US 4,135,681 A · Winch attachment for vehicle wheels

Abstract

A winch is constructed to be removably attached to the driving wheel of a motor vehicle by means of the lug bolts of the vehicle. The winch comprises a hollow drum with flanges on each end. The inner one of the flanges has holes through it to receive the lug bolts of the vehicle wheel, and the drum has holes formed through it directly opposite each of the lug bolt receiving holes on this flange to accommodate the head of a wrench for tightening and loosening the lug bolts. The outer flange has holes through it aligned with the lug bolt receiving holes of the inner flange, so that the wrench can pass through these holes in the outer flange for attaching and removing the winch to and from the vehicle wheel. The outer flange also has an additional hole formed in it to facilitate the attachement of a cable or rope for use with the winch.

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Dependent claims

A winch for mounting on a driving wheel attached to a vehicle axle by a plurality of wheel bolts, said winch including in combination:

a drum member having only first and second spaced flanges thereon for receiving therebetween a cable to be wound on said drum member;
said first flange thereof having wheel bolt receiving holes therethrough for receiving at least some of said plurality of wheel bolts and having at least one enlarged hole therethrough for permitting the passage of a wheel bolt nut therethrough;
said second flange has holes therethrough aligned with said wheel bolt receiving holes;
and said drum member having recesses therein adjacent said at least some of said wheel bolt receiving holes, but separated therefrom by solid portions of said first flange, to accommodate the head of a wrench.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Winch attachment for vehicle wheels

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Winch attachment for vehicle wheels

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Abstract

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