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History Of The Item: This piece is a "Line Shaft Pulley", Comonly called "The Power Wheel" the piece getting its name from the fact that early wineries/ factories often only had one source of power. That power, be it electrical, steam or water, or horse drove one main shaft from which machinery was attached by wide belts from the pulley system. In some cases the main line shaft would run the length of the building. The pulleys would vary in size depending on the speed the machinery required. This wheel was later used with steam or stationary engines or electrical engines. If you had a wheel like that on your power supply be it steam; gas or electricity and a wheel on the machine you wanted to use, you would use a flat belt to connect the two together and then you would start the wheel on the engine and the machine would work.
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