CA1265494A - Level winder for fishing reel - Google Patents
Level winder for fishing reelInfo
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A level winder for double-bearing fishing reel is pro-vided with a spool shaft rotatably arranged on support frames and having a spool gear meshable with a drive gear operable by a handle which is rotatably held by support frames, a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on a traverse cam through which is extended a traverse cam shaft to one end of which is fitted a traverse cam shaft gear which is meshable with the drive gear, and with a level winder guide arm which is mounted on and rotated with the traverse cam guide cylinder connected to a traverse cam shaft bushing and which is shiftable reciprocally in lateral direction. The level winder further includes a device for engag-ing or disengaging the traverse cam shaft gear with the traverse cam and a device for actuating the traverse cam shaft bushing which is connected to the traverse cam guide cylinder to be rotated, and a pair of line guide arms the lower end of which are arranged through a pair of leaf springs on a base stand to be resiliently held thereby in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms may be shifted laterally in opposite direction to form a letter V when a line guide holder which is holding the pair of line guide arms in parallel between retractable pins dis-posed on the holder is tilted away from the line guide arms in accordance with the tilting of the traverse cam guide cylinder.
A level winder for double-bearing fishing reel is pro-vided with a spool shaft rotatably arranged on support frames and having a spool gear meshable with a drive gear operable by a handle which is rotatably held by support frames, a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on a traverse cam through which is extended a traverse cam shaft to one end of which is fitted a traverse cam shaft gear which is meshable with the drive gear, and with a level winder guide arm which is mounted on and rotated with the traverse cam guide cylinder connected to a traverse cam shaft bushing and which is shiftable reciprocally in lateral direction. The level winder further includes a device for engag-ing or disengaging the traverse cam shaft gear with the traverse cam and a device for actuating the traverse cam shaft bushing which is connected to the traverse cam guide cylinder to be rotated, and a pair of line guide arms the lower end of which are arranged through a pair of leaf springs on a base stand to be resiliently held thereby in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms may be shifted laterally in opposite direction to form a letter V when a line guide holder which is holding the pair of line guide arms in parallel between retractable pins dis-posed on the holder is tilted away from the line guide arms in accordance with the tilting of the traverse cam guide cylinder.
Description
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This invention rela-tes to an irnproverncnt- to a level winder for double-bearing fishing reel.
In a fishing line gu:ide member of a conventional level winder for a ~ishing reel, the fishing line is le-t out through a guide hole in the line guide member while the lien is let out.
However, due to an increasing frictional resistance generated when the line passes through the guide hole, the paying out of the line is hindered thereby the paying ou-t speed and distance are reduced. Therefore, it becomes difficult to perform a speedy casting of the lure at a predetermined distance.
~ known level winder of this kind has been devised to eliminate the drawbacks. The level winder is explained in U.S.A.
Patent 4,557,429 which is based on Japanese Patents with serial numbers 58-122866 and 107894. In order to pay out a line during fishing, an operating lever of the clutch plate of a clutch means is pressed downward to move the clutch plate to its inner posi-tion. Consequently, an operating projections disposed on the clutch plate urge an operating plate outward to disengage a pin~
ion from the spool shaft and thereby enables a spool to rotate.
~t the same time, an operating arm o~ the clutch plate turns an operating cam to rotate a slidable member by a guide cylinder so that locking pins which are provided in line guide arms and are engaged with a locking recess may be disengaged therefrom.
AS a result, the guide arms are moved away from each other by the force of a spring toward the frame bases. Accord-ingly, the line can be paid out without coming into contact with cylindrical members attached to the line guide arms.
However, the structure of level winder Eor the fishing reel of the conventional type publicized in U.S.A. Patent Speci-fication may bring forth the following drawbacks. 1. The lock-ing pin provided in the line guide arms may fail to make properengagement with or disengagement from the locking recess due to .. , . ~
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wear and tear of edge portions of the loc~.ing recess -through fre-quent shifting of the locking pln in and out of the locking recess. 2. When an operating arm of the clutch plate turns an operating cam mounted on the guide cylinder to rotate the slid-able member, an engagement be-tween the operating cam and the operating arm may not be properly performed due to a slip-sliding therebetween with a result that a proper rotation of the yuide cylinder may not be obtained. 3. The struc-ture of clutch means is so complicated as to comprise various parts requiring preci-sion accuracy such as a clutch plate having an operating arm, adead point spring, an operating projection, a pinion mounted on a spool shaft and engageable with a driving gear of a handle shaft together with operating members, etc. Therefore, an efficient production of the fishing reel with high yields may not be obtained.
The invention provides a level winder which is so simple in structure that an efficient production and high yields may be obtained.
The present lnvention also provides a lever winder means wherein a line guide arm holder receives a pair of line guide arm in parallel to releases them to meet timely and smooth level winding operation.
The present invention again provides a transverse cam guide cylinder and a transverse shaft bushing which are properly rotated by actuating means.
According to the present invention there is provided a double-bearing fishing reel comprising a casing; a handle shaft rotatably attached to said casing; a handle for rotating said handle shaft attached thereto; a drive gear means mounted on said handle shaft; a spool shaft rotatably and a~ially slidably mounted on said casing; a spool and a spool gear means~mounted on said spool shafk and meshable with said drive gear means; an ;.''i , .
operating lever mean~ attached to sald cas:ing ~o~ enyagi.ng said spool gear means wi~h said drive year means for ~ausiny said spool to be driven by rotation oF said ~landle and for disengayiny said spool year means from said drive gear means for causing said spool to be ~reely rotatable on said spool shaft; a traverse cam shaft rotatably and axially slidably mounted on said casingi a traverse cam and a traverse carn gear means mounted on said tra-verse cam shaft, said traverse cam gear means being meshable with said drive gear means; a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam; a level winder including a level winder guide means mounted on and rotatable with said traverse cam guide cylinder, said level winder guide means being laterally recipro-cal along said traverse cam cylinder, said level winder guide means having an integral slant arm, a line guide arm holder on said slant arm, and a pair of retractable pins reciprocally held in said line guide arm holder; a pair of line guide arms, each said line guide arm having first and second ends, each said first end being rotatably attached to said casing, and each said second end being engageable by said pair of retractable pins for holding said pair of line guide arms in parallel when said level winder ~uide means is reciprocated along said traverse cam cylinder;
biasing means for biasing said pair of line guide arms apart to form a substantially V-shape when said pair of line guide arms are not held in parallel by said pair of said retractable pins;l and means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam for reciprocally moving said level winder guide means along said traverse cam cylinder when said cam gear means meshes with said drive gear mean for rotation by said handle.
Thus, according to the present invention the level winder for double-bearing fishing reel is provided with spool shaft rotatably arranged on a support means and having a spool gear meshable with a drive gear operable by a handle which is rotatably held by support means, with a traverse cam yuide cylin-der mounted on the traverse cam through which is extended a tra-f.~. ' '..
