Patent ID: 6056222
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A device for preventing the reverse rotation of a spinning reel, said device being adapted to be installed in a spinning reel in which a rotor that is used to guide a fishing line onto a spool is mounted on a reel main body so that said rotor is free to rotate, said device being useful to prevent the reverse rotation of said rotor in the line pay-out direction, said device comprising:(i) an outer ring having an outer circumferential portion;(ii) an inner ring which is adapted to rotate relative to said outer ring;(iii) a plurality of rollers which are installed between said outer ring and said inner ring, and which are adapted to assume operating positions in which said rollers engage with said inner and outer rings, and non-operating positions in which said rollers are positioned between said inner and outer rings;(iv) a switching member which has a disk-form main body and a plurality of projecting elements which project in the axial direction from said main body, which are disposed directly between and are adjacent to each of said plurality of rollers and which are adapted make contact with said roller members when said roller members are in said non-operating positions; and(v) an operating mechanism which moves said plurality of rollers between said operating positions and said non-operating positions by causing said switching member to rotate circumferentially.