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Unit Mhe 2

Arresting gears and brakes are used to prevent a raised load from lowering on its own. Common arresting gears include pawl and ratchet mechanisms and roller ratchets. Pawl and ratchet mechanisms use a ratchet wheel and pawl so the load can raise freely but the pawl engages to prevent lowering. Roller ratchets work with brakes. Brakes are used to hold stationary loads and control lowering speeds, including manually operated shoe, band, and disk brakes or automatic centrifugal and weight-activated brakes. Crane grabs and clamps of various styles are used to handle different load types such as shafts or sheets.

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Unit Mhe 2

Arresting gears and brakes are used to prevent a raised load from lowering on its own. Common arresting gears include pawl and ratchet mechanisms and roller ratchets. Pawl and ratchet mechanisms use a ratchet wheel and pawl so the load can raise freely but the pawl engages to prevent lowering. Roller ratchets work with brakes. Brakes are used to hold stationary loads and control lowering speeds, including manually operated shoe, band, and disk brakes or automatic centrifugal and weight-activated brakes. Crane grabs and clamps of various styles are used to handle different load types such as shafts or sheets.

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Arresting Gears and Brakes
Are used to prevent the raised load from getting lowered of its own weight,

when the raising effort is withdrawn.


The common arresting gears are:

(a) Pawl and ratchet mechanism i.e. ratchet gearing: This comprises of ratchet

wheel and a pawl.


The ratchet teeth can be arranged external or internal to the wheel.

The teeth are so designed that the ratchet wheel runs free over the pawl when

the load is being raised, but the pawl gets engaged with ratchet tooth when the

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ratchet wheel tries to rotate in opposite direction (lowering direction of load).
During lowering of load, the pawl has to be kept deliberately away from
ratchet path.

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b) Roller ratchet or roller clutch: is used as an arresting gear in

combination with a brake.


Brakes: are used for dual purpose of holding the suspended load at rest and

for controlling the speed of lowering of load.


Some of these brakes are to be operated manually while some are

automatic.
Operated brakes include shoe, band, cone, disk brakes etc.

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Centrifugal brakes and brakes applied by weight of the load are

the automatic types.

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(b) Crane grabs and clamps of different styles are used for handling different
types of load.
Crane type grabs are used for carrying short or long shafts.

Clamps are used to grip sheet or plate type loads

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