Rope walk
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A part of a building in factories of early mechanization is called a rope passage (also: rope shaft ). From the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the first decades of the 20th century (when the use of the electric motor , which was small enough to be built into individual machines), shafts were kept in large factories with many machines over several floors, in which the Main drive train ran. This design was particularly common in spinning and weaving mills .
The steam engine of these factories, mostly located on the ground floor or in the basement, drove the individual machines via a complicated system of shafts , ropes and drive belts : the central vertical shaft , driven by the drive engine, transported the drive energy via rope drums in a first step over several ropes made of cotton of transmission waves to the individual floors. These waves then ran - mostly below the ceiling - through the production rooms; from them the drive was conducted to the machines via transmission pulleys and leather belts.
For fire protection reasons and to avoid accidents, the main transmission to the individual floors was routed in a separate, brick walled enclosure, which often completely cut through the halls on the individual floors. The sealing of the waves breaking through the wall from these cable runs into the halls was easier than in the case of strongly vibrating, often sagging main drive cables. So these all ran in the rope course .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Drive by means of steam engines / high-tech in 1922 , Textilmuseum Rheine e. V.
- ↑ a b Stephan Jellinek, transmissions: shafts, bearings, couplings, belt and rope drives, systems , ISBN 978-3-64299-3-381 , Springer-Verlag , 1912 p. 139
- ↑ Carl Theodor Buff, workshop construction: arrangement, design and establishment of factory facilities. According to the operational requirements , C. Ramsauer (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-64247-4-286 , Springer-Verlag, 1923, p. 38