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verse cam shaf-t to one ~nd of which is fitt~d a travarse cam shaft gear which is meshable with the drive gear operable by the handle, and with a level winder guide means which is mounted on and rotated with the traverse cam guide cylinder connected to a traverse cam shaft bushing and which is shiftable reciprocally in lateral direction, and the level wi.nder further includes; a means for engaging or disengaging -t~.e traverse carn shaft gear with the traverse cam; means for actuating a traverse cam shaft bushing which is connected to the traverse cam guide cylinder to be rotated and a pair of line guide arms the lower end of which are arranged through a pair of leaf springs on the base stand to resiliently held thereby in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms may be shifted laterally in opposite direction to form a letter v when a line guide holder which is holding a pair of line guide arms in parallel between retractable pins disposed in the holder is tilted away from the pair of line guide arms in accordance with the tilting of the traverse cam guide cylinder.
In one embodiment of the present invention said means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam includes an inside gear attached to said casing and having a curved arm with a projection thereon, and a third link member having at one edge thereof a hole into which said projection of said curved arm of said inside gear is inserted, said third link member having at the other edge thereof a v-shaped groove receiving a.hooked leaf spring therein and a tapered cam positioned thereon, and a traverse cam shaft bushing having a V-shaped groove engageable with said hooked leaf spring being accommodated in said third link member, and a resilient means for rotating said cam shaft bushing clockwise or counter-clockwise, said cam shaft bushing being connected to said tra-verse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam and a holder plate provided with a bifurcated leaf spring Eor holdlng a collar of said traverse cam shaft from undernaath thereof and with a slit defined therein at a right angle -to a bifu~cated leaf spring in which sa.id tapered cam of said third link member is ~Ç~
inserted for shif-ting said traverse cam shaft year away from said traverse cam for disengagement therewith when said cam touches slidingly on the surface of the bifurca-ted leaf spring while said third lin~ member is shifted, and means for actuating said tra-verse cam shaft bushing which is connected to said traverse camguide cylinder to be rotated therewith. Suitably said means for actuating said traverse cam shaft bushing further includes a hooked end of said hooked leaf spring, said hooked end of said hooked leaf spring being in engagement wi-th said V-shaped groove 10` defined in said traverse cam shaft bushing. Desirably said oper-ating lever means comprises an operating lever connected to a lever gear mounted on a spool sleeve through a connecting means, an operating gear which is ro-tatably a-ttached to said casing, said operating gear being meshable with said lever gear and hav-ing a cylinder body around which a torsion spring is mounted,said cylinder body having an arm having an under surface thereof, said under surface having a tapered portion being engageable with said spool gear means for partial disengagement with said drive gear means operable by said handle, and said inside gear is pro-vided with a base having teeth thereon meshable with said operat-ing gear.
The present invention will be further illustrated by way of the accompanying drawings, in which:-
This invention rela-tes to an irnproverncnt- to a level winder for double-bearing fishing reel.
In a fishing line gu:ide member of a conventional level winder for a ~ishing reel, the fishing line is le-t out through a guide hole in the line guide member while the lien is let out.
However, due to an increasing frictional resistance generated when the line passes through the guide hole, the paying out of the line is hindered thereby the paying ou-t speed and distance are reduced. Therefore, it becomes difficult to perform a speedy casting of the lure at a predetermined distance.
~ known level winder of this kind has been devised to eliminate the drawbacks. The level winder is explained in U.S.A.
Patent 4,557,429 which is based on Japanese Patents with serial numbers 58-122866 and 107894. In order to pay out a line during fishing, an operating lever of the clutch plate of a clutch means is pressed downward to move the clutch plate to its inner posi-tion. Consequently, an operating projections disposed on the clutch plate urge an operating plate outward to disengage a pin~
ion from the spool shaft and thereby enables a spool to rotate.
~t the same time, an operating arm o~ the clutch plate turns an operating cam to rotate a slidable member by a guide cylinder so that locking pins which are provided in line guide arms and are engaged with a locking recess may be disengaged therefrom.
AS a result, the guide arms are moved away from each other by the force of a spring toward the frame bases. Accord-ingly, the line can be paid out without coming into contact with cylindrical members attached to the line guide arms.
However, the structure of level winder Eor the fishing reel of the conventional type publicized in U.S.A. Patent Speci-fication may bring forth the following drawbacks. 1. The lock-ing pin provided in the line guide arms may fail to make properengagement with or disengagement from the locking recess due to .. , . ~
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wear and tear of edge portions of the loc~.ing recess -through fre-quent shifting of the locking pln in and out of the locking recess. 2. When an operating arm of the clutch plate turns an operating cam mounted on the guide cylinder to rotate the slid-able member, an engagement be-tween the operating cam and the operating arm may not be properly performed due to a slip-sliding therebetween with a result that a proper rotation of the yuide cylinder may not be obtained. 3. The struc-ture of clutch means is so complicated as to comprise various parts requiring preci-sion accuracy such as a clutch plate having an operating arm, adead point spring, an operating projection, a pinion mounted on a spool shaft and engageable with a driving gear of a handle shaft together with operating members, etc. Therefore, an efficient production of the fishing reel with high yields may not be obtained.
The invention provides a level winder which is so simple in structure that an efficient production and high yields may be obtained.
The present lnvention also provides a lever winder means wherein a line guide arm holder receives a pair of line guide arm in parallel to releases them to meet timely and smooth level winding operation.
The present invention again provides a transverse cam guide cylinder and a transverse shaft bushing which are properly rotated by actuating means.
According to the present invention there is provided a double-bearing fishing reel comprising a casing; a handle shaft rotatably attached to said casing; a handle for rotating said handle shaft attached thereto; a drive gear means mounted on said handle shaft; a spool shaft rotatably and a~ially slidably mounted on said casing; a spool and a spool gear means~mounted on said spool shafk and meshable with said drive gear means; an ;.''i , .
operating lever mean~ attached to sald cas:ing ~o~ enyagi.ng said spool gear means wi~h said drive year means for ~ausiny said spool to be driven by rotation oF said ~landle and for disengayiny said spool year means from said drive gear means for causing said spool to be ~reely rotatable on said spool shaft; a traverse cam shaft rotatably and axially slidably mounted on said casingi a traverse cam and a traverse carn gear means mounted on said tra-verse cam shaft, said traverse cam gear means being meshable with said drive gear means; a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam; a level winder including a level winder guide means mounted on and rotatable with said traverse cam guide cylinder, said level winder guide means being laterally recipro-cal along said traverse cam cylinder, said level winder guide means having an integral slant arm, a line guide arm holder on said slant arm, and a pair of retractable pins reciprocally held in said line guide arm holder; a pair of line guide arms, each said line guide arm having first and second ends, each said first end being rotatably attached to said casing, and each said second end being engageable by said pair of retractable pins for holding said pair of line guide arms in parallel when said level winder ~uide means is reciprocated along said traverse cam cylinder;
biasing means for biasing said pair of line guide arms apart to form a substantially V-shape when said pair of line guide arms are not held in parallel by said pair of said retractable pins;l and means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam for reciprocally moving said level winder guide means along said traverse cam cylinder when said cam gear means meshes with said drive gear mean for rotation by said handle.
