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  • A rope of this class for a pit 1200 metres deep, tapered from 15.6 in.
  • Now commonly used; but in very deep pits they are sometimes tapered in section to reduce the dead weight lifted.
  • Tapered round ropes, although mechanically preferable, are not advantageous in practice, as the wear being greater at the cage end than on the drum it is necessary to cut off portions of the former at intervals.
  • It was tapered up to a final width of about 3 ft.
  • 14), are tapered to a fine point or tongue, and rigidly connected together at such a distance apart that when one of the points is pressed against the outer or "stock" rail (a) of either the siding or the main line there is sufficient space between the other tongue and the other stock rail to permit the free passage of the flanges of the wheels on one side of the train, while the flanges on the other side find a continuous path along the other switch rail and thus are deflected in the desired direction.
 
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