摘要:
A sailboat winch used for trimming lines of alternate sails, such as a jib and a spinnaker, has a drum with upper and lower drum portions of different diameters separated by a continuous radially projecting lip. The upper drum portion has a first diameter and is used for trimming the jib at maximum power. The lower drum portion has a diameter greater than the first diameter and is used for trimming the spinnaker lines. The radial extent of the lip is sufficient to prevent a line, when wrapped on the lower drum, from slipping upwardly and becoming disengaged from the lower drum.
摘要:
A universal cable winding drum for winding and unwinding a cable connected thereto. The drum has a hollow central hub for securement to a rod associated with a winding mechanism to impart rotation to the drum. A cylindrical cable supporting wall is connected to the hub and extends thereabout for supporting a plurality of windings of a cable thereon. The cable supporting wall has a plurality of cable guide channels formed therein in side-by-side relationship and are interspaced at overlapping end regions whereby to constitute right and left hand cable guide channels so that the cable can be wound thereon from either side of the drum. The end of the cable is secured through an end one of the channels on the cylindrical wall of the drum.
摘要:
The disclosure is of a system for maintaining tension in a cable during winding off or on a power driven cable drum. The cable winds off or back onto the cable drum over a roller means, e.g., between a pair of parallel geared-together traction rollers, or over a sheave, as another example, with a non-slip engagement therewith. The non-slip engagement avoids wear on the cable, and the life of the cable is greatly extended. To permit this, a frictional slip clutch is placed in a power transmission interposed between the power driven cable drum and the non-slip drive rollers, or sheave. The wear that formerly eroded the cable now occurs in the friction slip clutch, whose parts can always be quickly and inexpensively replaced. The system also includes certain one-way roller clutches, and gears, so arranged as to normally overdrive the roller means, or sheave, in paying out cable, and to retard the cable during winding in. The arrangement provides gearing of a drive ratio tending to overdrive the cable in paying out, and to underdrive, or retard, during winding in, the necessary slip always being accommodated by the slip-clutch. The cable is thus always under tension, and fouling of the cable is prevented.