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Abstract

A guide device for fishing lines formed by punching a single piece of sheet metal and subjecting the resulting sheet metal to a bending step. It consists of a guide ring for a fishing line and a mount for a fishing rod, which are integrally formed. The mount is composed of two legs, which are extended in the opposite directions from a lower portion of the guide ring such that one of the legs is extended inside the guide ring with the other extended outside the guide ring, to allow the legs to have the same width and to be set on a fishing rod in a balanced condition. Since the legs are extended from a lower portion of the guide ring, it is never caught by a fishing line while in use. The guide ring is reinforced at its inner circumferential surface with a ring of a synthetic resin having a hard inner ring fitted into the inner circumferential surface of the reinforcement ring. The reinforcement ring is firmly fitted into recesses provided in the inner circumferential surface of the guide ring. The reinforcement ring permits a fishing line to be guided smoothly and serves to prevent a fishing line from being worn in a short time.

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