Abstract: Disclosed is a fishing reel. A brake dial is provided in the side of an outer cover outside of a spool cover. An externally controllable brake device is provided between the brake dial and the spool cover such that the brake device is operated according to adjustment of the brake dial. A brush-type brake unit is fixed to the externally controllable brake device in the side of an inner surface of the spool cover so as to control the rotary force of the spool while laterally moving in response to actuation of the externally controllable brake device.

Abstract: A dual-bearing reel includes a reel unit, a handle, a spool shaft, a spool, and a casting control mechanism. The handle is rotatably supported by the reel unit. The spool shaft is rotatably supported at an end thereof by the shaft support part. The spool is mounted onto the spool shaft, where the spool is configured to be rotated in conjunction with rotation of the handle. The casting control mechanism includes a brake knob rotatably supported by the shaft support part, a first plate being disposed to be contactable with the brake knob and one of end surfaces of the spool shaft, and a second plate being disposed to be contactable with the other of end surfaces of the spool shaft. The brake knob is disposed entirely in the recess. The first plate is configured to be pressed in conjunction with rotation of the brake knob.

Abstract: A dual-bearing reel for forwardly releasing a fishing line includes a reel unit, a handle, a spool shaft, a spool, and a rotary operation knob. The reel unit includes a frame, a first cover, a second cover, and a shaft support part. The first cover has a recess and a circular opening formed in the recess. The shaft support part is mounted to the first cover, and is relatively rotatable to the first cover. The shaft support part is pivotable between an attachment position and a detachment position. The shaft support part has a knob portion disposed astride the opening. The spool is mounted to the spool shaft to be rotated in conjunction with rotation of the handle. The rotary operation knob is disposed concentrically to the spool shaft in a position where the knob portion is disposed axially outside and astride the rotary operation knob.

Abstract: A fishing reel has an externally controllable brake system including a brake dial provided on a left side cover outside a spool cover. The brake system is provided between the brake dial and the spool cover so as to externally control a rotary force of a spool. The brake system includes a rotary section rotating together with a rotary motion of the brake dial, and a brake housing provided close to the rotary section so as to laterally slide in response of the rotation of the rotary section, wherein an inner ring is fixed to the brake housing on an inner surface of the spool cover so as to stop the rotary motion of the spool while being guided along the brake housing.

Abstract: A drag mechanism is configured to brake rotation of a spool in a fishing-line releasing direction about a handle shaft. The drag mechanism includes a drag regulation member, a drag washer, a handle, a one-way clutch, and a cam. The drag regulation member is configured to regulate drag force, where the drag regulation member includes an operating part and a regulation nut. The regulation nut is axially movably and unitarily rotatably coupled to the operating part. The regulation nut is screwed onto an outer peripheral surface of a tip end of the handle shaft. The drag washer is disposed onto the handle shaft. The handle is disposed between the drag washer and the drag regulation member. The one-way clutch is configured to prevent rotation of the handle shaft in the fishing-line releasing direction. The cam mechanism is configured to increase the drag force.

Abstract: A brake-adjusting assembly for a fishing reel with a spool and has a first brake-adjusting device and a second brake-adjusting device. The first brake-adjusting device is mounted around a spindle of the spool and has a clutch cam and a lever mount. The clutch cam has a main plate body, a mounting tube, a spring and an abutting base formed on and protruding from the main plate body. The lever mount abuts with the clutch cam and has two pushing blocks, a mounting recess and at least one lever. The second brake-adjusting device is connected to the first brake-adjusting device and the spindle and has a connecting mount, a threaded tube and an adjusting switch. The connecting mount is mounted in the mounting recess. The threaded tube is mounted in the connecting mount to screw with the spindle. The adjusting switch is securely connected to the connecting mount.

Abstract: An ice fishing reel for facilitating automatic tension to the fishing line. The ice fishing reel includes a support assembly including a support member, a rod holder being in communication with the support member, and a shaft extending from the support member to support a spool; a handle assembly being in communication with the spool and the support assembly; and a spool tension assembly being supported upon the shaft and being biasedly engagable to the spool.

Abstract: A lever drag mechanism includes a friction disc, a drag disc, and a moving mechanism. The moving mechanism includes an urging member. The urging member urges a bearing by pressing an inner periphery thereof to allow an outer periphery of the bearing to make constant contact with a housing recess. When a drag lever is pivoted, the moving mechanism axially reciprocates the spool shaft to allow a second brake member to make contact with or to separate away from a first brake member.