Thus, according to the present invention the level winder for double-bearing fishing reel is provided with spool shaft rotatably arranged on a support means and having a spool gear meshable with a drive gear operable by a handle which is rotatably held by support means, with a traverse cam yuide cylin-der mounted on the traverse cam through which is extended a tra-f.~. ' '..
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verse cam shaf-t to one ~nd of which is fitt~d a travarse cam shaft gear which is meshable with the drive gear operable by the handle, and with a level winder guide means which is mounted on and rotated with the traverse cam guide cylinder connected to a traverse cam shaft bushing and which is shiftable reciprocally in lateral direction, and the level wi.nder further includes; a means for engaging or disengaging -t~.e traverse carn shaft gear with the traverse cam; means for actuating a traverse cam shaft bushing which is connected to the traverse cam guide cylinder to be rotated and a pair of line guide arms the lower end of which are arranged through a pair of leaf springs on the base stand to resiliently held thereby in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms may be shifted laterally in opposite direction to form a letter v when a line guide holder which is holding a pair of line guide arms in parallel between retractable pins disposed in the holder is tilted away from the pair of line guide arms in accordance with the tilting of the traverse cam guide cylinder.
In one embodiment of the present invention said means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam includes an inside gear attached to said casing and having a curved arm with a projection thereon, and a third link member having at one edge thereof a hole into which said projection of said curved arm of said inside gear is inserted, said third link member having at the other edge thereof a v-shaped groove receiving a.hooked leaf spring therein and a tapered cam positioned thereon, and a traverse cam shaft bushing having a V-shaped groove engageable with said hooked leaf spring being accommodated in said third link member, and a resilient means for rotating said cam shaft bushing clockwise or counter-clockwise, said cam shaft bushing being connected to said tra-verse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam and a holder plate provided with a bifurcated leaf spring Eor holdlng a collar of said traverse cam shaft from undernaath thereof and with a slit defined therein at a right angle -to a bifu~cated leaf spring in which sa.id tapered cam of said third link member is ~Ç~
inserted for shif-ting said traverse cam shaft year away from said traverse cam for disengagement therewith when said cam touches slidingly on the surface of the bifurca-ted leaf spring while said third lin~ member is shifted, and means for actuating said tra-verse cam shaft bushing which is connected to said traverse camguide cylinder to be rotated therewith. Suitably said means for actuating said traverse cam shaft bushing further includes a hooked end of said hooked leaf spring, said hooked end of said hooked leaf spring being in engagement wi-th said V-shaped groove 10` defined in said traverse cam shaft bushing. Desirably said oper-ating lever means comprises an operating lever connected to a lever gear mounted on a spool sleeve through a connecting means, an operating gear which is ro-tatably a-ttached to said casing, said operating gear being meshable with said lever gear and hav-ing a cylinder body around which a torsion spring is mounted,said cylinder body having an arm having an under surface thereof, said under surface having a tapered portion being engageable with said spool gear means for partial disengagement with said drive gear means operable by said handle, and said inside gear is pro-vided with a base having teeth thereon meshable with said operat-ing gear.
The present invention will be further illustrated by way of the accompanying drawings, in which:-
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Fig. 1 illustrates a side elevation view of a fishingreel according to one embodiment of this invention;
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Fig. 2 is a side elevation view of a fishing reel with a spool removed;
Fig. 3 is the same view as Fig. 2, with a pair of line guide arms in open state;
Fig. 4 illustrates a rear elevation view of Fig. 3;
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Fig. 5 snows an enlarged sectional view of Fig. 1 seen along the line v-v;
Fig. 6 is an enlarged side elevation vicw of Fig. 1 with a wall and a handle removed;
Fig., 7 is the same view as Fig. 6 with an operating lever pressed down;
Fig. 8 is an enlarged top plan view of an operating gear;
Fig. 9 illustrates a side elevation view of Fig. 8;
Fig. 10 is a side elevation view of an operating gear seen from a different direction;
Fig. 11 is an enlarged perspective view of an inside gear;
Fig. 12 is an enlarged plan view of a third lin~ mem-ber;
Fig. 13 illustrates a side view of Fig. 12;
Fig. 14 is an enlarged plan view of holder plate;
Fig. 15 is an enlarged side view of a traverse cam shaft bushing;
Fig. 16 illustrates a side elevation view of an assem-bly of a traverse cam shaft bushing, a third link member, a holder plate and a traverse cam shaft gear;
Fig. 17 illustrates a sectional view of an assembly of a traverse cam shaft gear and a traverse cam;
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Fig. 18 is a front view of a collar of a traverse cam shaft gear;
Fig. 19 is a front view of a collar of a traverse cam;
Fig. 20 illustrates a side elevation view of level winder suide means;
Fig. 21 is a top plan view of a level winder guide means; and Fig. 22 illustrates a sectional view of a level winder guide means.
~s shown in Fig.s 1 and 5, a spool shaft 8 on which a spool 6 rotatably arranged between a frame base 3 and 5 is mounted is supported by a sleeve 9 extended throu~h the frame base 3. The spool shaft 8 is provided at its one end with a spool gear 16 which is meshable with a drive gear 14 mounted on a handle shaft 12 connected to a handle 10, and at its other end with pro;ection 8' engageable with pro;ection 6' on the inner wall of spool 6.
A driving motor 18 is accommodated in a case (not shown) designed to be attached outside a side cover 4. A fishing reel generally designated by a letter R is fixed to a fishing rod 22 by means of a base member 20 and as will hereinafter be described, a pair of line guide arms 144 and 146 are arranged on a base stand 24.
Fig.s 6 and 7 illustrate a schematic side view of the frame base 3 with a side cover 2 and the handle 10 removed. An operating gear 26, as is shown in Figs. 8, 9 and 10, has a cylin-drical body 30 around which a torsion spring 28 is mounted, a fan shaped arm 32 the undersurface of which is formed with.a tapered portion 34 and gear teeth 38 arranged at the bo-ttom of the body ~2~i5~
30. The operating gear 26 is arranged rotatably on a shaft 36 spanning the side cover 2 and the frame base 3. The gear teeth 38 is in meshing engagement with both a lever gear 40 mounted on a sleeYe 9 of the spool shaft 8 and an inside gear 42 which will be explained in detail hereinafter. I'he tapered portion 34 of the fan shaped arm 32 is slidingly touchable on the surface of the spool gear 16 and the spool shaft 8 when -the opera-ting gear 26 is rotated thereby the spool gear 16 is thrown into partial disengagement with the driving gear 14. The inside gear 42, as best seen in Fig. ll, has a base 46 provided wi-th teeth 44 thereon and a curved arm 48 having a pro~ection 50 which engages insertably with a hole 72 defined in à third link member 70, which will hereinafter be explained in detail.
A ridge 52 having a vertical edge 53 is formed on one side of the base 46. The ridge 52 functions to prevent the base 46 from shifting back counter-clockwise with its vertical edge ~3 collided with an edge of a first link member 54 when the inside gear 42 is shifted clockwise. When the inside gear 42 is at a normal stationary position, as shown in Fig. 6, the vertical edge 53 is in engagement with a projectionC~protruded from the frame base 3.
