Patent ID: 6105301
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A reel seat for a fishing rod which comprises a generally cylindrical body having a thread formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof and a reel foot seat surface; a cylindrical movable hood rotatably fitted around said body and having a thread formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof to cooperate with said thread formed on said outer circumferential surface of the body; said cylindrical movable hood and said body defining a space; and a body protector arranged in said space such that it can slip in a circumferential direction relative to the movable hood, said body protector coming into contact with a portion of said outer circumferential surface of the body diametrically opposite the reel foot seat surface; whereby when a reel mounting foot is seated on the reel foot seat surface and one end portion of the reel mounting foot is brought into pressing contact with the reel foot seat surface, said one end portion of the mounting foot is inserted into said space by rotatably moving the movable hood forwardly to the mounting foot and said body protector comes into contact with the body at the latest when the one end portion of the mounting foot starts to come into pressing contact with the reel foot seat surface.