Cable storage and retriever unit

Claim 1

A WIRE ROPE CABLE RETRIEVING AND PAYOUT DEVICE FOR AN AIRCRAFT ARRESTING WIRE ROPE CABLE COMPRISING, A FIXED SUPPORT, AN ELONGATED STATIONARY CABLE RETRIEVING, STORAGE AND PAYOUT DRUM FIXED ON SAID SUPPORT AGAINST ROTATION HAVING AN ELONGATED CYLINDRICAL CABLE RECEIVING PORTION EXTENDING AXIALLY AWAY FROM SAID SUPPORT, TERMINATING IN AN OUTER SUBSTANTIALLY CONICAL END PORTION FAIRED INTO THE OUTER END OF SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION, ARRESTING CABLE GUIDE MEANS FIXED IN CONCENTRIC OUTWARDLY SPACED RELATION TO THE APEX END OF SAID CONICAL END PORTION, MEANS FOR DEAD-ENDING A WIRE ROPE ARRESTING CABLE ON SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION ADJACENT SAID FIXED SUPPORT, CABLE RETRIEVING OR LAYING PULLEY MOVABLE ALONG THE SURFACE OF SAID DRUM SUBSTANTIALLY TANGENT THERETO IN PARALLEL RELATION TO SAID CYLINDRICAL CABLE RECEIVING PORTION THEREOF BETWEEN A POINT SPACED OUTWARDLY TOWARD THE OUTER EXTREMITY OF SAID CONICAL END PORTION TO A POINT ADJACENT SAID FIXED SUPPORT, MEANS FOR PRODUCING A PLANETARY MOTION DRUM SAID PULLEY CONCENTRICALLY AROUND SAID STATIONARY DRUM WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY ADVANCING SAID PULLEY ALONG SAID CYLINDRICAL DRUM SURFACE IN A DIRECTION FROM SAID FIXED SUPPORT TOWARD SAID CONICAL END PORTION AT A RATE OF AXIAL MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO THE AXIS OF SAID DRUM SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO BUT NOT LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE ARRESTING CABLE WHEN DEAD-ENDED ON SAID DRUM BY SAID DEAD-ENDING MEANS, DURING EACH CYCLE OF PLANETARY MOTION OF SAID PULLEY MEANS AROUND THE AXIS OF SAID DRUM, WHEREBY SAID PULLEY PICKS UP SAID ARRESTING CABLE AND WRAPS A LAYER OF COILS OF SAID CABLE ON SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION IN CLOSE SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATION FROM SAID DEAD-ENDING MEANS TOWARD SAID CONICAL END PORTION, SAID MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID PULLEY OUTWARDLY AWAY FROM SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION OUT OF THE PATH OF SAID CABLE EXTENDING FROM SAID CYLINDRICAL DRUM PORTION TO SAID CABLE GUIDE MEANS TO PERMIT THE WRAPS OF THE CABLE TO BE SEVERALLY WITHDRAWN ALONG THE SURFACE OF THE DRUM AND ACROSS SAID CONICAL PORTION WHEN THE CABLE IS WITHDRAWN THROUGH SAID ARRESTING CABLE GUIDE MEANS.