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Sheet metal reel

Patent drawing of a fishing reel showing a circular skeleton spool with radiating ribs inside a banded frame, a crank handle, and a side view of the spool's stamped sheet-metal construction.

IMPROVEMENT IN FISHING-REELS.Anson Hatch · June 19, 1866

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