Abstract: A drag adjusting mechanism for a dual-bearing reel comprises a drag adjusting lever, a cam mechanism, and a rotation restricting portion. The drag adjusting lever rotates about a spool shaft between a drag release position and a maximum drag position. The cam mechanism has a cam surface that converts rotation of the drag adjusting lever into axial movement of the drag mechanism along the axial direction of the spool shaft. The rotation restricting member is provided on the cam surface and regulates rotation of the drag adjusting lever to the drag release position. The rotation restricting member has a protrusion with an apex, a first slanted surface extending from the apex toward a first position corresponding to a drag release position, and a second slanted surface extending from the apex in the direction opposite to the drag release position. The angle of the first slanted surface is smaller than the angle of the second slanted surface.

Abstract: A dual-bearing reel having a detachable handle, in which decomposition and assembly thereof is easy without special tools. The dual-bearing reel has a handle including an opening and a threaded bore, the opening having a plurality of diametrically extending slots. A driving shaft has one end threaded into the threaded bore of the handle. The reel includes a nut for maintaining a plurality of washers in a proper position of the driving shaft; a spring inserted into a first threaded portion of the driving shaft, for generating a biasing force; a drag knob having an opening for receiving the nut, a first groove for contacting with a pin, and a second groove for receiving an angled locking ring; and a handle locking plate positioned on the driving shaft and fixed to the drag knob by the biasing force of the spring, the plate having hole for receiving the pin and a spring.

Abstract: A switchable anti-reverse mechanism for a fishing reel having an inner assembly which is fixedly mounted to the pinion of the fishing reel. The front end portion of the inner assembly is mounted to the rotor of the fishing reel. An outer assembly includes a housing having a plurality of slots and a cylindrical member having an opening extending coaxially with the pinion axis. The inner assembly is positioned within the opening of the outer assembly. The anti-reverse mechanism also includes means for allowing relative rotation around the pinion axis between the inner and outer assemblies in the line-winding direction and preventing relative rotation between the inner and outer assemblies in a reverse direction which is opposite to the line-winding direction. A plunger is movable along the plunger axis from a lock position to an unlock position, the plunger axis being parallel to the pinion axis.

Abstract: A unidirectional coupling arrangement for sense-selectively coupling the rotation of a fishing reel spool to a braking or drag arrangement. First and second relatively rotatable elements of the coupling arrangement connect by interlocking teeth which on the first element are carried by an axially-deflectable discrete rotor entrained by a surrounding ring. In the coupled sense of rotation a cam engagement between the rotor and surrounding ring keeps the rotor axially against the complementary teeth on the second rotational element. The onset of rotation in the opposite sense creates a cam engagement between the rotor and surrounding ring which slides the rotor axially away from the second element, disengaging the coupling teeth. This avoids the clicking sound associated with conventional sprung pawls in the uncoupled condition.

Abstract: A precision balanced fishing reel incorporates a fork-mounted spool coupled to an axle that rotates upon precision bearing assemblies. The fishing reel is rotationally balanced and fabricated from lightweight and heat-tolerant materials to facilitate high speed operation with little or no vibration and wobble. The fishing reel includes a disc braking system that utilizes a rotor coupled to the spool through a clutch bearing. The clutch bearing is configured to prevent independent rotation of the spool, relative to the rotor, in an outgoing direction while permitting unrestricted rotation of the spool in an incoming direction. A brake assembly employs brake pads to control the amount of rotational drag of the rotor and spool.

Abstract: An apparatus for exerting a drag force on a main gear within an assembly such as a fishing reel includes bearing means subject to selective amounts compressive force. Adjustable compressing means imposes compressive force on the bearing means, which force is translated into drag force on the main gear by linkage means between the bearing means and the main gear means. The bearing means may include a plurality of bearings mounted in a race, and may include a plurality of such races. The linkage means may include a plurality of washers selectively engaged with the main gear or with a sleeve about which the bearing means is mounted. Wear-resistant material may be operably disposed between two or more of the main gear, the plurality of washers, and the one or more bearing means.

Abstract: A fly reel drag direction changer having a ratchet member of the changer which has a ratchet gear part and a circular silent cam slot formed in the ratchet gear part. A silent cam is elastically received in the silent cam slot such that the cam is selectively rotated along with the ratchet member due to elasticity but simply slides in the silent cam slot when the elasticity is overcome. A stopper has a recess for receiving an arm of the silent cam such that the stopper is rotated between a ratchet engaging position and a ratchet releasing position in accordance with the rotating direction of the ratchet member. The stopper is mounted to a rotatable coupling wheel such that the stopper is rotated between the ratchet engaging position and the ratchet releasing position and the rotatable coupling wheel is selectively rotated along with the ratchet member in the ratchet engaging position of the stopper.

