FISHING REELS. 93 



are thus entirely protected. The reel is perfectly sym- 

 metrical in form, and very strongly, though neatly and 

 lightly made, of German silver. 



Wm. Mills & Son manufacture a very novel combined 

 click and multiplying reel, which is eminently well adapted 

 for fly-tishing. A reference to the illustration will show 

 that its peculiar mechanism consists in an application of 

 the principle of the epicycloidal wheel. The invention 

 consists of a fixed ring, with teeth on the inside, attached 

 to the frame of the reel ; a spur wheel upon the shaft of 

 the spool; and a pinion engaging with said toothed ring 

 and wheel. The pinion is riveted to the outside plate 

 (which is a revolving disk) of the reel, to which is also af- 

 fixed the handle. By this arrangement the gearing is all 

 in the same plane, and the spool moves in the same direc- 

 tion as the handle, only three times as fast, thus making it 

 a treble multiplying reel. 



The automatic drag of this reel is also a novel feature. 

 The central pinion is countersunk to admit a coiled watch 

 spring with a ratchet or pawl on its free extremity, which 

 engages with shallow cogs, or cams, on the end of the axis 

 of the spool. As the line is pulled off the spool, it is re- 

 tarded somewhat by this ratchet-wheel, the same as by a 

 click ; but in reeling up the line the ratchet and cogs are 

 inoperative, and the line is reeled rapidly and without 

 hindrance. 



Thus it has all the advantages of a single click reel, with 

 a protected handle, to which is added its value as a triple 

 multiplier. It is constructed entirely of metal, and is a 

 very light and compact reel. 



