Patent ID: 7234661
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A drag adjustment device for a dual-bearing reel comprising: a reel unit part; a drag adjustment lever configured and arranged to pivot about a spool shaft of a spool between a free position corresponding to a drag free state where the spool can freely rotate and a maximum position corresponding to a maximum drag state of a lever drag mechanism; an intermediate positioning mechanism including a positioning block attached to a region of the reel unit part at an intermediate position, which is between the free position and the maximum position, so as to be able to advance or retreat and so as not to rotate with the drag adjustment lever, and a spring member that urges the positioning block in an advance direction, the intermediate positioning mechanism allowing the positioning block to contact the drag adjustment lever so as to position the drag adjustment lever at the intermediate position when the drag adjustment lever is pivoted from the free position to the intermediate position, the positioning block being further configured and arranged to be pressed inward by a finger or thumb that operates the drag adjustment lever; a drag adjustment sounding mechanism including a portion of the reel unit part with a plurality of sound-emitting recessed portions configured and arranged to oppose the drag adjustment lever and spaced from each other at an interval in the pivot direction between the free position and the maximum position, a sound-emitting pin attached to the drag adjustment lever so as to be able to oppose the sound-emitting recessed portions and to advance or retreat, and a spring member that urges the sound-emitting pin toward the sound-emitting recessed portions, the drag adjustment sounding mechanism sounding in response to the pivoting of the drag adjustment lever, the reel unit part including a cut-out portion arranged on the region of the reel unit part along the positioning block such that the drag adjustment lever operates in a silent state with reduced frictional movement and no sound being emitted from the drag adjustment sounding mechanism during movement of the drag adjustment lever along the region of the reel unit part along the positioning block in that the sound emitting pin does not oppose the sound-emitting recessed portions in the silent state.