gear pressed to the pulley housing and a driven gear mounted to a clutch bearing which is mounted on the shaft. A trigger is mounted to the slider member, and the slider member is mounted within the stem of the reel for reciprocable upward and downward movement.

Abstract: A fishing reel with an anti-reverse to free spool adjustment including a cylindrical series of spaced peripheral grooves on the spool spindle and a hand manipulated rotary member setting variable pressures on a ball in a ratchet member surrounding the series of grooves, thereby locking the spindle or releasing the spindle to a variable degree.

Abstract: The invention provides a take up trigger for a fishing reel which includes an annular overrunning clutch, having a lock mode and an overrun mode, annularly fitted onto the shaft of the fishing reel with a trigger lever extending from the housing on the clutch, the clutch being oriented on the shaft such that the clutch overrun mode corresponds to the reel take up mode, whereby the clutch lock mode necessarily corresponds to the trigger take up mode.