Fixed spool fishing reel

摘要

A fixed spool fishing reel having a handle shaft connected to a handle to be rotated thereby and coupled to a bail arm drive of the wheel so that rotation of the handle shaft causes rotation of the bail arm. The handle shaft is coupled to the bail arm drive via a gear mechanism that enables the gear ratio between rotation of the handle shaft and rotation of the bail arm drive to be selectively altered. Also, a fixed spool fishing reel having a spool shaft and two gear wheels respectively on opposite sides of the spool shaft, both gear wheels being coupled to be driven by a rotary handle of the reel and both being selectable to be the one which drives a spool shaft oscillatory mechanism of the reel, the coupling between each of the said two gear wheels and the mechanism being via respective gearing arrangements to impart different respective ratios of handle rotary speed to oscillatory speed of the spool shaft.

主权项

1. A fixed spool fishing reel having a handle shaft connected to a handle to be rotated thereby and coupled to a bail arm drive of the reel so that rotation of the handle shaft causes rotation of the bail arm, in which the handle shaft is coupled to the bail arm drive via a gear mechanism that enables the gear ratio between rotation of the handle shaft and rotation of the bail arm drive to be selectively altered, in which the handle is readily releaseably connected to either selected one of the two ends of the handle shaft, characterized in that the handle shaft extends through a hollow dog gear shaft which is rotationally fixed on but slidable along the handle shaft, which dog gear shaft is provided with dog gears at both of its ends, couplable respectively to two gear wheels of the said gear mechanism, the length of the dog gear shaft being such that when one of its ends is coupled to its associated gear wheel the other is not, and correspondingly when the other of its ends is coupled to its associated gear wheel the said one of its ends is not.