g on each side of the cable. each shaft of the upright sheaves is a loose, grooved drum, it bound the shaft. This was obviated by chipping away They are attached to levers so that they can be moved near and around these two drums are wound coils of asmall wire the inner edges of the brass. Then it… … of the station on which the cars are. The slack is taken up jects soas to form a cylinder, against the inner surface of nal channel was cut in the inner face of the under half of by weights hung on the wire, as shown in the engraving. which presses the wooden shoe of a brake. These brakes the…
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