Thglimited - Heavy Industries

I’ve been working with my dad as a landscape architect and performing estate maintenance. Our most recent endeavor is figuring out, first, how the home’s elevator works and, second, how to fix it. The problem lies in the fact that it is a HYDRO elevator and is entirely mechanically operated. A closed loop of chains and cables on pulleys opens and closes the valve through which water passes and creates pressure to raise the cab up the shaft. The mysteries are many. How does the cable only move so much to open and close the vale, while the cab moves from floor to floor. It is not a continuous loop in that the cable must only move not more than a foot, since it is actually bolted to one of the pulleys, or large wheel, in the system, preventing it from wrapping around this wheel.

Diagrams and photos to come.