Trailing cable winch and method of operation

US6601791B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dornier GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Weimer · Markdorf, DE
• Ulf Thümer · Frankenberg/Sachsen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 5, 2003
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66D1/39
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Trailing cable winch and method of operation in which an axially stationary, rotating winding arm is disposed in a carrier tube and driven by a motor arranged in the carrier tube. The trailing cable winch is operable to deposit a trailing cable on an axially reversibly movable cable drum which is disposed on the carrier tube. The rotation of the winding arm is synchronized with the advancing of the cable drum, so that, during a linear movement of the cable drum, the advance per rotation of the winding arm corresponds exactly to the diameter of the trailing cable. In the end position of the cable drum, two cable layers are deposited above one another.