Patent ID: 6073917
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: B66D

Abstract:
A guide structure for guiding rope into turns of a wound arrangement upon a generally cylindrical capstan rotating to receive said rope thereon, said guide structure comprising: a ramped guide member against which the rope travels in winding onto said capstan, said ramped guide member having a surface; a support member having a surface against which the surface of said ramped guide member is engaged; coupling structure on said surface of said support member and said surface of said ramped guide member for adjustably fixing the position of the ramped guide member relative to said support member as a result of contact between said surfaces of said ramped guide member and said support member in order to radially orient said ramped guide member to a selected position thereby to directionally adjust feed of said rope along said ramped guide onto said capstan to induce orderly arrangement of said rope turns thereon, without removal of any components of said coupling structure in attaining said adjustable fixing of said ramped guide member relative to said support member.