The first link member 54 is provided with a slit 62 and a projection 68 disposed thereon while a second link member 60 which is slidingly arranged to the first link member 54 has a projection 66 arranged on into the slit 62 to be received thereby and a hole 64 in which the pro~ection 68 is also insertably received. A coil spring 58 is arranged between a pin 56 posi-tloned on the second link member 60 and another pin 56 protrudingfrom the frame base 3. Also, as shown in Fig. 6, the two lines members 54 and 60 are arranged in parallel with the inside gear 42.
At one end of the third link member 70, as bost seen in Fig.s 12 and 13, is defined a hole 72 into which the pro~ection ~s~
50 of the curved arm 48 of the inside gear 42 ls lnserted. At another end of the thir~ link member 70, ls defined a v-shaped groove 76 which receives a hooked leaf spring 70, is defined a V-shaped groove 76 which receives a hook~d leaf spring 78 therein, one end 80 thereof being fastened to the third link member 70 while the other hooked end ~2 of the leaf spring 78 being held inside the V-shaped groove 76. A cam 7~ which is positioned on the surface of the third link member 70 has a tapered portion slidably on a traverse cam shaft bushing 84 and under a holder plate 104.
The traverse cam shaft bushing 84, as best seen in Fig.
15, is provided with a V-shaped groove 86 which may be engageable with or disengageable from the hooked end 82 of the leaf spring 78 disposed in the V-shaped groove 76 defined in the third link member 70.
A coil spring 88 is spanning a projection 87 disposed on the frame base 3 and a projected arm 90 arranged unitarily with the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 which is also provided with a cylindrical body 96 engageable with an edge of a traverse cam guide cylinder 100. Numeral 92 is a traverse cam shaft on which a traverse cam 98 is mounted while 95 is a circumferential recess into which a body or collar 116 (Fig. 17) of a traverse cam shaft gear 94 is received.
A holder plate 104, as shown in Fig. 14, has a through hole 105 which receives the traverse cam shaft 92 on which is fixed mounted the collar 116 of the traverse cam shaft 94. A
leaf spring 108 provided with a bifurcated arm 106 is rotatably held by a shaft 112 which is supported by a pair of holder mem-bers 110 disposed on the holder plate 104. The bifurcated arm 106 supports the collar 116 from underneath thereof. A horizon-tal groove 114, defined in the holder plate 104 to intersect at right angles the bifurcated leaf spring 108, may receiv'e the cam 74 arranged on one side of the third link member 70.
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Fig, 16 illustrates a side elevation v,Lew of an assem-bly o~ the actuating members including the traverse cam shaf-t bushing 84 on which are positioned the third link member 709 and the holder plate 104 one after another. the tapered cam 74 of the third link member 70 is in engag~ment with the groove 114 defined in the holder plate 104 while the hooked end 82 of the leaf spring 7~ positioned ln the V-shaped groove 76 thereof is in engagement with the V-shaped groove 86 arranged in the traverse cam shaft bushing 84.
In Fig. 17, the traverse cam shaft gear 94 fixed to the end of the traverse cam shaft 92 is provided with a collar 116 pro;ected therefrom. A rectangular 120 is defined in the collar 116. Another collar 122 arranged at the end of the traverse cam 98 faces toward the collar 116. the collar 122 iS provided with a rectangular projection 124 which is engageable with the groove 120 of the collar 116. Whenever the groove 120 is disengaged from the projection 124, both the traverse cam 98 and the tra-verse cam shaft gear 94 may be rotated free.
A level winder mechanism of this invention will now be explained referring to Fig.s 20, 21 and 22. A level winder guide means is generally indicated by numeral 128 comprises a cylindri-cal body 130 mounted slantwise over the traverse cam guide cylin-der 100, a slant arm 132 unitarily formed with the body 130, a line guide arm holder 134 horizontally arranged on the slant arm 132 and having a pair of pins 136 positioned therethrough, the pins 136 being retractable -through the holder 134 by means of resilient means (not shown) and having tapered ends 138 respec-tively, and a cap 140 in which is accommodated a projection 142 which is arranged to be engaged in the groove 99 of the traverse cam 98 through a hole 102 defined in the guide cylinder 100.
Bent end portions 148 of a pair line guide arms 144 and 146 are insertably held in holes 149 disposed in the base stand 24 posi-tioned on the base member 20. The lower end of a pair of llne guide arms 144 and 146 are arranged through a pair of leaf springs 150 fit-ted to the base stand 2~ by rneans of holder means 151 to be resiliently held thereby respectively in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms 14~ and 146 may be shifted laterally in opposi-te directions to form a shape of let-ter v, as shown in Fig. 3, the details of which will be explained hereinafter.
Numeral 7 is a connecting means attached to the lever gear 40, which permits the rotation thereof with the cooperation of an operating lever 1. Numeral 97 is a leaf spring resiliently ; pushing the traverse cam shaft gear 94 toward the traverse cam 98. Numeral 19 is a motor pulley; 17, a motor drive belt.
The operatio~ of the level winder mechanism will now be explained.
When an operating lever 1 is pressed down, as shown in Fig. 7, the lever gear 40 is rotated counter-clockwise. Simulta-neously the operating gear 26 meshes with the lever gear 40 is rotated clockwise as shown by an arrow against a biasing force of the torsion spring 28 mounted around the body 30. The inside gear 42 meshing with the operating gear 26 is in turn shifted in the direction as shown by an arrow. The third link member 70 provided with the hole 72 into which the projection 50 of the inside gear 42 is inserted is also shifted accordingly.
More par-ticular operation of the first and the second link members 54 and 60 will now be explained. The link members are designed to keep the inside gear 42 at a predetermined posi-tion. Whenever the inside gear 42 is shifted in the direction ofan arrow as shown in Fig. 7, an end portion of the first link member 54 which is arranged in parallel with the inside gear ridge 52 is shifted downward along the vertical ridge end 53 to stop the inside gear 42 from shifting backward by the collision between the ridge end 53 and the end of the first link member 54.
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first link member 5~. The member 60 is ~hiftable ayainst the movement of the inside gear 42 by means of biasing force of the coil spring 58 through the hole 64 which shif-table holds the pro-jection 68 of the first link member 5~ and the projection 66 arranged shiftably in the hole 62 of the first link member 54 whereby the end portion of the firs-t link member 5~ is assisted to collide slidingly, with the ridge e.nd 53 of the ridge 52 as shown in Fig. 7.
When the driving gear 14 is rotated clockwise as by the rotation of the handle 10, as heretoforè explained, one of the projections 13 arranged on a holder plate 11 fixed mounted on the driving gear shaft 12 touches slidably on the corner 61 of the second link member 60 to shift it to the left as seen facing to Fig.s 6 and 7, whereby the end of the first link member 54 engag-ing with the ridge end 53 is lifted upward to release the engage-ment therewith through hole 64, the pro-Jection 68, the hole 62 and the projection 66, as was explained heretofore. The inside gear 42 may become freely shiftable together with the third link member 70.
