JP3174510B2 - Fishing reel seat - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fishing reel seat mounted on the outer surface of a fishing rod, and more particularly, to a locking spring made of a leaf spring material for fixing a position of a movable hood, and The present invention relates to a fishing reel seat provided with a tightening lever for pressing a locking spring.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A fishing reel sheet of the type mounted on the outer surface of a fishing rod is described in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 55-68467 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 6-105637.

[0003] This type of reel sheet generally has the following structure. That is, a fixed-side hood is fixed to one end of a plate-shaped base fixed to the fishing rod while seated on the outer surface of the fishing rod, and a locking tooth row is formed in a substantially half range of the other end of the base. A movable element that is moved within a range substantially corresponding to the locking tooth row is slidably provided on the base, and the movable element is provided with a movable hood portion and supports one end of a locking spring made of a leaf spring. The locking edge at the other end of the locking spring is engaged with the locking tooth row so as to be freely disengaged from the locking tooth row, and a movable lever is provided with a tightening lever for pressing the locking spring from the side opposite to the base so as to be able to move up and down. I have. The tightening lever has an operating portion and an operating portion for pressing the locking spring from above, and the tip of the operating portion is locked by lowering the tightening lever so that the operating portion overlaps the movable hood portion. The spring is pressed, whereby the locking edge of the locking spring meshes with the locking tooth row to fix the position of the mover.

Recently, in this type of reel sheet, a metal material containing titanium as a main component has been used for the purpose of weight reduction and rust prevention. In addition, the fixed side hood, the mover, and the tightening lever are all formed of the above-described metal material.

[0005]

As described above, in this type of reel sheet, the tightening lever presses the locking spring with a strong pressure at least when the reel is attached or detached. The pressing is performed such that the tip of the tightening lever rubs the locking spring. Therefore, it has been pointed out that this kind of reel sheet has a problem that the operation of the tightening lever is heavy. In this regard, since titanium has a large sliding resistance, when the tightening lever is formed of a metal material containing titanium as a main component, a kind of seizure occurs between the tightening lever and the locking spring every time the tightening lever is operated. This raises a problem that the operation of the tightening lever becomes heavier.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems. Even when the tightening lever is formed of a metal material containing titanium as a main component, the operation of the tightening lever does not become heavy. It is intended to provide a reel sheet.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a fishing reel sheet according to the present invention comprises a base fixed to an outer surface of a fishing rod, a locking tooth row formed on the base, A fixed-side hood fixed to one end, a movable element having a movable-side hood portion and movably supported by the base in a certain range deviated toward the other end, and a stainless leaf spring material One end is formed in a certain range to the mover.
A locking spring, which is supported so as to be movable in the front-rear direction within the enclosure and the other end of which is a locking edge that meshes with and detaches from the locking tooth row; and the locking spring supported by the movable element so as to be able to move up and down. And a tightening lever for pressing from the opposite base side,
The tightening lever is made of a metal material containing titanium as a main component, and the tightening lever is brought into a prone position while pressing the locking spring, so that the locking edge of the locking spring meshes with the locking tooth row. The position of the mover is fixed, and the
Therefore, the tightening lever is a fishing reel sheet that presses the movable element forward, and has a plating layer of black chrome formed on at least a surface of the locking spring pressed by the tightening lever.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The details of the fishing reel sheet of the present invention will be described below with reference to the embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, the present invention is applied to a fishing reel sheet 1 having a function of moving a movable hood forward when tightened.

First, the structure of the reel sheet 1 will be described. Reference numeral 2 denotes a base of the reel sheet 1, and the base 2 has a long plate shape in a front-rear direction (a direction parallel to an axial direction of the rod when mounted on the rod), and has front and rear ends 3, 4 and a front end. The portion 5 closer to 3 is a binding portion that is narrower than the remaining portion. The reel sheet 1 is mounted on the rod by winding the thread together with the rod around these binding portions 3, 4, and 5.

