Patent ID: 7198219

Claim:
In combination with a drive gear that drives a fishing reel spool, relative to reel axis, the above gear having a shaft, a) an anti-reverse gear for blocking reverse rotation of the spool, b) an anti-reverse dog carried by the body to rotate into and out of engagement with said anti-reverse gear, c) an elongated dog arm pivotally connected with the dog, approximate a dog shoulder that engages the anti-reverse gear, d) a friction spring extending about the drive gear shaft, and connected to said dog arm, e) whereby, drive gear shaft clockwise rotation creates friction spring torque acting to displace said dog arm in one direction to effect engagement of the dog arm with the anti-reverse gear to block counterclockwise rotation of the anti-reverse gear, thereby blocking line unwinding reverse rotation of the spool, f) and drive gear counterclockwise rotation results in dog arm displacement in the opposite direction to effect disengagement of the dog from the anti-reverse gear, thereby unblocking forward line winding rotation of the spool, g) each of said anti-reverse gear, anti-reverse dog, and drive gear shaft have axes of rotation, and all of said axes being parallel, h) and wherein said elongated dog arm crosses a plane created by the rotational axes of the drive gear shaft and the axes of the anti-reverse gear, and is bodily movable endwise to effect dog rotation.