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Adriaan Rosel

Model of a Differential Pulley

Netherlands, ? United Kingdom, 1860

Object data

brass and rope

height 89.5 cm × width 18.5 cm × depth 7.5 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1147

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Model of a differential pulley.

A differential pulley or tackle consists of an endless chain going over two sheaves of different diameter at the top and a single sheave with a hook below. The difference in diameter between the two top sheaves implies that, when pulling the end coming from the larger sheave, less chain is fed to the lower sheave (over the smaller sheave) than is removed, and the distance between the two tackle blocks is diminished. This particular model is also fitted with a driving wheel with an endless rope, which transfers its movement to the tackle through a set of toothed wheels at a ratio of 58:10.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1147; Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen ... (1788-1880) (for different titles and editors during the years of publication see Bom 1885, Appendix K) 1862:1, pp. 433-34; Sesam Technische Encyclopedie, Wiesbaden, 3 vols., Baarn 1982, vol. II, pp. 417-18

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Adriaan Rosel, Model of a Differential Pulley, Netherlands, 1860', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244960

(accessed 14 November 2024 18:52:23).

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