US Patent Issued to BPG-ARROWHEAD WINCH on Sept. 2 for "Winch or hoist having a gearbox with high-contact ratio gears" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,155, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BPG-ARROWHEAD WINCH INC. (Broken Arrow, Okla.).

"Winch or hoist having a gearbox with high-contact ratio gears" was invented by Brian Holdeman (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Daryl Toole (Broken Arrow, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winch or a hoist (100) includes an input shaft, a rotatable drum (112), and a gearbox (120) including a plurality of high-contact ratio spur-type gears, the gearbox coupled to the input shaft and to the rotatable drum such that rotation of the input shaft at a first speed drives rotation of the rotatable drum at a second speed that is different than the first spee...