Patents Assigned to Meade Industrial Services, Inc.
  • Double drum level winding rope lift mechanism for luminaires on high lighting masts
    Patent number: 4851980
    Abstract: A winch having a pair of first and second cylindrical drums; a drive to simultaneously axially rotate the drum; a reciprocating bracket which travels substantially axially parallel to the drums when the drums rotate; the bracket having a pair of spaced apart first and second rope guides; the first guide being capable of receiving a rope being level wound on, or unwound from, the first drum; and the second guide being capable of receiving a rope being level wound on, or unwound from, the second drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Meade Industrial Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Archie McWilliams, Clyde A. Foor, Daniel J. Love