TRACTION DEVICE FOR LINE HANDLING EQUIPMENT

摘要

TITLE TRACTION DEVICE FOR LINE HANDLING EQUIPMENT INVENTORS George A. Fowler James M. Hamilton William J. Whiteway A traction device using grooveless traction rollers. An angled roller mounting arrangement allows a number of line wraps to traverse back and forth across the rollers, following the spooling on the storage reel without the aid of a fairlead system for deployment. The device provides for automatic separation of successive line wraps on the rollers to eliminate snagging of connectors or accessories attached to the line.