Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 158
PLANE. 147 and have oak blocks grooved for the rope on each side with the teeth in centre, as per drawing ofsection of rim, Fig. 2383, the rope passing twice round each drum instead of once as at the Gordon.This is rendered necessary to prevent slip at the high speed at which they are run. Fig.… … The fixed rendering drum in rear of engine-house is 14 ft. 6 in. diameter, and the movable onefor the tail rope at foot of plane 10 ft. 3 in. diameter. As an example of the work this machinery iscapable of doing, during the busy season of 1876 it raised from the valley to the summit an averageof…
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