Patent ID: 7114897

Claim:
A restraint for a vehicle having a wheel supportable by an elongate vehicle support, said restraint comprising: (a) a winch shaft rotatably affixed to said vehicle support; and (b) an elongate, flexible member having a first end portion restrainable to said winch shaft, a second end portion, and an intermediate portion between said first end and said second end portions, said second end portion and said intermediate portion respectively restrainable by said vehicle support, and a surface extending between said second end portion and said intermediate portion, said surface being capable of engaging and thereby restraining a circumferential surface of a wheel when said second end portion and said intermediate portion of said member are restrained by said vehicle support and tension is exerted in said member by winding said member on said winch shaft; said first end, said second end and said intermediate portions of said flexible member being respectively restrainable in alternative transverse positions with respect to said elongate vehicle support and winch shaft so as to align said flexible member laterally with said wheel.