STONE INSTALLING MACHINES

Image 16: Stone Installing Machine

Image 16: Stone installing machine with stone deflection sheaves for lowering of pyramid blocks up to 2.5 tons.

Model to scale 1 : 10
Water tank with glass pane for viewing lifting vessel
Deflection sheaves are fixed plastic rope pulleys, lubrication is candle wax
Lifting vessel keeps stone block in balance
Lowering of stone block by filling water tank
Lifting of stone block by opening of valve (1) on water tank
Workers as dolls for comparison of man and machine

Outlet valve of water tank
Transport slide of water tank
Water tank
Water level in water tank
Construction water line for lowering of stone blocks
Water line of free-floating lifting vessel including ballast
Lifting vessel filled with ballast water (app. 80%)
Glass pane
Rope deflection sheave of plastic, sheave fixed
Haulage ropes
Lowering support for Weights up to 5 tons (in the original)
Machine rack (soft wood)
Transport slide for lifting machine
Clamping device for lowering (and lifting) of stone blocks
Stone block (2.5 tons standard block, original)
Next stone block on transport slide
Transport slide on wooden rails

Image 16a: 3 water bearers to fill the stone-lifting machines

Image 16a: 3 water bearers to fill the stone-lifting machines (see Image 1, 8, 14, 15 and 16)

Amounts of water:

2 x 16 liters in tanks
1 x 26 liters in wicker baskets with animal skin (in this case plastic)

(Scene enacted by the author in 2012 on the river Nahm pa niang in Thailand)

Image 17: Stone rope

Image 17: Stone rope deflection sheave in guide groove in original size (approximate rebuild after the rope deflection sheave in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo – at present in Luxor).

Material is marble from Burma, production in Thailand
Tree haulage ropes, diameter 4 cm for lowering of stone weight up to app. 2.5 tons for stone
Installing machine (original)
Hight (a) and Wide (b) of the block: 25 cm/18 cm