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US 7,458,563 B1Granted
Tree stand hoist
OwnerSsu-Liu Liuinventor
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Abstract
A tree stand hoist includes a holder frame with stop bars and harnesses for fastening to a tree, a bracket provided at the back side of the holder frame to support a cable wheel, a cable pulley assembly provided with a rope for fastening to the tree at a high place, a steel cable, which has one end fastened to the cable wheel and the other end inserted through the cable pulley assembly and terminating in a hook for hooking a tree stand, and a crank handle for rotating the cable wheel through a gear transmission mechanism to roll up the steel cable so as to lift the tree stand for setting up on the tree.
Claims7
A tree stand hoist comprising:
- a holder frame, said holder frame comprising a vertical main shaft, a plurality of horizontal stop bars respectively and fixedly provided at a front side of said vertical main shaft near top and bottom ends of said vertical main shaft, and a plurality of belt lugs respectively provided at said vertical main shaft near said horizontal stop bars;
- two harnesses respectively mounted on said belt lugs of said holder frame and adapted to fasten said holder frame to a tree;
- a bracket fixedly fastened to a back side of said vertical main shaft, said bracket having two parallel sidewalls;
- a cable wheel pivotally supported between the two parallel sidewalls of said bracket;
- a driven gear wheel fixedly fastened to one side of said cable wheel;
- a cable pulley assembly;
- a rope for fastening to the trunk of a tree, said rope having one end fastened to said cable pulley assembly;
- a steel cable wound round said cable wheel, said steel cable having a first end fixedly fastened to the periphery of said steel cable and a second end inserted through said cable pulley assembly and fixedly provided with a hook for hooking a tree stand;
- an axle pivotally supported on the two parallel sidewalls of said bracket, said axle having a coupling tip extended from one end thereof;
- a transmission gear fixedly mounted on said axle and meshed with said driven gear wheel;
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- a crank handle coupled to the coupling tip of said axle for rotating said axle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.