IMPROVEMENTS IN FISHING REELS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Duncan Malloch, of the City and County of Perth,
North Britain, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FISHING REELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Duncan Malloch at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th March 1880.
PETER DUNCAN MALLOCH, of the City and County of Perth, North Britain.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FISHING REELS.".
This Invention, which relates to improvements in the reels attached to rods used
by fishermen, has for its object to prevent the handle of the reel, or the plate or
arm by which the said handle is carried, from being turned round on or with the
axis of the recl at the time when the line is being run out by hand or by
a fish.
The Invention has also for its object to enable the handle to be used as a
brake for the purpose of retarding the running out of the line whenever required.
It is bere explained that whilst the handle. does not at such times rotate on or
with the axis of the reel, it does at such times rotate on its own axis in the plate
or rod by which it is carried.
The foregoing objects are effected by the employment of what is known as one
form of the "sun and planet" motion for driving the reel.
One of the wheels of this motion is fixed to the inner part of the axis of the
handle, and the other wheel is carried upon the axis of the reel proper, the two
wheels (which are toothed or spur wheels) being in gear.
By varying the diameters of the wheels of the "sun and planet" motion the
rate of rotation of the reel for winding in the line may be varied to any desired
extent, as its rate of rotation may be increased several times beyond the rate of
rotation of the driving wheel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Peter Duncan Malloch in the Great Seal Patent Oflice on the 23rd
September 1880..
PETER DUNCAN MALLOCH, of the City and County of Perth, North Britain.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FISHING-REELS."
My Invention relates to improvements in the reels attached to rods used by
fishermen, and has for its object to prevent the handle of the reel, or the plate or
arm by which the said handle is carried, from being turned round on or with the
axis of the reel at the time when the line is being run out by hand or by
a fish.
The Invention has also for its object to enable the handle to be used as a
brake for the purpose of retarding the running out of the line whenever required.
It is here explained that whilst the handle does not at such time rotates on or
with the axis of the reel, it does at such times rotate on its own axis in the plate
or rod by which it is carried.
The foregoing objects are effected by the employment of what is known as one
form of the "sun and planet" motion for driving the reel.
One of the wheels of this motion is fixed to the inner part of the axis of the
handle, and the other wheel is carried upon the axis of the reel proper.
By varying the diameters of the wheels of the "sun and planet" notion the rate
of rotation of the recl for winding in the line may be varied to any desired extent,
as its rate of rotation may be increased several times beyond the rate of rotation
of the driving wheel.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I now proceed
more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner in or under which the
same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and Figures marked thereon, that
is to say :-
Figure 1 represents in elevation, and Figure 2 in transverse section a fishing reel
constructed according to my Invention. Figure 3 is an elevation of the same with
the side plate carrying the winding handle removed, and Figure 4 is a back view
of the said plate. The axis a of the reel turns in bearings b in the cheeks of the
reel. At the side where the winding handle is situated the said axis projects
beyond the cheek, where it is formed with a squared part c and a circular part d.
The toothed wheel e is carried upon the squared part c, and the plate fis carried
upon the part d. The said plate f carries the winding handle g, and fixed upon
the stem of this handle is the toothed wheel h. When the platef is placed upon
the part & and secured thereon by the screw i screwed into the end of the axle the
toothed wheel is in gear with the toothed wheel c. The opposite check of the
reel is or may be provided with the ordinary V wheel and pawl or click k kept
in position by springs bearing on both sides, or other equivalent check arrangement
may be adopted. By this arrangement, when the line is being run out, the handlo
and plate f do not revolve upon the axis of the reel, but the part d of the said
axis runs freely in the central hole of the said plate, the toothed wheel e however
giving through the wheel h a motion of rotation to the handle g upon its own axis.
In winding in, the handle g being grasped by the hand, the wheel is held firmly
in gear with the wheel e, and by giving the said handle g a motion of revolution
around the axle a the plate f turns freely upon the part d of the said axle, but the
said axle is rotated through the toothed wheels h and e.
By holding the handle g firmly in position, and so that it cannot rotate upon its
axis, the said handle may be used as a brake, the wheel / preventing the rotation
of the wheel e.and consequently of the axle a.
(

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the system, mode, or manner, in or under which the same is or
may be used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that
what I consider to be novel and original, and thereforo claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The hereinbefore described improvements in fishing reels, consisting in arranging
the driving mechanism essentially as hereinboforo described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Duncan Malloch, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Ann
ATTANALY KITTACH
PETER DUNCAN MALLOCH. (L.B.)