Electric Elevators
Winding-Drum Machines
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Image 31 
Please note the rope and sheave in the foreground...
Is that the hand control rope or...?
Image provided by: Graham Wilson
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Hot Lake Sanitarium - La Grande, Oregon, U.S.A.
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The Winchester House in San Jose, Californis, U.S.A.
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A Graham Brothers machine - Stockholm, Sweden
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Another great shot of what appears to be a "machine final limit."
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Image 36
Another one of those flat motors...
Please note the flyball governor in the background.
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Image 37
Look how large the "machine final limit" or "machine stop switch" contacts are...
Some authorities required that "the main-line circuit to the driving-machine motor
and the circuit of the driving-machine brake coil...be directly opened" by this switch.
Please see the following image...
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Image 37A
As you can see, from the excellent A17.1/CSA B44 handbook by Edward A. Donoghue, this is what they may have in mind.
Image "borrowed" from:
A17.1/CSA B44 - 2007 Handbook on Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators by Edward A. Donoghue, CPCA
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Image 38
An interesting roping arrangement here...is there a rope missing from the drum?
Looks like there are four ropes connecting the car to the counterweight.
Look at the length of the gear case...is this a tandem wormgear arrangement?
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A dismantled Otis machine in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
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A type of "winding machine" used in a mine in Utah, U.S.A.
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The Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
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The Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
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Another Graham Brothers machine - Stockholm, Sweden
Image provided by: Eduard Gröller
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Another Graham Brothers machine - Stockholm, Sweden
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Another Graham Brothers machine - Stockholm, Sweden
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Another Graham Brothers machine - Stockholm, Sweden
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The Hedley Mascot Mine in Hedley, British Columbia, Canada
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The Ozark Bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.A
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A Dvina ballistic missile complex somewhere in the USSR
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A large gear case in relation to the drum...
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This sheave was used with the winding-drum machine...
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As you can see it has three grooves...I wonder if this machine had three ropes?
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Image 55
I do not know where this machine is located...
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