Patent ID: 6959680

Claim:
A recoil starter comprising: a starter housing adapted to be attachable to a side of an engine at which an end portion of a crankshaft of the engine is disposed; a rope reel rotatably supported inside said starter housing and around which is wound a recoil rope having an end pulled out to the outside of said starter housing; a cam rotatably supported coaxially with said rope reel and adapted to be rotated by rotation of said rope reel so as to cause said crankshaft of the engine to rotate via a one-way rotative mechanism; and a resilient means, interposed between said rope reel and said cam, for resiliently and rotatingly coupling said rope reel and said cam, a rotational force of said rope reel rotated by pulling said recoil rope being transmitted to said cam via said resilient means; wherein a reel support shaft for rotatably supporting said rope reel and said cam inside said starter housing is formed on and projects from an inner surface of said starter housing toward the crankshaft of the engine; an opening is formed through a center of said reel support shaft in a manner to extend from a distal end thereof near the crankshaft of the engine to the outside of said starter housing; and a drive shaft of a power-driven device which is driven by the engine and disposed at the outside of said starter housing is coupled to the crankshaft of the engine inside said opening, wherein an annular plate is secured to said starter housing so that said rope reel and said cam are brought at outer peripheral portions of respective side surfaces thereof into abutment against said annular plate, whereby said rope reel and said cam are supported so that they are not detached in an axial direction from said reel support shaft.