When the third link member 70 is thus shifted in the direction shown by an arrow as seen in Fig.s 6 and 7, the tapered cam 74 of the third link member 70 which is held in the slit 114 of the holder plate 104 is shifted in such a way that the tapered portion thereof touches slidably, starting from the lowermost portion thereof up to the topmost portion, on the leaf spring 108 rotatably positioned on the holder plate 104 via the shaft 112 rotatably supported by the holder member 110; and as soon as the topmost portion of the cam 74 touches on the leaf spring 108 sup-porting the traverse cam shaft gear collar 116 from underneath by means of the bifurcated portion 106, the leaf spring 108 is shifted together with the collar 116 away from the traverse cam 98 with result that the traverse cam shaft gear 94 is disengaged from the traverse cam 98 (Fig. 17) whereby traverse cam shaft gear 94 may become semi-engaged with the driving gear 14.
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AS the V-shaped yroove ~6 of the transverse carn shaft gear bushing 8~ iS in engagement with the hook end 82 of the leaf spring 78 disposed in the third lin~ member 70, the traverse carn shaft gear bushing 8~ iS ro-tated clockwise, facing to Fig. 6, on the traverse cam shaEt gear 94 in accordance with -the shifting of the third link member 70 to the direction shown b~ an arrow, -thus explained, against the biasing force of the coil ~pring 8~ and as soon as the third link member 70 is shifted a certain distance, the engagement between the hooked end 82 and the V-shaped groove 10 86 iS released thereby the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 is restored to its former position to be rotated counter-clockwise by dint of elastic force of the coil spring 88. The movement of the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 iS transmitted to the traverse cam guide cylinder 100 engaged therewith.
Whenever the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 is thus rotated clockwise, before the release of engagement between the hooked end 82 and the V-shaped groove 86, the traverse cam shaft guide cylinder 100 rotatably mounted on the traverse cam 98 and 20 connected to the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 iS also rotated with the cylinderical body 130 of the level winder guide member 128 to the direction of letter A as shown by an arrow correspond-ing to the rotation of the bushing 84 ( see Fig. 20). whereby the line guide arm holder 134 iS shifted away from the line guide arms 144 and 146.
The guide arms 144 and 146 which are held in parallel by a pair of rotatable pins 136,136 accommodated in the level guide arm holder 134 may be released from the holding by the pins 136 due to the rotation of the holder 134 may be released from the holding by pins 136 due to the rotation of the holder 134 away from the line guide arms 144 and 146 to hereby be shifted to from a letter V by means of resilient force of the leaf spring lS0 fitted around the lower end of the guids arm 144 and 146 35 positioned on the base stand. In this state, as shown ~in Fig. 3, a fishing line wound around the spool 888 may be left out ~2~
smoothly over the line guide cover 137. With the further shift-ing of the third link member 70, as explained heretofore, the engagement of the hook end 82 of the leaf spring 78 disposed in the V-shaped groove 76 defined in the link mernber 70 with the V-shaped groove a6 of the traverse cam shaft bushing 8~ isreleased. Therefore, the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 returns to its former position together with the traverse cam guide cylinder 100 rotating in the direction of arrow ~. Simultane-ously with the rotation of the handle 10, the driving gear 14 which is partially meshed with the traverse cam shaft gear 94 is rotated in the same direction whereby the partial meshing engage-ment between the two gears 14 and 9~ is restored to a full mesh-ing therebetween with the result that the collar 116 of the tra-verse cam shaft gear 94 is brought into enyagement with the col-lar 124 of the traverse cam 98. A biasing force of a leaf spring 97 aids a quick shifting of the traverse cam shaft gear 94 back to a full engagement with the traverse cam 98. The rotation of the handle 10 is thus transmitted to traverse cam 98 via the tra-verse can shaft gear 94. With the rotation of -the traverse cam shaft gear 94, the traverse cam 98 is rotated. The cylindrical body 130 of the level winder guide means 128 is shifted recipro-cally in lateral direction sliding over the traverse cam cylinder 100 with the pro~ection 142 which is accommodated in the cap 140 7 and pro~ected through the hole 102 defined in the guide cylinder 200 to touch slidably in the groove 99 disposed in the traverse cam 98 which is rotating.
While the body 130 mounted over the traverse cam guide ` cylinder 100 makes a reciprocal lateral movement along the tra-: 30 verse cam 98, the level guide arm holder 134 starts to accommo-date a line guide arm 144 and 146 one by one so that the arms 144 and 146 are arranged in parallel on the line guide arm holder - 134, as shown in Fig.s 1, 2 and 3.
he accommodation process of line guide armS 144 and 146 by the line guide arm holder 134 will now be described.
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As best seen in Fig. 3, when the holder 134 is posi-tioned at outermost riyht end, the retrac-table pin 136 iS located adjacent ou-tside of the line guide arm 1~4 and while the holder 134 iS shifted latera].ly to the leftmost end, as heretofore explained, the line guide arm 146 slides over the tapered end 138 of the retractable pin 136 to be brought into right side thereof;
when the line guide arm holder 134 iS located in the middle of the cylinder 100, in the same manner, line guide arms 144,146 are received by the line guide arm holder 134 one by one. A pair of line guide arms 144 and 146 are flnally accommodated in parallel as shown in Fig . 2. The tapered end 13 ~ of the retractable pin 136 helps accommodation of the line guide arms 144 and 146 onto the line guide arm holder 134 by a smooth sliding of the arms 144 and 146 over the pins 136.
Simultaneously with the rotation of the handle 10, as heretofore explained, the driving gear 14 which is partially meshing with the spool gear 16 iS restored to a full meshing therewith, whereby the rotation of driving gear 14 is transmitted to the spool shaft 8 via the spool gear 16 to thereby shift the spool shaft 8 toward the projection 6 ' of the spool 6 such that the projection 8' of the spool shaft 8 is brought into engagement with the projection 6 ', whereby the spool 6 becomes rotatable by the shaft 8. A fishing line is s~oothly wound in around the spool 6, through a gap thus created b~ a pair of parallel line guide arms 144 and 146, as best seen in Fig.s 2 and 4, while the line guide arm holder 34 is reciprocally moving in lateral direc-tion, and over a line guide cover 137.
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Fig. 1 illustrates a side elevation view of a fishingreel according to one embodiment of this invention;
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Fig. 2 is a side elevation view of a fishing reel with a spool removed;
Fig. 3 is the same view as Fig. 2, with a pair of line guide arms in open state;
Fig. 4 illustrates a rear elevation view of Fig. 3;
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Fig. 5 snows an enlarged sectional view of Fig. 1 seen along the line v-v;
Fig. 6 is an enlarged side elevation vicw of Fig. 1 with a wall and a handle removed;
Fig., 7 is the same view as Fig. 6 with an operating lever pressed down;
Fig. 8 is an enlarged top plan view of an operating gear;
Fig. 9 illustrates a side elevation view of Fig. 8;
Fig. 10 is a side elevation view of an operating gear seen from a different direction;
Fig. 11 is an enlarged perspective view of an inside gear;
Fig. 12 is an enlarged plan view of a third lin~ mem-ber;
Fig. 13 illustrates a side view of Fig. 12;
Fig. 14 is an enlarged plan view of holder plate;
Fig. 15 is an enlarged side view of a traverse cam shaft bushing;
Fig. 16 illustrates a side elevation view of an assem-bly of a traverse cam shaft bushing, a third link member, a holder plate and a traverse cam shaft gear;
Fig. 17 illustrates a sectional view of an assembly of a traverse cam shaft gear and a traverse cam;
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Fig. 18 is a front view of a collar of a traverse cam shaft gear;
Fig. 19 is a front view of a collar of a traverse cam;
Fig. 20 illustrates a side elevation view of level winder suide means;
Fig. 21 is a top plan view of a level winder guide means; and Fig. 22 illustrates a sectional view of a level winder guide means.
