Meaning of strap brake | Babel Free

Definitions

A brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object.

Examples

“The cable connecting the cars passed around a headwheel of 7 ft. dia. at the top of the incline, to which was applied a hand-operated strap brake. […] For half a century the railway was worked by water balance, at first with brakesmen on the cars, and later by an operator at the top station using a strap brake on the winding drum.”

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