US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Rotatable line transfer member for a fishing reel with lever actuation" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,299, issued on July 21.

"Rotatable line transfer member for a fishing reel with lever actuation" was invented by James Edwards Milton (Malaga, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing reel having a lever actuated rotatable line transfer member comprises a reel body, a spool rotatably mounted on the reel body, the rotatable line transfer member mounted on the reel body for rotation about a central axis between a retrieve position and a cast position, with a lever extending through a slot in the reel body and operatively coupled to the rotatable line-transfer member. The lever is engaged in slidable communication between a first e...