Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Strand guide – Oscillatable or reciprocable
Patent
1990-01-19
1991-03-26
Gilreath, Stanley N.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Strand guide
Oscillatable or reciprocable
242157R, 2421561, B65H 5700
Patent
active
050022385
ABSTRACT:
A guide for controlling and insuring level wind of cables onto winch reels particularly when there is no load on the cable. The guide unit consists of a spring loaded, arcuately shaped bar to provide pressure against the incoming cable entirely across the width of the winch reel. The guide includes a base plate for mounting in close proximity to the reel, a spring biasing member which is retained to the base plate and which is designed, through a pair of extending arms to exert pressure upon an arcuately formed cable contacting member. The combination of the spring force and the arcuately formed member applies a pressure to the incoming cable such that it will be properly spirally wound about the cable reel and to particularly prevent the reel from climbing the outermost dimensions of the reel. In this manner then the cable is properly spirally wound about the reel with a single layer of cable being applied onto the reel in successive relation. The aspect of providing constant contact and pressure against the cable is only required under no load conditions as when the cable is under load conditions it will properly be received onto the cable in the desired spiral layered arrangement.
Inhofer, deceased Harold G.
Inhofer, legal representative by Julie M.
Inhofer, legal representative by William
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