Abstract: A hoist is a hoisting device wherein a pressure receiving member 6 rigidly secured to a drive shaft 5 is rotated by a press drive member 7 through a reverse rotation stop ring 10 and a pair of friction members 8,9 disposed on both sides of said stop ring. The member 7 is formed with a spring-loading hole 71 opening at the axially base side for accepting the tip 13d of a left hand coil spring 13 and a second engaging groove 7e opening at the axially base side extending radially outwardly. The groove 7e is inclined in the wind-down direction as it approaches the axially forward surface. The angle .alpha. formed between the wind-down directional inclined surface 7k of said groove 7e and the axially backward surface 7j of said member 7 is an acute angle.

Abstract: A fishing reel attachment for use on a rod-and-reel combination. The attachment includes an electric motor which is selectively usable to replace or assist the hand crank for the reel. The device is particularly adapted for use by an individual having the full use of only one hand.

Abstract: A fishing reel is provided with a display device. The display device is disposed on an upper surface of the reel main body and displays various kinds of measure information measured by a measuring instrument such as a fishing line length value and various kinds of set information. A display direction of display values in the display device is switchable in accordance with the specification of a handle or a visible direction. Further, the display values in the display device are arranged in a direction parallel to a direction in which a fishing line is played out.

Abstract: A drag system for a fishing reel provides thermal expansion of the spool by having an outboard bearing which does not direct any force against the proximate shoulder of the spool.

Abstract: An assembly for lifting items and work pieces that is collapsible for storage and that includes that includes a collapsible lifting structure and a detachable wheel assembly. The collapsible lifting structure includes a forked base member, a hollow vertical support tube, a derrick structure, a pulley assembly suspended, a winch assembly, and a cable having an end attached to a connecting hook. The vertical shaft is securable to the hollow vertical support tube in a first orientation for use with the extension arm positioned between the two legs of the forked base member and a second orientation for storage with the extension arm offset ninety degrees from its orientation in the first orientation.

Abstract: The present invention is a marine winch having a tension limiting clamp ring thereon, to permit the safe release of a line or halyard when forces become too great therewith. The winch has a base for attachment to a boat. A central driveshaft is supported on the base. A drum is disposed about the driveshaft. The drum has an upper flange and a lower flange thereon, the drum being arranged to receive a line thereabout. The upper flange has an inner hub disposed about the upper end of the driveshaft. A clamp ring is arranged about the hub, the clamp ring and the upper flange having opposed outer annular surfaces thereon arranged to receive a line therebetween. The clamp ring is movable with respect to the upper flange and the hub to provide a limitable force on a line disposed between the outer annular surfaces of the flange and the clamp ring.

Abstract: A protrusion, which has three stepped recesses inside, is formed on an outer surface of a spool cover at the center which is a confronting member of a spool. A thrust bearing is fixedly set in the bottom of the recess, and a bearing is fitted in the recess. A guide member is fitted in the recess. The guide member and the bearing are prevented from coming off by a spring washer. The guide member has an inserting hole into which a spool shaft is inserted which is slightly larger in diameter than the inside diameter of the bearing. The guide member has a tapered guide surface around the inserting hole to guide the spool shaft to the inserting hole. The guide surface and the inserting hole enables smooth insertion of the spool shaft into the bearing.

Abstract: The reel according to the invention comprises a spool support shaft that is held in a reel housing by its rear section and supports a front hub that comprises a front cylindrical coaxial barrel connected by means of a shoulder to a coaxial rear skirt. A line supply extends onto the front cylindrical coaxial barrel of the front hub and locks by means of an axial hole. The line supply comprises a solid front wall, blocking the axial hole toward the front.

Abstract: A spinning reel for fishing 10 comprises a spool shaft 17 reciprocal in an axial direction during rotation of a handle shaft and a being provided at a first axial end of the spool shaft. The reel includes an adjustable drag mechanism 23 including a core block fixed to the spool shaft, provided at a second axial end of the shaft, opposite to the first axial end of the spool, a rotor for winding line onto the spool and a switch means for selectively engaging between a first "normal" drag state in which the spool shaft is inhibited from rotating a free spool state in which the spool shaft may be free to rotate subject to the adjustable drag mechanism. A switch mechanism associated with the switch means comprises a plate adapted to move parallel to the axis 17A of the spool shaft, between a first and a second stable positions. The plate defines a protrusion at one end.

Abstract: A combination of a fishing reel and a one-way clutch handle comprising a ring with an inner periphery clutch surface, a mounting hole and a plurality of threaded mounting holes, a circular shaped clutch element having a rectangular shaped center hole, a plurality of cam surfaces and a plurality of flat surfaces forming a space wherein a spring and a roller are placed. A handle arm is fastened to the ring to form the handle.