Abstract: A braking force adjusting device for a fishing reel in which a nut on the market is combined, as a threaded engaging member, with the adjuster, so that the resultant adjuster is simple in construction and low in manufacturing cost. The adjuster includes an engaging portion, a central through-hole, operating levers (forming an operating member) turned with the fingers, and a fitting polygonal recess at the center. The engaging portion corresponds to the bottom of the recess. The threaded engaging member, which is a nut on the market, is fitted in the fitting polygonal recess merely by setting it therein. The threaded engaging member is engaged with the male-threaded portion of the handle shaft.

Abstract: A fishing reel having a drag mechanism with juxtaposed surfaces relieved in those areas which are opposite the highest sections of the working cam surfaces to thereby increase the drag.

Abstract: To await a hit of a fish with a small tension applied to a fishline, there is provided a secondary drag mechanism in a drag device. A hollow shaft is rotatably fitted on a fixed support shaft of a reel frame and is operatively prevented from rotating in a reverse direction by a rachet and a claw. A braking gear meshed with a linking gear of a handle shaft and rotatably fitted on the hollow shaft is braked by a first drag device having friction plates on the hollow shaft. When the claw is disengaged from the ratchet, the secondary drag mechanism prevents the reverse rotation of the hollow shaft with respect to the fixed support shaft to produce a minute braking force against the reverse rotation of the handle shaft.

Abstract: A spool shaft is secured to the body of the fishing reel at the center thereof by press-fitting or the like, and projects from the body. The swing member is supported by the shaft so that the member is swingable. A spool is rotatably fitted on the shaft. A spring is strung between the long restriction arm of the swing member and a pin implanted in the body, and urges the member to put the arm in contact with an engagement and stop pin implanted in the body, to restrict the swinging of the swing member. An intermediate gear is rotatably fitted on a shaft secured to the other arm of the swing member, and is always engaged with a drive gear provided on the spool. A drag gear is provided near the intermediate gear so that the latter can be engaged with the former. A swing member can be prevented from moving at the time of fishline casting operation or the like so as to cause the intermediate gear to collide against the drag gear.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes a spool for winding a fishing line, and a handle for rotating the spool in a line winding direction. The handle is connected to the spool through a handle shaft and a drive gear mounted on the handle shaft. A friction type rotation restrictor is mounted on the handle shaft between the drive gear and handle and linked to a reel body through a one-way clutch. The rotation restrictor prevents rotation in a line unwinding direction of the drive gear and spool against a tension applied to the fishing line and regardless of a stopping phase of the spool.

Abstract: A two-bearing reel comprising a handle for rotating a fishing line takeup spool, a handle shaft connected to the handle, and a rotary transmission member for transmitting drive from the handle shaft to the spool. A one-way clutch acts on the rotary transmission member for preventing rotation of the spool in a direction to feed out the fishing line. The one-way clutch includes a rod supported to be slidable but unrotatable relative to an outer wall of the reel, rollers contacting a tapered surface defined on an inward end of the rod, and a coil spring for inwardly urging the rod.

Abstract: A friction drag adjustment mechanism is provided for fishing reels to adjust friction drag quickly and easily between a pair of selected reference set points. The adjustment mechanism comprises a short bracket arm mounted onto a fishing reel at an outboard side of a reel handle to project radially outwardly from the rotational axis of the reel handle. A stop pin on the bracket arm is adapted to protrude in an inboard direction to a position between a selected adjacent pair of outwardly radiating spokes on so-called star wheel of a star-type drag adjustment assembly. The stop pin functions to restrict star wheel rotation for drag adjustment to a limited part-circle motion, such that the adjacent star wheel spokes respectively contact the stop pin at opposite end limits of such part-circle rotation to define the pair of reproducible reference set points.

Abstract: A spinning reel assembly for use in fishing includes a spool shaft mounted to a spinning reel casing but movable rearwardly and forwardly, a spool for winding fishline on having an interior bore for receiving the spool shaft, and a plurality of drag plates secured within the bore, some of which may be integral with the spool. A drag adjustment knob is threaded onto the spool shaft for applying an axial force to the drag plates in order to brake the spool against rotation.