Retractable tow reel assembly
AssigneeSuper ATV, LLC
InventorJason Stewart
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Abstract
A retractable tow reel assembly for an off-road vehicle, the assembly including a bracket having a pair of opposing uprights and mountable to an off-road vehicle, a reel adapted to be held by the bracket when mounted to the vehicle and effective for holding a tow rope, the reel including a shaft and a pair of opposing drum ends having a diameter greater than the diameter of the connecting shaft, and a tow rope having an eye end and a free end, where the eye end is threaded around the shaft, where the shaft has a first end and a second end, and where the first end of the shaft may be released from the first drum end and exposed to facilitate threading of the rope eye over the shaft without releasing the second end of the shaft from the second drum end.
Claims10
A retractable tow reel assembly for an off-road vehicle, the assembly comprising:
- a bracket having a pair of opposing uprights and mountable to an off-road vehicle, wherein one of the pair of opposing uprights is separable from the other of the pair of opposing uprights and removable from the remainder of the assembly without removing the other upright from the assembly;
- a reel adapted to be held by the bracket when mounted to the vehicle and effective for holding a tow rope, the reel including a shaft and a pair of opposing drum ends having a diameter greater than the diameter of the connecting shaft, wherein the shaft is quickly releasable from one of the drum ends without releasing the shaft from the other drum end;
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- the tow rope having an eye end and a free end, wherein the eye end is threaded around the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.