Rope Anchor For A Winch

• US 20130334479A1
• Filed: 06/14/2012
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Warn Industries Incorporated (LKQ Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Warn Industries Incorporated (LKQ Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoder, Bryan
• Granted Patent: US 9,120,656 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 254/266
• CPC Class Codes: B66D 1/34 Attachment of ropes or cables to drums or barrels
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/00 Means for fastening cables or ropes to one another or to other objects; Caps or sleeves for fixing on cables or ropes attaching ropes or cables to lift cars or cages B66B7/08, to winch drums or barrels B66D1/34; ground anchors E02D5/00; anchoring devices for prestressed members E04C5/00; rope clamps in earth drilling E21B19/12
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/046 by bending the cable around a surface

Abstract

A winch includes a motor and a rotatable drum drivingly attached to the motor. The rotatable drum includes an anchor pocket therein. A cable includes a proximal end connected to the rotatable drum by an anchor received in said anchor pocket with the cable wrapped around the anchor. The anchor includes a first slot in a surface thereof and the rotatable drum includes a second slot therein adjacent to the anchor pocket that allows access to the first slot in the anchor. An edge of the second slot forms a fulcrum point for a pry tool inserted into the first and second slots for freeing the anchor from the anchor pocket.

Claims

1. A winch, comprising:

a motor;

a rotatable drum drivingly attached to said motor, said rotatable drum including a wedge-shaped anchor pocket therein;

a cable having a proximal end and a distal end, said proximal end being connected to said rotatable drum by a wedge-shaped anchor received in said wedge-shaped anchor pocket with said cable wrapped around said wedge-shaped anchor, wherein a side face of said wedge-shaped anchor includes a first slot in a surface thereof and said rotatable drum includes a second slot therein adjacent to said wedge-shaped anchor pocket that allows access to said first slot in said wedge-shaped anchor.

4. The winch according to claim 1, wherein said wedge-shaped anchor has a pair of side faces in which said first slot extends, and said second slot is aligned with said first slot when said wedge-shaped anchor is received in said wedge-shaped anchor pocket.

5. The winch according to claim 1, wherein said wedge-shaped anchor has a pair of side faces in which said first slot extends, and said second slot is aligned with said first slot when said wedge-shaped anchor is received in said wedge-shaped anchor pocket.

2-3. -3. (canceled)

6. A winch, comprising:

a motor;

a rotatable drum drivingly attached to said motor, said rotatable drum including an anchor pocket therein;

a cable having a proximal end and a distal end, said proximal end being connected to said rotatable drum by an anchor received in said anchor pocket with said cable wrapped around said anchor, wherein said anchor includes a first slot in a surface thereof and said rotatable drum includes a second slot therein adjacent to said anchor pocket that allows access to said first slot in said anchor;

wherein an edge of said second slot forms a fulcrum point for a pry tool inserted into said first and second slots for freeing said anchor from said anchor pocket.

7. A cable anchor for a rotatable drum, comprising:

a rotatable drum including a wedge-shaped anchor pocket therein; and

a cable having a proximal end and a distal end, said proximal end being connected to said rotatable drum by a wedge-shaped anchor received in said wedge-shaped anchor pocket with said cable wrapped around said wedge-shaped anchor, wherein a side face of said wedge-shaped anchor includes a first slot in a surface thereof and said rotatable drum includes a second slot therein adjacent to said wedge-shaped anchor pocket that allows access to said first slot in said wedge-shaped anchor.

10. The cable anchor according to claim 7, wherein said wedge-shaped anchor has a pair of side faces in which said first slot extends, and said second slot is aligned with said first slot when said wedge-shaped anchor is received in said wedge-shaped anchor pocket.

11. The cable anchor according to claim 7, wherein said wedge-shaped anchor has a pair of side faces in which said first slot extends, and said second slot is aligned with said first slot when said wedge-shaped anchor is received in said wedge-shaped anchor pocket.

8-9. -9. (canceled)

12. A cable anchor for a rotatable drum, comprising:

a rotatable drum including an anchor pocket therein; and

a cable having a proximal end and a distal end, said proximal end being connected to said rotatable drum by an anchor received in said anchor pocket with said cable wrapped around said anchor, wherein said anchor includes a first slot in a surface thereof and said rotatable drum includes a second slot therein adjacent to said anchor pocket that allows access to said first slot in said anchor;

wherein an edge of said second slot forms a fulcrum point for a pry tool inserted into said first and second slots for freeing said anchor from said anchor pocket.