Elevators With Other
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Image 31 
Looks like an Otis lever hydraulic driving machine in London, United Kingdom
Image provided by: Sallie Fields
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Image 32
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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Image 33
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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Image 34
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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Image 35
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.
Image provided by: Roi Lung
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Image 36
On this drive you can see the backup roller and pinion...
Image provided by: Sam Kenisson
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Image 37 (1 of 2)
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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Image 38 (2 of 2)
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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Image 39
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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Image 40 
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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Image 41
The operating device (powered by a human) for the driving machine at the Thorez Coal Mine in Walbrzych, Poland
Image provided by: Paddy Workowski
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Image 42 
(1 of 3)
The remnants of a winding-drum hand elevator...
Cafe Des Amis in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, U.S.A..
Image provided by: Mary Smoores
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Image 43 (2 of 3)
Another angle...it appears to be secured in place as a server's station.
Image provided by: Clive Ranger
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Image 44 
(3 of 3)
An even bigger image...
Check-out the brake mechanism by viewing the larger size
Image provided by: Tad Parker
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Image 45
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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Image 46 (1 of 4)
An elevator installed in a wind turbine tower in Cohocton, New York, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Chris Cadinee
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Image 47 (2 of 4)
The driving machine appears to be a "cable climber"...
Image provided by: Chris Cadinee
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Image 48 (3 of 4)
As you can see the car guide rails are wire ropes...
Image provided by: Chris Cadinee
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Image 49 (4 of 4)
Looking down the "hoistway" (tower section)...
Image provided by: Chris Cadinee
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Image 50 
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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Image 51 
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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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Image 52 
(2 of 3)
Beautiful wooden guides and the masonry work looks nice as well ...
Image provided by: Raymond Roux
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Image 53 
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Sedgwick Machine Works - Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Raymond Roux
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Image 54 
The remnants of an old winding-drum hand elevator...
Image provided by: Herbie T. Mann
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Image 55
Lot's of wood here...
Image provided by: Paul Shure
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Image 56 (1 of 5)
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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Image 57 (2 of 5)
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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Image 58 (3 of 5)
Here's the machine...
Image "borrowed" from: An article in Elevator World - 'Spires of Steel'
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Image 59A (4 of 5)
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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Image 59B (5 of 5)
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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Image 60
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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