Patent ID: 8567766
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: B60P,B66F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tensioning bar assist device, suitable for use with a tensioning bar used to adjust a truck winch, the tensioning bar having a winch coupling end and an opposed end having a pair of tensioning bar through bores, the assist device ( 100 ) comprising: a top surface ( a U-shaped exterior wall ( at least two through bores ( at least two fasteners ( wherein the top surface, bottom surface, and the U-shaped exterior wall define an interior space having five walled surfaces and one open side, and an interior width spanning the interior space between the top surface and the bottom surface sized and shaped to receive the tensioning bar opposed end, and wherein the at least two fasteners are sized to span the interior width, whereby the opposed end of the tensioning bar inserted into the interior space is secured thereto by the at least two fasteners (