A manual marine winch includes a safety knockout override preventing release of winch tension without the handle in stowed position. The winch includes a housing; a rotating drum on the housing; a winch line on the drum; a control for spooling and un-spooling the winch line on the drum, wherein the control includes a handle for selectively tensioning the drum and moveable between a position engaged with the drum and a disengaged stowed position; a tension holding mechanism on the housing comprising a ratchet gear coupled to the drum, a pawl selectively engaged with the ratchet gear, and a knockout configures to selectively disengage the pawl from the gear to allow for release of winch tension; and a safety knockout override coupled to the housing and selectively engaged by the handle and configured to prevent release of winch tension when the handle is not in the stowed position.
MANUAL MARINE WINCH WITH SAFETY KNOCKOUT OVERRIDE PREVENTING RELEASE OF WINCH TENSION WITHOUT THE HANDLE IN THE STOWED POSITION
2015-08-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B66D Haspeln , CAPSTANS |
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