Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed · New York, Appleton · leaf 311
ced endlessrope by its tension gives the necessary adhesion (Fig. 654), and as the rope growsslack by use, taking it up by a fresh splice ; in the other the slack is taken u]iby a tension carriage. In both forms increase of power is met by multiplegrooves or pulleys and in the number of loops of… … Fig. 654. there are four grooves and lines of rope for adhesion; one line passes over thelarge standing 10-foot sheave B, thence round the tension pulley 0 on a weightedcar moving in inclined rails, thence over the sheave D to the line of bridge, over
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