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US Patents for Rods, Seats, Guides, & Wrappers

Wrappers

Wodetsky Wrapper 1953

Smith Wrapper 1961

AmTak-PacBay Wrapper 2005 Tsung-Seng Lee inventor

AmTak-PacBay Wrapper Improved 2005.pdf

Pac-Bay Improved Aluminum Chuck.pdf Tsung-Seng Lee inventor

Roger Seiders (Flex-Coat) Hand & Power Wrappers 1982

Eugene Mason's Wrapper 1981

Bamboo laminating Wrapper

Lindquist Hand Wrapper 1996

Striano hand wrapper 1949

Reel Seats

1890 wrap on reel seat

Wrap On Sliding Hood 1901

Fuji Plate Seat 1980

Zebco Rino Casting Seat 1992

Up-Locking 1938

Floating Reel Seat 1948

Berkley Casting Seat 1997

Lever Reel Seat 1922

Trolling Butt & Seat 1978

Rods

Laminated Rod 1936

Rod with Buldge 1999

Direct Connected Handle 1984

Process for making wood blanks 1944

Heddon Metallic Rod 1933

Graphite Fiber Rod Blank 1977

Under Blank Casting 1984

Variable Action Rod 1988

Guides and Tip Tops

Ritter (guide & tip) 1949

Bell Guide 1923

Fuji Ringed Guide 1979

Another Fuji Ringed Guide 1979

Interline System 1992

Reynolds Roller Tip 1941

Ring Guide 1966

Roller Guides 1984

Misc. / Grips/ Ferrules

Land'O'Tackle Pistol Grip 1977

Morton Guide Placement Chart

Leonard Ferrule 1875

Method for Faux Decorative Wraps

Shobert Guide Attachment System

Sleeve Like Guide Attachment

Illuminated Rods

Wylie Wiggins's Lazer Rod 2000

B. G. Fore 1958

Bamboo Rods

Process for the Mfgr of Split Bamboo Rods (L. J. Lane 1925)

Split Bamboo Rod ( E.C. Powell 1933)

Inter-Line Rods

J. K. White 1924