AN IMPROVED FISHING REEL
Year: 1884

page_text: I, SAMUEL ALLCOCK trading as S. Allcock & Co Standard Works Redditch
Fishing Tackle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for.
AN IMPROVED FISHING REEL, to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable any one to either take off or put on the
check action of a Fishing Reel, as required, so that the Reel may be used either
with or without the check action, and by the same movement to lock itself in
either position.
The novelty in this invention consists of an eccentric disc or plate, fastened to a
knob or cap running freely in a hole in centre of reel plate, and which by a quarter
turn pushes away the ratch, and allows the reel to be used without the check
action, and by a quarter turn in.the opposite direction brings the check action into
use again, and also in so arranging the action that it is self locking.
Figure 1 shows inside of an ordinary reel plate A with ratch CC and with a
hole B in centre to carry cap of eccentric disc shewn in Figure 5.
F is a wire spring to keep ratch in position. Figure 2 shews reel plate with
eccentric disc, D, and cap in position, and with ratch C in its ordinary position in a
check reel, and two small holes E 1. E 2 in disc corresponding with a stud fixed in
reel plate.
Figure 3 shews same roel plato with the eccentric disc D moved a quarter turn
to throw the ratch C out of position.
Figure 4 shows a complete reel, and the action for locking the disc when in
either position as shewn in Figures 2 or 3.
A. A is section of side plate of Reel.
F is axle, and G G checks or inner plates of Reel. HH is a bent spring,
pushing axle and the inner parts of Reel against the side plate A. A.
I is a stud fixed in side plate, fitting into the holes in eccentric disc E1E 2.
Figure 5 shews section of the eccentric disc and knob to be loosely fitted into the
hole in the Reel plate B Figure 1 so as to turn round easily with the thumb and
finger.

page_text: Figure 6 is a front view of bent spring H H of which a section is shewn in
Figure 4.
Figure 7 is view of eccentric disc D shewing the holes E 1 E 2.
Figure 8 is an enlarged sectional view of side plate A and cap and disc D
shewing the hole in disc E and stud I.
To throw off the check, press the cap D, Figure 4, inwards till the eccentric
disc d d is clear of the stud I, then give the cap a quarter turn, to throw the ratch
out of position, and the spring E forces the stud I into the second hole in disc E 2.
To put on the check action, press the cap D as before, inwards till the disc d. is
clear of the stud I, then give a quarter turn the reverse way, and the ratch returns
to its original position and the spring H H forces the stud I into the first hole in
disc E 1.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, SAMUEL ALLCOCK, trading as S Allcock & Co of Standard Works Redditch in
the County of Worcester Fishing Tackle Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for AN IMPROVED FISHING REEL, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to enable any one to either take off or put on the
check action of a Fishing Reel, as required, so that the Reel may be used either
with or without the check action, and by the same movement to lock itself in
either position.
The novelty in this invention consists of an eccentric disc or plate, fastened to a
knob or cap running freely in a hole in centre of reel plate, and which by a quarter
turn pushes away the ratch, and allows the reel to be used without the check
action, and by a quarter turn in the opposite direction brings the check action
into use again, and also in so arranging the action that it is self-locking.
Referring to the drawings accompanying my provisional specification, Figure 1
shews inside of an ordinary reel plate A with ratch C C and with a hole B in
centre to carry cap of eccentric disc shewn in Figure 5.
F is a wire spring to keep ratch in position. Figure 2 shews reel plate with
eccentric disc D and cap in position, and with ratch in its ordinary position in a
check reel, and two small holes E 1. E2 in disc corresponding with a stud fixed in
reel plate.
Figure 3 shews same reel plate with the eccentric disc D moved a quarter turn to
throw the ratch C out of position.
Figure 4 shows a complete reel, and the action for locking the disc when in
either position as shewn in Figures 2 or 3.
A A is section of side plate of Reel.
F is axle, and G G checks, or inner plates of Reel. H H is a bent spring
pushing axle and the inner parts of Reel against the side plate A A.
I is a stud fixed in side plate fitting into the holes in eccentric disc E 1 E 2,
Figure 5 shews section of the eccentric disc and knob to be loosely fitted into the
hole in the Reel plate B Figure 1 so as to twine round easily with the thumb and
finger.
Figure 6 is a front view of bent spring H H of which a section is shown in
Figure 4.
Figure 7 is view of eccentric disc D shewing the holes E1 E2
Figure 8 is an enlarged sectional view of side plate A and cap and disc D
shewing the hole in disc E and stud I.
To throw off the check, press the cap D Figure 4 inwards till the eccentric
disc d d is clear of the stud 1, then give the cap a quarter turn, to throw the ratch
out of position, and the spring E forces the stud I into the second hole in disc E 2.
To put on the check action, press the cap D as before, inwards till the disc d is
clear of the stud I then give a quarter turn the reverse way, and the ratch returns
to its original position and the spring H H forces the stud I into the first hole in
disc 1,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1et The method of removing or replacing the check action by means of the
eccentric diso and cap D working in a hole B in centre of Reel plate.
2nd The method of locking the reel in either position by means of the stud I
fitting into the holes in eccentric disc E 1 E 2.