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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dan C Muessel, Danvers, MA (US);
Assignee:
Rule Industries, Inc., Gloucester, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
254344 ; 254345 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a planetary gear winch comprising a selectively operable freewheel arrangement therefor. The freewheel arrangement of the invention provides the winch operator with the ability to disengage the winch drum from the planetary gear reduction drive train, under no-load conditions, thereby to allow freewheeling rotation of the winch drum and rapid unwinding of line therefrom.