A portion 6 between the front binding portion 3 and the middle binding portion 4 serves as a front reel foot seat portion, and is formed between the middle binding portion 4 and the rear binding portion 5. The portion 7 between them is a rear reel foot seat portion. These reel foot seating portions 6 and 7 are formed like pedestals somewhat higher than the binding portions 3, 4 and 5, and a shallow groove 8 is formed at an intermediate portion in the width direction. A locking tooth row 9 is formed on substantially the rear half of the bottom surface of the groove 8.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a fixed-side hood into which one end of the reel foot 11 is inserted. The fixed-side hood 10 is fixed to the front reel foot seating portion 6 so as to cover the upper surface thereof in a direction opening backward. Have been.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a mover. The mover 12 has a flat U-shape whose lower surface is open when viewed from the front-rear direction, and has a length of about half of the rear reel foot seating portion 7,
The lower ends of the left and right side walls 13 are bent so as to go under the base 2, so that the left and right side walls 13 are slidably supported by the base 2 in the front-back direction. The middle portion of the mover 12 in the front-rear direction is a valley-shaped lower spring support portion 14. A front hood-shaped portion 15 is inserted from the spring support portion 14 into the other end 11 a of the reel leg 11. It is a movable hood part.

A portion of the mover 12 on the rear side from the spring support portion 14 has a rectangular opening 16 formed at the center thereof.
The left and right sides of the mouth 16 form lever bearings 17 which are open facing each other. The openings of the lever bearings 17 facing each other have a substantially semicircular shape at the front and extend rearward at the rear.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a locking spring. This locking spring 18
A first pressed portion 20 extending rearward and downward from a rear end of the mounting portion 19, and a lower end portion 21 of the first pressed portion 20 bent in an arc shape, and , A locking portion 23 extending rearward and downward from an arc-shaped bent upper end portion of the second pressed portion 22, and a projecting portion protruding from the mounting portion 19 to both left and right sides. 24.

The locking spring 18 has a mounting portion 19
The rear part and the overhang part 24 are mounted on the spring support part 14 of the movable element 12, and the front part of the mounting part 19 is inserted into the movable hood part 15 to be supported by the movable element 12. In this state, as shown by a solid line in FIG. 1, the locking spring 18 has a portion other than the mounting portion 19 located above the locking tooth row 9.
The projecting portion 24 of the locking spring 18 is connected to the movable hood portion 15.
The locking spring 18 can be relatively moved with respect to the mover 12 with a margin in the front-rear direction between the armature 12 and the lever bearing 17.

Reference numeral 25 denotes a tightening lever. Tightening lever 25
Is bent in a substantially rectangular shape when viewed from the left and right directions, and one large side 26 is an operation part from the bent part and the other side 27
Is the action part. Reference numerals 28 denote arms projecting from the intermediate portion of the action portion 27 to the left and right sides. These arms 28 are rotatably inserted into the lever bearings 17 of the movable element 12, whereby the tightening lever 25 is moved to the movable element 12. It is supported up and down freely.

In the initial state in which the pressing on the locking spring 18 is released, the tightening lever 25 is held in the upright position shown in FIG. 2 and shown by the solid line in FIG. In this state, the pressing edge 27a, which is the tip of the action portion 27 of the tightening lever 25, is pressed against the upper end of the first pressed portion 20 of the locking spring 18 from substantially behind to press the locking spring 18 forward. As a result, the locking spring 18 is located at the front end of the movement range. In this initial state, the mounting portion 19 of the locking spring 18
Other parts are separated upward from the locking teeth row 9.

When the tightening lever 25 is pressed forward from the initial state, the pressing edge 27a of the tightening lever 25 causes the first pressed portion 20 and the second pressed portion 22 of the locking spring 18 to move from each other. In this order, when the lower end portion 21 of the first pressed portion 20 is pressed, the locking edge 23a, which is the tip of the locking portion 23 of the locking spring 18, as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. It engages with the locking tooth row 9. Thereby, the base 2 of the locking spring 18 is
The position with respect to is fixed. Next, when the pressing edge 27a presses the second pressed portion 22, the tightening lever 25 presses the mover 12 forward by the reaction force of the pressing. Then, the tightening lever 25 finally assumes a falling posture in which the operation portion 26 overlaps the movable hood portion 15.

Therefore, the reel foot 1 is
1 with the other end 11a inserted therein.
When the hood 5 is tilted, the movable hood 15 is pressed against the other end 11 a of the reel foot 11.

