Patent ID: 7845590

Claim:
A sound generating device installed in a fishing reel constructed to generate a sound in response to rotation of a drag adjusting lever mounted to an outer peripheral surface of a boss formed on a reel unit of the fishing reel to support a spool shaft such that the drag adjusting lever can rotate about the spool shaft, the sound generating device comprising: a sound generating member movably mounted on the boss and including a substantially truncated cone-shaped member axially coinciding with the spool shaft and an undulated surface formed along the outer circumferential surface of the cone-shaped member, the sound generating member being non-rotatably disposed between an outer wall surface of the boss and the drag adjusting lever and free to move outwardly along the axial direction of the spool shaft relative to the outer wall surface of the boss; and a striker mechanism mounted to the drag adjusting lever and arranged to repeatedly contact the undulated surface upon rotation of the drag adjusting lever.