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July - September 2008

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Picture of the Week
07-05-2008 (1 of 5)
This counterweight image is full of wonderful stuff...
Image provided by: Sherry Whine
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Picture of the Week
07-05-2008 (2 of 5)
First off - look at this compensating chain connection...wow!
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Picture of the Week
07-05-2008 (3 of 5)
Guided by wire ropes...
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Picture of the Week
07-05-2008 (4 of 5)
Is this the governor rope(s)?
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Picture of the Week
07-05-2008 (5 of 5)
She's smiling about something...
Image provided by: Sherry Whine
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Electric Elevators - Sheaves
07-12-2008
How is this counterweight guided?
Bradbury Building - Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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Image provided by: Christie Reagan
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Picture of the Week
07-19-2008
Is this yours?
Image provided by: Carlos Borghini
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Another Jan Dumno Special!

Picture of the Week
07-26-2008
Another excellent image from Jan Dumno in Germany!
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Jan writes:

"A passenger elevator in service in Vienna. Built in 1903 and to me it looks like they retrofitted a 2nd rope in 1970. Drum-type, no governor. There were 1000's of similar ones in Vienna 10-20 years ago...today we may still have around 200 very old ones.

"I think I understand now how this safety works. The 2nd rope may be leading to the counterweight. This is the only chance to connect a rope without obstructing the functionality of the safety. Don't know yet why they connected it to the car since it originally wasn't there. From other elevators I saw that this suspension typically is for one rope only and that a wooden hood would cover the top. The rope then would lead through a hole in the hood so that none of the framework would be visible. Original manufacturer MUST have been the "K. u. K. Hof- Aufzüge und Maschinenfabrik A. Freissler" which I would translate to "King and Empereor Royal's House Elevator- and machine works A. Freissler" - something like the English "by special appointment to H. M. the King of England."

I would also add:

1 - The rope in the foreground is the newly (1970) added rope.
2 - This new rope has an interesting fastening and terminating device (rope clamp or clip).
3 - The winding-drum machine has one suspension rope for the car and I am assuming one rope for the counterweight.
4 - Since there is no governor I am guessing that these are broken rope safeties and with the parting of the rope the safeties set instantaneously.
5 - Please note the design of the car guide rails (guides).
6 - You can very clearly see the design of the instantaneous safeties.
7 - I think the safety operated switch (contact) is on the rod leading over to the safety device on the side of the car facing us. (There appears to be a piece of conduit leading up to the contact.)
8 - The newly added rope might be in lieu of a device similar to The Lucas Safety Clamp in that this rope could provide support for the car and counterweight if either rope parted.

Thanks again Jan...this is the type of beautiful image that makes all of my work worthwhile!

Picture of the Week
08-02-2008
A ferry boat gets the shaft...
Image provided by: Junior Stromm
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Picture of the Week
08-09-2008
Measure twice...cut once!
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Image provided by: Al Read
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Picture of the Week
08-16-2008 (1 of 3)
Looks like 20 brush stems with 4 brushes each equals 80 brushes...
Hoisting machine at the Cullinan Diamond Mine, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Image provided by: Todd Falconer
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Picture of the Week
08-16-2008 (2 of 3)
This car holds 10 ton of rock and is powered by the machine above...
Cullinan Diamond Mine, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Image provided by: Todd Falconer
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Picture of the Week
08-16-2008 (3 of 3)
Short sections of the suspension ropes used on this elevator...
Cullinan Diamond Mine, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Image provided by: Todd Falconer
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Position Indicators - Catchall
08-23-2008
A speedometer and analog recording device for a mine elevator...
Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon, Wales
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Image provided by: Orin Brady
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Position Indicators - Catchall
08-30-2008
An elevator on a yacht.
It appears that the car enclosure walls are only about 42 inches high.
It almost appears as if the doors are way too wide for the opening...
but I suppose it's just an optical illusion.
Image provided by: Brad Jensen
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Picture of the Week
09-06-2008 (1 of 2)
Burwinkle-Hendershot Company in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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These are fire doors in the hoistway!
Image provided by: Sven Nord
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Picture of the Week
09-06-2008 (2 of 2)
Close-up of the doors showing the hinges and what I am guessing are
the 'fire links.' This looks like an overhead winding-drum machine
because the installation appears to have only two suspension ropes.
I'm also guessing it has car switch operation - not continuous pressure.
Image provided by: Sven Nord
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Picture of the Week
09-13-2008
A beautiful close-up of a combplate/tread interface...
Image provided by: Stan Nordstrom
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Picture of the week
09-20-2008 (1 of 2)
A few more images of the Baker Hotel - a favorite for photograhers
A derelict Otis machine - I think that is a chain driven selector...
The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Jorge Ramos
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Picture of the week
09-20-2008 (2 of 2)
I wonder if the first image was the service car and these are the passengers cars?
These have interesting selectors as well. Why the double sheaves?
Could this be the type of selector tape with no holes?
The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, U.S.A.
Image provided by: Jorge Ramos
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Picture of the Week
09-27-2008 (1 of 3)
Have you ever seen a geared machine with an offset like this?
Installed in a care home in Hawick in the Scottish Borders about fifty years ago.
These 3 images first posted at The ElevatorShack Forums...see what you've been missing?!
Image provided by: Charlie from LiftServe Scotland as seen at The ElevatorShack Forums
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Picture of the Week
09-27-2008 (2 of 3)
How about an external gear attached to the drive sheave...see the previous image once again
Image provided by: Charlie from LiftServe Scotland as seen at The ElevatorShack Forums
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Picture of the Week
09-27-2008 (3 of 3)
The controller...nicely maintained don't you think?
Image provided by: Charlie from LiftServe Scotland as seen at The ElevatorShack Forums
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