HISTORIC 1900s "Pull the Rope" Freight Elevator
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- (4-13-19) A huge thank you to the people who showed me this amazing elevator! This is probably one of the most unique elevators I have seen! This elevator has a very fascinating drive system where pulling the rope engages belts onto different pulleys, which changes the direction. Please note this is a PRIVATE building!
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It's always fun to see elevators that have their original components to them.
Amazing! Just the sounds from that drive system alone makes me want to hear it in 5.1 channel surround sound.
The belt drive and pulleys remind of the waterwheel driven table saw at Hanson's Lumber Mill on Little House On The Prairie. With the foot engage/disengage clutch to shut it off.
Wow, that's cool!
I've seen another video of one of these but it's a passenger elevator but the video seems to have vanished from youtube. If I find it I'll come back here and link it.
I know what you were talking about. I’ve seen it.
What’s very funny is I live not too far from a building w/ some “pull-the-rope” or tiller-line freight elevators.
This is epic
what a wild elevator.
Awesome vid
Thanks!
2:23 It looks like there might be a name plate, did you see what it said?
What safety does this elevator have? Governor (which I don't see), broken rope safety, or no safety (elevator will freefall if cables snap)?
It is worth noting that the mechanism looks somewhat similar (though maybe not identical) to the 1861 Otis patent (also featuring 2 belts that slide from idle pulleys to a drive pulley when a rope is pulled).
Looks like broken rope saftey.
WOAH
What I said too 😂
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If possible, can you tell me what state this is in? I am curious since I think a few states (including California) sadly either prohibit or will soon prohibit pull rope or "shipper rope" elevators from operating.
Winding drum machine, appears to possibly be ceiling mounted.
This is one of the rarest types of elevators. Only some pull rope elevators use this drive system (and finding any pull rope elevator is incredibly rare).
This is an electric elevator (not a steam elevator)?
How many landings does this elevator have? Can this elevator be operated from all landings or just the one you were on?
Hard to tell but does it have only 2 cables?
Can this elevator only be operated from outside, or can it be operated from outside & inside?
Apparently, there were only three of this particular system made. Two which are in this building (one no longer works).
The machine is mounted to the ceiling.
An electric motor was added to drive the belt. There are controls on all three floors to control the motor. It can be operated from all three floors and from inside the car, however they do not allow anyone to ride in the elevator for safety reasons. It does indeed have two cables.
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Was this elevator originally steam engine powered?
I'm not sure if there only being 3 of this type of elevator is true or not. I know for a fact there were, and likely still are at least 2 more functional pull rope elevators (one in New York, one in Indiana) that have a similar drive system where a motor is constantly running when the elevator is in use, and pulling the rope connects the motor to the winding drum (and the motor does not appear to reverse no matter which direction the elevator is going). I don't know if these elevators use the exact same mechanism, but they seem similar. But it also depends on what exactly they meant about only 3 elevators of this type existing (I don't think I have heard of any other pull rope elevators in the United States still in service that can be operated from outside)
Did you film the other defunct elevator? Was that one also converted to electric at some point, or was it not converted?
It looks like these elevators do have machine rooms of some kind. Were you able to see the machine room for either elevator?
Looks like it does have hoistway doors? Are there no interlocks or gate switches on the hoistway doors (meaning the hoistway doors can be opened no matter where the elevator is, and the elevator will run with them open)?
@@upanddownadventures I don't know if it was originally steam powered. There were only three of this particular unit made. I never said there weren't others like it. The only part of the defunct elevator left is the machine which is out on display. The whole car was taken out and there is no motor on it. I did not look at the machine, but my guess is it is just a motor. No interlocks from what I could see.
@@upanddownadventures you saw the main machine. The ones I've seen are attached to a motor, but running of steam or water wheel probably was done on some of these units. There are plenty of books on Google about these kind of elevators and they're free.
This is very rare.
There were only three of these made.
@@stlelevators oh cool