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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1977
Wayne E Alex, Juneau, AK (US);
Other;
Abstract
A vessel is provided with a power driven wheel or gurdy for hauling in long lines having gangions and hooks at spaced intervals. The line and gangions are guided into a rotary coiler which deposits successive loops of the line on a moving conveyor belt, thus displacing each successive loop from the previous loop to facilitate manual selection and baiting the hooks without undue tangling of the line and gangions. The conveyor belt then deposits the coiled line in a suitable receiver with the coils more or less concentrically superimposed. The conveyor is also laterally oscillated when the belt is stopped to minimize snarling of lines when coiled in a single stack. Selectively operable manual controls are used to regulate the speed of the conveyor belt and the oscillation thereof.