~s shown in Fig.s 1 and 5, a spool shaft 8 on which a spool 6 rotatably arranged between a frame base 3 and 5 is mounted is supported by a sleeve 9 extended throu~h the frame base 3. The spool shaft 8 is provided at its one end with a spool gear 16 which is meshable with a drive gear 14 mounted on a handle shaft 12 connected to a handle 10, and at its other end with pro;ection 8' engageable with pro;ection 6' on the inner wall of spool 6.
A driving motor 18 is accommodated in a case (not shown) designed to be attached outside a side cover 4. A fishing reel generally designated by a letter R is fixed to a fishing rod 22 by means of a base member 20 and as will hereinafter be described, a pair of line guide arms 144 and 146 are arranged on a base stand 24.
Fig.s 6 and 7 illustrate a schematic side view of the frame base 3 with a side cover 2 and the handle 10 removed. An operating gear 26, as is shown in Figs. 8, 9 and 10, has a cylin-drical body 30 around which a torsion spring 28 is mounted, a fan shaped arm 32 the undersurface of which is formed with.a tapered portion 34 and gear teeth 38 arranged at the bo-ttom of the body ~2~i5~
30. The operating gear 26 is arranged rotatably on a shaft 36 spanning the side cover 2 and the frame base 3. The gear teeth 38 is in meshing engagement with both a lever gear 40 mounted on a sleeYe 9 of the spool shaft 8 and an inside gear 42 which will be explained in detail hereinafter. I'he tapered portion 34 of the fan shaped arm 32 is slidingly touchable on the surface of the spool gear 16 and the spool shaft 8 when -the opera-ting gear 26 is rotated thereby the spool gear 16 is thrown into partial disengagement with the driving gear 14. The inside gear 42, as best seen in Fig. ll, has a base 46 provided wi-th teeth 44 thereon and a curved arm 48 having a pro~ection 50 which engages insertably with a hole 72 defined in à third link member 70, which will hereinafter be explained in detail.
A ridge 52 having a vertical edge 53 is formed on one side of the base 46. The ridge 52 functions to prevent the base 46 from shifting back counter-clockwise with its vertical edge ~3 collided with an edge of a first link member 54 when the inside gear 42 is shifted clockwise. When the inside gear 42 is at a normal stationary position, as shown in Fig. 6, the vertical edge 53 is in engagement with a projectionC~protruded from the frame base 3.
The first link member 54 is provided with a slit 62 and a projection 68 disposed thereon while a second link member 60 which is slidingly arranged to the first link member 54 has a projection 66 arranged on into the slit 62 to be received thereby and a hole 64 in which the pro~ection 68 is also insertably received. A coil spring 58 is arranged between a pin 56 posi-tloned on the second link member 60 and another pin 56 protrudingfrom the frame base 3. Also, as shown in Fig. 6, the two lines members 54 and 60 are arranged in parallel with the inside gear 42.
At one end of the third link member 70, as bost seen in Fig.s 12 and 13, is defined a hole 72 into which the pro~ection ~s~
50 of the curved arm 48 of the inside gear 42 ls lnserted. At another end of the thir~ link member 70, ls defined a v-shaped groove 76 which receives a hooked leaf spring 70, is defined a V-shaped groove 76 which receives a hook~d leaf spring 78 therein, one end 80 thereof being fastened to the third link member 70 while the other hooked end ~2 of the leaf spring 78 being held inside the V-shaped groove 76. A cam 7~ which is positioned on the surface of the third link member 70 has a tapered portion slidably on a traverse cam shaft bushing 84 and under a holder plate 104.
The traverse cam shaft bushing 84, as best seen in Fig.
15, is provided with a V-shaped groove 86 which may be engageable with or disengageable from the hooked end 82 of the leaf spring 78 disposed in the V-shaped groove 76 defined in the third link member 70.
A coil spring 88 is spanning a projection 87 disposed on the frame base 3 and a projected arm 90 arranged unitarily with the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 which is also provided with a cylindrical body 96 engageable with an edge of a traverse cam guide cylinder 100. Numeral 92 is a traverse cam shaft on which a traverse cam 98 is mounted while 95 is a circumferential recess into which a body or collar 116 (Fig. 17) of a traverse cam shaft gear 94 is received.
A holder plate 104, as shown in Fig. 14, has a through hole 105 which receives the traverse cam shaft 92 on which is fixed mounted the collar 116 of the traverse cam shaft 94. A
leaf spring 108 provided with a bifurcated arm 106 is rotatably held by a shaft 112 which is supported by a pair of holder mem-bers 110 disposed on the holder plate 104. The bifurcated arm 106 supports the collar 116 from underneath thereof. A horizon-tal groove 114, defined in the holder plate 104 to intersect at right angles the bifurcated leaf spring 108, may receiv'e the cam 74 arranged on one side of the third link member 70.
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Fig, 16 illustrates a side elevation v,Lew of an assem-bly o~ the actuating members including the traverse cam shaf-t bushing 84 on which are positioned the third link member 709 and the holder plate 104 one after another. the tapered cam 74 of the third link member 70 is in engag~ment with the groove 114 defined in the holder plate 104 while the hooked end 82 of the leaf spring 7~ positioned ln the V-shaped groove 76 thereof is in engagement with the V-shaped groove 86 arranged in the traverse cam shaft bushing 84.
In Fig. 17, the traverse cam shaft gear 94 fixed to the end of the traverse cam shaft 92 is provided with a collar 116 pro;ected therefrom. A rectangular 120 is defined in the collar 116. Another collar 122 arranged at the end of the traverse cam 98 faces toward the collar 116. the collar 122 iS provided with a rectangular projection 124 which is engageable with the groove 120 of the collar 116. Whenever the groove 120 is disengaged from the projection 124, both the traverse cam 98 and the tra-verse cam shaft gear 94 may be rotated free.
A level winder mechanism of this invention will now be explained referring to Fig.s 20, 21 and 22. A level winder guide means is generally indicated by numeral 128 comprises a cylindri-cal body 130 mounted slantwise over the traverse cam guide cylin-der 100, a slant arm 132 unitarily formed with the body 130, a line guide arm holder 134 horizontally arranged on the slant arm 132 and having a pair of pins 136 positioned therethrough, the pins 136 being retractable -through the holder 134 by means of resilient means (not shown) and having tapered ends 138 respec-tively, and a cap 140 in which is accommodated a projection 142 which is arranged to be engaged in the groove 99 of the traverse cam 98 through a hole 102 defined in the guide cylinder 100.
