Patent ID: 6336604
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
For a spinning reel having a spool line-winding rotor from which a pair of diametrically opposed rotor arms extend axially, a fishing line guide mechanism mounted on either one of a pair of bail supports pivotably mounted endwise on the respective rotor arms for pivoting between line-winding and line-releasing positions, the fishing line guide mechanism for guiding a fishing line onto the spool and comprising:a stationary shaft fixed endwise to the one bail support at a bias toward the line-releasing position of the bail supports with respect to the rotor rotational axis; a stationary shaft cover retained endwise on said stationary shaft opposite its fixed end at a spaced-apart interval from the one bail support; and a line roller rotatably supported on said stationary shaft in the spaced-apart interval between the one bail support and said stationary shaft cover, said line roller having a reverse-twist generating configuration including a maximum-diameter flange adjacent said stationary shaft cover; wherein said stationary shaft bias is defined as an acute angle between a line parallel to the line-roller rotational axis and the fishing line when substantially parallel to the rotor axis, in a plane containing the line both parallel to the line-roller rotational axis and intersecting that point where the fishing line when substantially parallel to the rotor axis last contacts the line roller, and said stationary shaft bias and the reverse-twist generating configuration of said line roller constitute a reverse-twist generating means for imparting reverse twist to fishing line being wound under tension onto the spool by bringing the fishing line against said maximum diameter flange.