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Patent drawing sheets showing a spring-powered fishing reel with internal planetary gear train, cam-actuated clutch disk, hand crank, brake lever with wire line guard, and exploded views of individual gears and pinions.

FISHING-REEL.Elbert Ball Porter · July 12, 1892

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