Combination winch and traction intensifier for rubber tired vehicles

A device for extricating an immobilized rubber tired vehicle having a power driven drive wheel and a non-driven wheel comprising

• traction intensifying means for operative connection to a drive wheel of a vehicle for increasing the tractive force between the vehicle drive wheel and the surface upon which said drive wheel is supported,
• said traction intensifying means including resilient traction bar formed from cross section of tire casing segments with an outer surface-engaging contour in the configuration the same as the outer transverse cross sectional contour of the vehicle drive wheel with each end thereof mutually exclusively secured to one of a pair of longitudinally extending parallel coupling members for positioning each one of said resilient traction bars in spaced transversly extending relation between said coupling members,
• one of said pair of longitudinally extending parallel coupling members having buckle means at each end thereof and the other of said pair having the ends thereof free such that adjacent ends of said coupling members may be operatively connected to a vehicle driving wheel when said ends are interconnected,
• anchoring means operatively connected to a non-driven wheel of the vehicle and coupled to said traction intensifying means for providing a fixed anchor point for said traction intensifying means, relative to the non-driven vehicle wheel,
• said anchoring means including coupling means for coupling said traction intensifying means thereto, and
• spring means operatively connected to said coupling means for controlling the tension therein upon operative engagement of said traction intensifying means coupling members with the vehicle driven wheel.