Multi-purpose load winch

An improved load tensioning winch apparatus adapted for tensioning engagement with a wide variety of load binders and comprising:

• mandrel means comprising a cylindrical tube mounted rotatably on a relatively fixed frame means and including drive engagement means for accommodating selective rotation thereof together with rotation limit means for selectively limiting mandrel rotation to one direction;
• said cylindrical tube which is so perforated, being nonetheless otherwise substantially continuous and solid along its binder-engaging periphery;
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• binder coupling means including minor perforate means through said mandrel means, this coupling means being adapted to be loosely engaged with the end of said binders, accommodating both straps and strand binders, and being translateable toward and away from said periphery, whereby, when said binder coupling means is translated toward said binder periphery, said strap is wound about said binder coupling means and said binder periphery, thereby coupling said strap to said binder.