Bent end portions 148 of a pair line guide arms 144 and 146 are insertably held in holes 149 disposed in the base stand 24 posi-tioned on the base member 20. The lower end of a pair of llne guide arms 144 and 146 are arranged through a pair of leaf springs 150 fit-ted to the base stand 2~ by rneans of holder means 151 to be resiliently held thereby respectively in such a way that the upper end of the line guide arms 14~ and 146 may be shifted laterally in opposi-te directions to form a shape of let-ter v, as shown in Fig. 3, the details of which will be explained hereinafter.
Numeral 7 is a connecting means attached to the lever gear 40, which permits the rotation thereof with the cooperation of an operating lever 1. Numeral 97 is a leaf spring resiliently ; pushing the traverse cam shaft gear 94 toward the traverse cam 98. Numeral 19 is a motor pulley; 17, a motor drive belt.
The operatio~ of the level winder mechanism will now be explained.
When an operating lever 1 is pressed down, as shown in Fig. 7, the lever gear 40 is rotated counter-clockwise. Simulta-neously the operating gear 26 meshes with the lever gear 40 is rotated clockwise as shown by an arrow against a biasing force of the torsion spring 28 mounted around the body 30. The inside gear 42 meshing with the operating gear 26 is in turn shifted in the direction as shown by an arrow. The third link member 70 provided with the hole 72 into which the projection 50 of the inside gear 42 is inserted is also shifted accordingly.
More par-ticular operation of the first and the second link members 54 and 60 will now be explained. The link members are designed to keep the inside gear 42 at a predetermined posi-tion. Whenever the inside gear 42 is shifted in the direction ofan arrow as shown in Fig. 7, an end portion of the first link member 54 which is arranged in parallel with the inside gear ridge 52 is shifted downward along the vertical ridge end 53 to stop the inside gear 42 from shifting backward by the collision between the ridge end 53 and the end of the first link member 54.
The second link member 60 also aids the holding operation of the ~2~5~
first link member 5~. The member 60 is ~hiftable ayainst the movement of the inside gear 42 by means of biasing force of the coil spring 58 through the hole 64 which shif-table holds the pro-jection 68 of the first link member 5~ and the projection 66 arranged shiftably in the hole 62 of the first link member 54 whereby the end portion of the firs-t link member 5~ is assisted to collide slidingly, with the ridge e.nd 53 of the ridge 52 as shown in Fig. 7.
When the driving gear 14 is rotated clockwise as by the rotation of the handle 10, as heretoforè explained, one of the projections 13 arranged on a holder plate 11 fixed mounted on the driving gear shaft 12 touches slidably on the corner 61 of the second link member 60 to shift it to the left as seen facing to Fig.s 6 and 7, whereby the end of the first link member 54 engag-ing with the ridge end 53 is lifted upward to release the engage-ment therewith through hole 64, the pro-Jection 68, the hole 62 and the projection 66, as was explained heretofore. The inside gear 42 may become freely shiftable together with the third link member 70.
When the third link member 70 is thus shifted in the direction shown by an arrow as seen in Fig.s 6 and 7, the tapered cam 74 of the third link member 70 which is held in the slit 114 of the holder plate 104 is shifted in such a way that the tapered portion thereof touches slidably, starting from the lowermost portion thereof up to the topmost portion, on the leaf spring 108 rotatably positioned on the holder plate 104 via the shaft 112 rotatably supported by the holder member 110; and as soon as the topmost portion of the cam 74 touches on the leaf spring 108 sup-porting the traverse cam shaft gear collar 116 from underneath by means of the bifurcated portion 106, the leaf spring 108 is shifted together with the collar 116 away from the traverse cam 98 with result that the traverse cam shaft gear 94 is disengaged from the traverse cam 98 (Fig. 17) whereby traverse cam shaft gear 94 may become semi-engaged with the driving gear 14.
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AS the V-shaped yroove ~6 of the transverse carn shaft gear bushing 8~ iS in engagement with the hook end 82 of the leaf spring 78 disposed in the third lin~ member 70, the traverse carn shaft gear bushing 8~ iS ro-tated clockwise, facing to Fig. 6, on the traverse cam shaEt gear 94 in accordance with -the shifting of the third link member 70 to the direction shown b~ an arrow, -thus explained, against the biasing force of the coil ~pring 8~ and as soon as the third link member 70 is shifted a certain distance, the engagement between the hooked end 82 and the V-shaped groove 10 86 iS released thereby the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 is restored to its former position to be rotated counter-clockwise by dint of elastic force of the coil spring 88. The movement of the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 iS transmitted to the traverse cam guide cylinder 100 engaged therewith.
Whenever the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 is thus rotated clockwise, before the release of engagement between the hooked end 82 and the V-shaped groove 86, the traverse cam shaft guide cylinder 100 rotatably mounted on the traverse cam 98 and 20 connected to the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 iS also rotated with the cylinderical body 130 of the level winder guide member 128 to the direction of letter A as shown by an arrow correspond-ing to the rotation of the bushing 84 ( see Fig. 20). whereby the line guide arm holder 134 iS shifted away from the line guide arms 144 and 146.
The guide arms 144 and 146 which are held in parallel by a pair of rotatable pins 136,136 accommodated in the level guide arm holder 134 may be released from the holding by the pins 136 due to the rotation of the holder 134 may be released from the holding by pins 136 due to the rotation of the holder 134 away from the line guide arms 144 and 146 to hereby be shifted to from a letter V by means of resilient force of the leaf spring lS0 fitted around the lower end of the guids arm 144 and 146 35 positioned on the base stand. In this state, as shown ~in Fig. 3, a fishing line wound around the spool 888 may be left out ~2~
smoothly over the line guide cover 137. With the further shift-ing of the third link member 70, as explained heretofore, the engagement of the hook end 82 of the leaf spring 78 disposed in the V-shaped groove 76 defined in the link mernber 70 with the V-shaped groove a6 of the traverse cam shaft bushing 8~ isreleased. Therefore, the traverse cam shaft bushing 84 returns to its former position together with the traverse cam guide cylinder 100 rotating in the direction of arrow ~. Simultane-ously with the rotation of the handle 10, the driving gear 14 which is partially meshed with the traverse cam shaft gear 94 is rotated in the same direction whereby the partial meshing engage-ment between the two gears 14 and 9~ is restored to a full mesh-ing therebetween with the result that the collar 116 of the tra-verse cam shaft gear 94 is brought into enyagement with the col-lar 124 of the traverse cam 98. A biasing force of a leaf spring 97 aids a quick shifting of the traverse cam shaft gear 94 back to a full engagement with the traverse cam 98. The rotation of the handle 10 is thus transmitted to traverse cam 98 via the tra-verse can shaft gear 94. With the rotation of -the traverse cam shaft gear 94, the traverse cam 98 is rotated. The cylindrical body 130 of the level winder guide means 128 is shifted recipro-cally in lateral direction sliding over the traverse cam cylinder 100 with the pro~ection 142 which is accommodated in the cap 140 7 and pro~ected through the hole 102 defined in the guide cylinder 200 to touch slidably in the groove 99 disposed in the traverse cam 98 which is rotating.
