181 THREE SYSTEMS OF WIRE-EOPE TRAI^SPORT. dragging up the empty carrier on the ■ apart, each wheel being fitted with a second fixed rope by means of the Hght powerful brake, hauling rope, the speed being governed The hauling rope passes over the first by a powerful brake. This hauling rope of… … passes round a brake gear at the end of | diameter, placed horizontally in front at the incline. It consists of two vertical ' the feet of the two vertical wheels, and wheels, 5 feet in diameter, having ; then round the second vertical wheel ; grooved wooden rims, placed 5 feet '■ by this means the…
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