FR2765074A1 - Line guide for interior of hollow fishing rod - Google Patents

Abstract

The guide is mounted on the inside of the hollow rod (3) and is formed of micro-balls of hard material in a matrix of flexible synthetic resin (2). The line slides tangentially over the balls, while the hollow fishing rod can deform due to external. The balls can be of ceramic. The guide can be formed as an open or closed ring. Alternatively, it can be of helical shape.

Description

In general, fishing rods to cast a lure, a bait, consist of one or more elements fitted into each other, carrying at their outer periphery smooth rings of great hardness allowing the wire wound on the reel of the reel and crossing these rings to slide without friction when casting the bait. It is clear that the harder and more polished the ring, the better the "sliding" of the fine wire going from some
15/100 to 50 / lOOmm depending on whether you are fishing for trout or catfish, which conditions the distance of the throw as much as the ease of return during the "rewinding" of the line on the reel drum during a catch of fish or catch return.

The fishermen are demanding on this quality of glide, not only because it conditions the length of their "throw" of the lure, but also because it conditions the wear of the line which, if it deteriorates, comes after a few "throws" to seize "on the ring.

Ring manufacturers have thus imagined making rings of great hardness which they come to set in another metal ring, itself fixed to a "tab" which, most often, is applied, then "knotted" on the outside of the rod
To be of good quality, the ring manufacturers therefore sought the most qualified materials to ensure this set of qualities necessary to ensure good sliding: high resistance to abrasion, corrosion, humidity, hardness, as high as possible and the lowest density possible so as not to weigh down the rod.

Should we remember here that if metallic materials which are already relatively hard but still deformable see their hardness on the BRINELL scale, very hard, non-deformable materials are measured on the MOHS scale.

Thus, at both ends of this MOHS scale are talc at level 1, but diamond at the highest level, level 10, since diamond "lines up" all of the above materials, at lower scales. Thus at the intermediate levels, we will find for example hard earthenware, then very hard earthenware at levels 4 and 5, carbon embedded in resins at levels 2 and 3, but and especially at levels 7 and 8, these new, very hard materials, ceramics, alumina silicate, used by manufacturers of good quality rings for fishing rods.

The counterpart, if not the disadvantage in the particular case, of these very hard rings is that they do not deform. Thus they cannot be introduced inside an internal wire rod, because, not deforming, they would prevent the rod element from being ovalized during its bending generated by the whiplash of the throw or the return of the fish weighing in the end.

Consequently, concentrations of stresses coming to accumulate at the level of these rings in the materials constituting the cane (glass fibers, carbon, aramids or others), the latter would break.

The object of the invention is to overcome these major drawbacks by making it possible to manufacture an inner wire rod carrying "skids" which can have various shapes, such as that of a ring, made of very hard materials located at the highest levels of the MOHS scale, 7 and 8, on which the fishing line will slide across the so-called inner rod, the latter remaining flexible.

Thus the invention is characterized in that the "shoe", for example in the form of a ring, is made of a composite mixture consisting of very smooth and very hard balls of ceramic, alumina silicate or the like, embedded in a resin having an elongation sufficient not to thwart the elasticity, therefore the ovalization of the rod when it is stressed by forces.

To better understand the invention, there will be described below examples of execution, without limitation, in the appended drawings in which FIG. I represents a portion of fishing rod element carrying two pads (1) and ( 2), here in the form of rings, FIG. 2 represents a section of the previous element perpendicular to its axis at the level of.

ring-shaped pad (2). Figure 3 shows a section of the same cane element.

level of the ring-shaped pad, this element being ovalized during a stress on the length.

Figure 4 shows the cutaway section of the same element in its longitudinal direction and crossed by 2 fishing lines.

According to the example of FIG. 1, the cane element portion is constituted by a tube (3) made of fibers or glass or carbon fabrics impregnated with hardened resin, inside which the pads (1 ) and (2) in the form of a ring made up of a composite formed of a deforable adhesive coming to retain microbeads of very high hardness, 7 and more on the MOHS scale, and perfectly smooth. The nylon fishing line (4), for example with a diameter ranging from 15 to 50/100, slides in tangent at (a) and (b) a ball of very small diameter varying on average 2/100 to 10 / 100mm as required.

It will indeed be understood that it may be advantageous to vary the diameter of the balls coming to tangent the wire, the diameter of which may also vary according to the weight of the fish to be caught.

According to the example of Figures 2 and 3 which are sections perpendicular to the axis of the element, the tube (1) of fibers or fabric supports the composite ring (2) of microbeads embedded in the resin on which comes pass the nylon 3 thread which tangents in (a) and (b) the microbeads of the composite pad.

In accordance with the invention, it can be seen in FIG. 3, a crushed, oblong section perpendicular to the axis of the rod element then in fishing action, bent under the force causing this oblong crushing, that the composite (2 ) "ball-resin" is deformed without causing the rod element to break, while retaining its sliding characteristic since the wire (3) always comes to tangent in (b) the microbead.

In Figure 4, which shows a section, cut away, longitudinal of the same fiber element, various shapes of pads appear. Thus small pads (1) in the form of circular spots arranged in staggered rows support a fishing line (2).

Similarly, a shoe (3), loaded with microbeads, comes to support in (a) a second fishing line
4. This skate has a "spiral" shape of an open ring along the element.

Finally, pads (5) and (6) in the form of an open ring portion staggered along
of the element support the fishing line (2).

Claims (8)

 1) Inner shoe for flexible and deformable tubular element of fishing rod with an inner wire, characterized in that it consists of hard microbeads embedded in a flexible resin, allowing both the fishing line to slide on said pad by coming to tangent the hard microbeads of the latter, and to the flexible tubular element carrying the said pad to deform according to the stresses undergone by the said element.  2) Skate according to claim 1, characterized in that the microbeads are ceramic.  3) Skate according to claim 1, characterized in that the microbeads are made of alumina silicate.  4) Skate according to any one of claims 1, 2 and 3 above, characterized in that it has a closed ring shape.  5) Skate according to any one of claims 1, 2 and 3 above, characterized in that it has an open ring shape.  6) Skate according to any one of claims 1, 2 and 3, characterized in that it has a spiral shape of an open ring.  7) Skate according to any one of claims 1, 2 and 3 above, characterized in that it has a circular shape of open ring staggered along the element of the rod.  8) Flexible and deformable tubular cane element. fishing fitted with inner skates according to any one of claims 1 to 7; characterized in that the said pads are glued inside the said element.