Centrifugal braking apparatus for baitcasting reel

摘要

A centrifugal braking apparatus for a baitcasting reel comprises a spool, pivot shafts, brake levers, and a ring-shaped braking member. The spool is rotatably supported between both side plates of a reel main body. Each of the pivot shafts is disposed on the spool so as to be arranged apart from a rotation axis of the spool in a radius direction thereof and extended at right angles to a straight line parallel with the rotation axis of the spool. Each of the brake levers has a tip end portion and a root end portion that is pivotably supported by the pivot shaft so that the tip end portion of the brake lever is movable toward a standard plane, which includes a central axis of the pivot shaft and is perpendicular to the rotation axis of the spool, under a function of centrifugal force produced by rotation of the spool. The ring-shaped braking member is provided on the reel main body so that the tip end portion of the brake lever can be brought into contact with the ring-shaped braking member.