Abstract: In a process for the winding of coils into axial slots disposed on the outer perimeter of rotationally symmetric bodies of electrical devices, at least one wire, guided by a winding arm movable about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the body, is laid into the slots via a winding form. The body is turned about its axis of rotation by the space of at least one slot after each laying of the wire into an initial slot, accomplished by an initial swinging motion of the winding arm about its axis of rotation, with the wire being laid into a second slot by a second swinging motion opposite to the first and guided back to the start of the first slot after the laying into the second slot for the formation of a coil winding by additional turning. A suitable winding form has a wire-guiding slit that ends in an undercut slot whose undercut surfaces fix the wire on the base of the slot until the completion of the following swinging motion of the winding arm.

Abstract: A device (10) for manipulating submerged-operating units (11), such as submersible motor-driven pumps, submersible motor-driven stirrers and the like, has a hoist, by means of which the unit (11) can be brought into a submerged working position and a surfaced maintenance position, wherein the unit (11) is provided with a lifting strap (25) of a coupling unit, whose coupling element (60, 60'), which can be brought into and out of engagement with the lifting strap (25), is provided on a pulling element (48) of the hoist.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for driving a winding head of a stator winding machine. The winding head is the end of a winding shaft which reciprocates and oscillates. The reciprocation of the winding shaft (5) is driven by rocking drive means (13) connected to motor means (10) and comprises means for balancing comprising at least two counter rotating counterweights (26, 31) which rotate about a driving shaft (12) in planes parallel to the axis of the wire winding shaft (5). The rocking drive means comprise a bar (22), orthogonal to the wire winding shaft (5) and to the driving shaft (12), which has a component of motion parallel to the wire winding shaft (5). The reciprocation stroke (8) and the balancing of the apparatus can be carried out with an easy operation from the outside (39) by means of a tooling, manual or automatic.

Abstract: An electrically powered hoisting system is operated by seating a line attached to the load to be hoisted in a groove formed between two sheave components and activating the electrical drive motor to rotate the sheave assembly. Voltage for the electrical drive motor is provided by an on-board 12 volt battery and voltage to the drive motor is controlled by means of a switch device. The groove formed by the sheave components has a resilient gripping surface that provides a firm line gripping action and hands-free and self-tailing operation. A davit, davit mounting brackets, and a flexible mounting assembly for mounting the powerhead assembly to a support are also disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for the assisted handling of a load includes at least one motor unit, which actuates the winding and unwinding of a flexible traction element; one or more guiding sheaves; and a detector for detecting the weight of the load and the force applied thereto, arranged at an element for supporting the guiding sheave that is arranged directly downstream of the pulley or drum actuated by the motor unit.

Abstract: A winch has two portions of respectively different diameters. A ridge between them permits line to be flipped from the larger diameter portion to the other. Surface treatments of the two portions may be different, with that on the larger diameter portion being less aggressive than that on the smaller.

Abstract: A transfer mechanism is operatively disposed between a conveyor for dynamo-electric machine parts (such as electric motor armatures) and apparatus for simultaneously processing a plurality of those parts (e.g., by winding coils of wire on those parts). The transfer mechanism delivers processed parts to the conveyor and receives unprocessed dynamo-electric machine parts from the conveyor, one at a time in a single alignment position, at least partly concurrent with the processing of other parts. Loss in production time due to wire breakage at the processing apparatus is reduced by substantially instantaneously controlling the broken wire (e.g., by retracting that wire relative to the associated wire dispenser) while continuing to move the wire dispensers.

Abstract: A fly fishing reel is disclosed which allows for a simplified construction allowing for reversibility of the drag effect on a spool to facilitate left- or right-hand operation without disassembling small parts which can be lost in the boat. The spool structure is strengthened by virtue of a tapered design. A snap-on cap doubles as a support for a spring that holds the spool to a shaft.

Abstract: To prevent a random coil of and an overwind of a belt with simple structure, a belt hoist includes a random coil preventing member pressed against the belt wound around a winding member to prevent a random coil of the belt, the random coil preventing member being movable in response to changes in diameter of the belt; and control means for controlling drive of drive means in association with the random coil preventing member when the diameter becomes a specified diameter. Further, a belt guide having a belt guide portion is supported between two side plates in such a freely sliding manner as to allow the winding of the belt onto the winding member.

Abstract: A spinning reel comprises a reel body casing, a rotational frame member rotatably provided for the reel body casing, a spool shaft provided for the reel body casing to be movable in a rotation axis direction of the rotational frame member, a spool mounted to one end portion of the spool shaft, a handle lever operatively connected to the rotational frame member capable of rotating the same, an oscillator secured to another end portion of the spool shaft, an oscillator gear provided for the reel body casing to be rotated by the handle lever and a rotational member mounted to the oscillator gear to be rotatable. The rotational member is formed with a first projection engageable with a cam groove formed to an inner surface of the reel body casing and a second projection engageable with the oscillator.