sheave

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The car, attached to the free ends of the cables, was hauled up as the piston drew the two sheave assemblies apart.

From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Vogel, Robert M.

The surfaces are lubricated by the water, but sometimes oil lubrication is provided for the eccentric sheave.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Opening my eyes, I thrust at the opening of the sheave with the end of the line; but it was knotted, and would not go through.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

Water, admitted to a horizontal cylinder, displaced a piston and rod to which a sheave was attached.

From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Vogel, Robert M.

Around the sheave passed a loop of chain, one end of which was fixed, the other running over guide sheaves and terminating at the crane arm with a lifting hook.

From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Vogel, Robert M.