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US 4,225,119 AGranted
Continuous winch
AssigneeRotzler GmbH & Co. Spezialfabrik fur Seilwinden und Hebezeuge
InventorEgon Frommherz
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Abstract
A continuous winch with two wheels of which at least one is driven and in case of a multi-groove design is provided with a run-off groove for the non-loaded cable section, while the unloaded run-off cable section in the run-off groove is adapted to be clamped or guyed transverse to the running off direction. The run-off groove is on one side confined by a clamping wheel which is spring loaded in clamping direction substantially merely on that semi-arc which is looped around by the running-off cable.
Claims10
A continuous winch, which includes:
- two wheels at least one of which is adapted to be driven and provided with a run-off groove for the non-loaded cable section and having a semi-arc of said wheels to be looped around by a running-off cable, and clamping means associated with said run-off groove for clamping the cable section in the run-off groove in a direction transverse to the running off direction of said cable section, said clamping means comprising a clamping wheel forming one lateral and movable confining wall of said run-off groove and being spring-loaded in clamping direction substantially merely on that semi-arc of said wheel which is to be looped around by the running off cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.