As the material of the locking spring 18, a relatively thin leaf spring material made of stainless steel is used in view of strength and rust resistance. Further, the base 2 and the fixed hood 1
As a material for the movable element 12, the movable element 12, and the tightening lever 25, a metal material containing titanium as a main component is used.

Next, the plating applied to the locking spring 18 will be described. The locking spring 18 has a black chrome (B · Cr) plating layer 29 (shown in a satin pattern in the drawing) formed on the entire surface thereof. As a result, the pressing edge 27a of the tightening lever 25 comes into direct contact with the plating layer 29. This plating layer 29 was formed by a known electroplating method. As a result of this plating, a remarkable improvement in the operation load (Kgf) of the tightening lever 25 was recognized.

Table 1 shows the operation load of the tightening lever 25 and the data of the comparative test when the locking spring 18 is plated with black chrome. The data of the comparative tests are as follows: locking spring 18 plated with gold (Au), chrome (Cr) plated, nickel (Ni) plated, locking spring 18 chemically polished, and ,
These are data obtained by measuring the operation load of the tightening lever 25 for the above five types that do not perform any special surface treatment.

[0023]

[Table 1]

The operation load was measured by the following method (see FIG. 4). First, the tightening lever 25 is attached to the locking spring 18.
In order to give a deformation habit associated with the operation, the tightening lever 25 was raised and lowered about five times. Thereafter, from the state in which the tightening lever 25 is in the upright posture, the tip of the tightening lever 25 is pressed by the measuring shaft 31 of the push-pull gauge 30 to bring the tightening lever 25 to the lying posture, and the maximum value of the measured load during that time is determined. This is repeated five times, and the average of each maximum value is calculated.

As is apparent from Table 1, the operating load when black chrome is plated is 1.85 Kgf, and the operating load when no surface treatment is performed is 4.1.
It can be seen that it is less than half of 2Kgf. In the case of plating with chromium, although some improvement is recognized as compared with the case where no surface treatment is performed, there is almost no change. And it was recognized that the case where chemical polishing was performed and the case where nickel was plated were worse than the case where no surface treatment was performed. The operating load when plating with gold was 1.9.
Although it was as good as 5 kgf, gold plating is easily peeled off because of its low mechanical strength, and therefore it is considered difficult to employ gold plating from the viewpoint of durability.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the specific configuration of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and the design of the present invention may be designed without departing from the gist of the present invention. Modifications and the like are included in the present invention. For example, in the embodiment, the entirety of the locking spring is plated with black chrome, but in some cases, plating may be performed only on the surface pressed by the tightening lever. Further, in the embodiment, the present invention is applied to the reel sheet having the function of moving the movable hood forward when tightening. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the tightening lever includes a locking spring. The present invention can be applied to various fishing reel sheets in which the position of the mover is fixed by pressing.

[0027]

As is apparent from the above description, in the fishing reel sheet of the present invention, a black chrome plating layer is formed on the locking spring pressed so as to be rubbed by the tightening lever. Thereby, the operation load of the tightening lever can be significantly reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view of a fishing reel sheet according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of a locking spring and a tightening lever of the fishing reel sheet shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a view showing a measuring method for measuring an operation load of a tightening lever of the fishing reel sheet shown in FIG. 2;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Fishing reel sheet 2 Base 9 Locking tooth row 10 Fixed side hood 12 Movable element 15 Movable side hood section 18 Locking spring 23a Locking edge 25 Tightening lever 29 Plating layer

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A base fixed to the outer surface of the fishing rod, a locking tooth row formed on the base, a fixed hood fixed to one end of the base, and a movable hood portion; a mover that is movably supported within a certain range that biasing to the other end, the one end portion is formed by a stainless steel plate spring member is moved to the front-rear direction within a certain range to the movable element
A locking spring is a locking edge which supported the other end is freely engaged engaged disengaged with the locking teeth to allow movement, the locking spring is contoured rotatably supported on said movable member from the opposite base side A locking lever for pressing the locking spring, the locking lever being formed of a metal material containing titanium as a main component, the locking lever being pressed down on the locking spring so as to be in a prone position to lock the locking spring. The edge is meshed with the locking tooth row, the position of the mover is fixed, and the tightening lever is
A fishing reel sheet for pressing a mover forward, wherein a black chrome plating layer is formed on at least a surface of a locking spring pressed by a tightening lever.