A winch including a drive motor, a cable drum, and a gear train assembly coupled to the drive motor and including a planetary gear set having a ring gear positioned in a gear train housing. The gear train housing including a radial clutch mount and an axial clutch mount. A clutch mechanism is selectively positionable at the radial clutch mount, in a first configuration, and the axial clutch mount, in a second configuration. The clutch mechanism is operable to selectively lock and unlock the ring gear to the gear train housing, thereby engaging and disengaging the cable drum from the gear train assembly.
Winch with multi-position clutch mechanism
2020-12-29
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B66D Haspeln , CAPSTANS |
Double-speed winch clutch and double-speed electric winch with winch clutch
European Patent Office | 2021
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