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Looks like an Otis lever hydraulic driving machine in London, United Kingdom
Image provided by: Sallie Fields
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How about a little rack and pinion?
The drive in the middle is a zero-backlash rack & pinion drive.
Images "borrowed" from: Wikipedia, Atlanta Drive Systems,
An article in Elevator World - 'Rack-and-Pinion Gear-Drive System for Spires of Steel'
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Diagram of an inclined platform lift provided with a rack and pinion drive...
Image "borrowed" from: Jeanne Martin's Accessibility Lifts
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A rack and pinion hoist...
Please note the rollers on the back of the rack.
I think the upper pinion is the drive and the lower one the safety device.
Image provided by: Hal Needham
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This hoist has two drive motors. You can see one of the four "safety hooks" wrapped
around the guiding surface of the mast just to the left of the bottom drive pinion.
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On this drive you can see the backup roller and pinion...
Image provided by: Sam Kenisson
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The Mabbs Motor Counter-Balance Elevator...one of the first rack and pinion elevators!
Image "borrowed" from: The Mabbs Electric Elevator
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There are four pinions and four racks with a 2:1 roping arrangement and
the machine serves as the counterweight. This must have been awesome to work on...
as in, "I just love getting a root canal!" or "No really...please poke me in the eye with a sharp stick!" awesome!
Image "borrowed" from: The Mabbs Electric Elevator
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Somewhere in Mason, Texas, U.S.A.
The sign reads, "Installed when the building was constructed (1890's). The elevator
was used to move supplies and goods to and from the basement. It still works!"
It appears to be a winding-drum hand elevator with a broken-rope safety...
Image provided by: Slim Pickens
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The winding-drum machine for the elevator at the Gold Bar Mine in Arizona, U.S.A.
I think it might be a hand elevator...
Image provided by: Daryle Ward
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The operating device (powered by a human) for the driving machine at the Thorez Coal Mine in Walbrzych, Poland
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The remnants of a winding-drum hand elevator...
Cafe Des Amis in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, U.S.A..
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Another angle...it appears to be secured in place as a server's station.
Image provided by: Clive Ranger
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An even bigger image...
Check-out the brake mechanism by viewing the larger size
Image provided by: Tad Parker
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A diagram of a four-post counterweighted hand elevator...
Image "borrowed" from: Appleby's Illustrated Handbook of Machinery and Iron Work
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An elevator installed in a wind turbine tower in Cohocton, New York, U.S.A.
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The driving machine appears to be a "cable climber"...
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As you can see the car guide rails are wire ropes...
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Looking down the "hoistway" (tower section)...
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I think this is a winding-drum hand elevator...
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo, Japan
Image provided by: Shu Hai Tai
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A Sedgwick hand elevator that has seen better days...
Please note the counterweight to the left...
Image provided by: Raymond Roux
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Beautiful wooden guides and the masonry work looks nice as well ...
Image provided by: Raymond Roux
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Sedgwick Machine Works - Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A.
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The remnants of an old winding-drum hand elevator...
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Lot's of wood here...
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A traction drive tower elevator with a stationary counterweight...
As you can see - the car is roped 1:1 and the counterweight is roped 2:1.
Image "borrowed" from: An article in Elevator World - 'Spires of Steel'
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A few deflector sheaves, the counterweight, and the traction machine is also located here...
The WRAL-TV Tower in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Pinnacle height above ground - 1,999 feet
Image "borrowed" from: An article in Elevator World - 'Spires of Steel'
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Here's the machine...
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Another view of the "traction assembly" and the ropes
leading up into the tower...which has a rather narrow base!
Image "borrowed" from: An article in Elevator World - 'Spires of Steel'
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Please note the suspension rope connection under the car.
I wonder if a slack or broken rope under the car also sets the safety device?
Image "borrowed" from: An article in Elevator World - 'Spires of Steel'
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The "traction assembly" for a tower in Bertram, Texas, U.S.A.
Please note - the machine is located above the counterweight
and appears to be exposed to the weather...
Tower height above ground - 598 feet
Image provided by: Lomis Davidson
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