While the body 130 mounted over the traverse cam guide ` cylinder 100 makes a reciprocal lateral movement along the tra-: 30 verse cam 98, the level guide arm holder 134 starts to accommo-date a line guide arm 144 and 146 one by one so that the arms 144 and 146 are arranged in parallel on the line guide arm holder - 134, as shown in Fig.s 1, 2 and 3.
he accommodation process of line guide armS 144 and 146 by the line guide arm holder 134 will now be described.
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As best seen in Fig. 3, when the holder 134 is posi-tioned at outermost riyht end, the retrac-table pin 136 iS located adjacent ou-tside of the line guide arm 1~4 and while the holder 134 iS shifted latera].ly to the leftmost end, as heretofore explained, the line guide arm 146 slides over the tapered end 138 of the retractable pin 136 to be brought into right side thereof;
when the line guide arm holder 134 iS located in the middle of the cylinder 100, in the same manner, line guide arms 144,146 are received by the line guide arm holder 134 one by one. A pair of line guide arms 144 and 146 are flnally accommodated in parallel as shown in Fig . 2. The tapered end 13 ~ of the retractable pin 136 helps accommodation of the line guide arms 144 and 146 onto the line guide arm holder 134 by a smooth sliding of the arms 144 and 146 over the pins 136.
Simultaneously with the rotation of the handle 10, as heretofore explained, the driving gear 14 which is partially meshing with the spool gear 16 iS restored to a full meshing therewith, whereby the rotation of driving gear 14 is transmitted to the spool shaft 8 via the spool gear 16 to thereby shift the spool shaft 8 toward the projection 6 ' of the spool 6 such that the projection 8' of the spool shaft 8 is brought into engagement with the projection 6 ', whereby the spool 6 becomes rotatable by the shaft 8. A fishing line is s~oothly wound in around the spool 6, through a gap thus created b~ a pair of parallel line guide arms 144 and 146, as best seen in Fig.s 2 and 4, while the line guide arm holder 34 is reciprocally moving in lateral direc-tion, and over a line guide cover 137.
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Claims (4)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A double-bearing fishing reel comprising a casing;
a handle shaft rotatably attached to said casing; a handle for rotating said handle shaft attached thereto; a drive gear means mounted on said handle shaft; a spool shaft rotatably and axially slidably mounted on said casing; a spool and a spool gear means mounted on said spool shaft and meshable with said drive gear means; an operating lever means attached to said casing for engaging said spool gear means with said drive gear means for causing said spool to be driven by rotation of said handle and for disengaging said spool gear means from said drive gear means for causing said spool to be freely rotatable on said spool shaft; a traverse cam shaft rotatably and axially slidably mounted on said casing; a traverse cam and a traverse cam gear means mounted on said traverse cam shaft, said traverse cam gear means being meshable with said drive gear means; a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam; a level winder including a level winder guide means mounted on and rotatable with said traverse cam guide cylinder, said level winder guide means being laterally reciprocal along said traverse cam cylin-der, said level winder guide means having an integral slant arm, a line guide arm holder on said slant arm, and a pair of retractable pins reciprocally held in said line guide arm holder;
a pair of line guide arms, each said line guide arm having first and second ends, each said first end being rotatably attached to said casing, and each said second end being engageable by said pair of retractable pins for holding said pair of line guide arms in parallel when said level winder guide means is reciprocated along said traverse cam cylinder; biasing means for biasing said pair of line guide arms apart to form a substantially V-shape when said pair of line guide arms are not held in parallel by said pair of said retractable pins;l and means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam for reciprocally moving said level winder guide means along said traverse cam cylinder when said cam gear means meshes with said drive gear mean for rotation by said handle.
a handle shaft rotatably attached to said casing; a handle for rotating said handle shaft attached thereto; a drive gear means mounted on said handle shaft; a spool shaft rotatably and axially slidably mounted on said casing; a spool and a spool gear means mounted on said spool shaft and meshable with said drive gear means; an operating lever means attached to said casing for engaging said spool gear means with said drive gear means for causing said spool to be driven by rotation of said handle and for disengaging said spool gear means from said drive gear means for causing said spool to be freely rotatable on said spool shaft; a traverse cam shaft rotatably and axially slidably mounted on said casing; a traverse cam and a traverse cam gear means mounted on said traverse cam shaft, said traverse cam gear means being meshable with said drive gear means; a traverse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam; a level winder including a level winder guide means mounted on and rotatable with said traverse cam guide cylinder, said level winder guide means being laterally reciprocal along said traverse cam cylin-der, said level winder guide means having an integral slant arm, a line guide arm holder on said slant arm, and a pair of retractable pins reciprocally held in said line guide arm holder;
a pair of line guide arms, each said line guide arm having first and second ends, each said first end being rotatably attached to said casing, and each said second end being engageable by said pair of retractable pins for holding said pair of line guide arms in parallel when said level winder guide means is reciprocated along said traverse cam cylinder; biasing means for biasing said pair of line guide arms apart to form a substantially V-shape when said pair of line guide arms are not held in parallel by said pair of said retractable pins;l and means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam for reciprocally moving said level winder guide means along said traverse cam cylinder when said cam gear means meshes with said drive gear mean for rotation by said handle.
2. A fishing reel as in claim 1, wherein said means for engaging and disengaging said traverse cam gear means with said traverse cam includes an inside gear attached to said casing and having a curved arm with a projection thereon, and a third link member having at one edge thereof a hole into which said projection of said curved arm of said inside gear is inserted, said third link member having at the other edge thereof a V-shaped groove receiving a hooked leaf spring therein and a tapered cam positioned thereon, and a traverse cam shaft bushing having a V-shaped groove engageable with said hooked leaf spring being accommodated in said third link member, and a resilient means for rotating said cam shaft bushing clockwise or counter-clockwise, said cam shaft bushing being connected to said tra-verse cam guide cylinder mounted on said traverse cam and a holder plate provided with a bifurcated leaf spring for holding a collar of said traverse cam shaft from underneath thereof and with a slit defined therein at a right angle to a bifurcated leaf spring in which said tapered cam of said third link member is inserted for shifting said traverse cam shaft gear away from said traverse cam for disengagement therewith when said cam touches slidingly on the surface of the bifurcated leaf spring while said third link member is shifted, and means for actuating said tra-verse cam shaft bushing which is connected to said traverse cam guide cylinder to be rotated therewith.
3. A fishing reel as in claim 2, wherein said means for actuating said traverse cam shaft bushing further includes a hooked end of said hooked leaf spring, said hooked end of said hooked leaf spring being in engagement with said V-shaped groove defined in said traverse cam shaft bushing.
4. A fishing reel as in claim 2, wherein said operat-ing lever means comprises an operating lever connected to a lever gear mounted on a spool sleeve through a connecting means, an operating gear which is rotatably attached to said casing, said operating gear being meshable with said lever gear and having a cylinder body around which a torsion spring is mounted, said cylinder body having an arm having an under surface thereof, said under surface having a tapered portion being engageable with said spool gear means for partial disengagement with said drive gear means operable by said handle, and said inside gear is provided with a base having teeth thereon meshable with said operating gear.
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