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Anchor winch equipment, for a motor boat, a yacht or a small-sized fishing boat, which ensures easy and simple paying out and hauling in of an anchor and whose power is supplied from a battery or a generator provided in said boat or yacht, is characterized in that when a drive motor built in a drum rotates in the winding direction, a changeover ratchet wheel having a drive pawl at one end transmits rotation to a drum and a feed cam shaft by means of a roller clutch fitted by a screw provided at the outer periphery of main shaft linked with motor shaft, causing the anchor rope to be wound in the same time when said drum begins to rotates, and a feed cam shaft simultaneously rotate to cause said anchor rope to be gradually wound along the surface of said drum, and that in the case of reverse of direction, said changeover ratchet wheel is immediately disengaged by means of said pawl and only said roller clutch moves together with said main shaft, both said drum and said feed cam shaft being disengages from said main shaft as a fixed ratio of rotation is kept therebetween, thereby permitting said drum to unwind an anchor rope by free rotation under the weight of an anchor mounted at the end of said anchor rope, and as the strain on said anchor rope is lessened when said anchor reaches the sea bottom, a band brake mounted at a side of said drum operates to instantly stop said drum by lowering of an operating weight suspended from said rope.

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