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 "slug": "spanish-burton-single-mechanism",
 "name": "Single Spanish burton (3 : 1)",
 "kind": "hardware",
 "category": "Mechanisms",
 "group": "Pulleys and tackle",
 "year": null,
 "question": "How does a Spanish burton get 3 : 1 from two single blocks?",
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  "pulleys and tackle",
  "kinematics",
  "507 mechanical movements"
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  "spanish burton",
  "spanish barton",
  "runner tackle",
  "3 to 1 pulley",
  "aparejo español (burton)",
  "Spanische Talje"
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  "width": null,
  "height": null
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   "Rope 1 runs from the load over a fixed block and down to a runner block; rope 2 runs from the load over the runner and down to the hand. The runner is pulled down by both legs of rope 2 (2P) and held by rope 1, so rope 1 carries 2P; the load gets 2P + P: P = W/3.",
   "Here a pitch-Ø40 fixed block and a pitch-Ø20 runner; the two rope ends sit 30 mm apart on a load bar whose weight stem is on the line of the resultant (x = −10).",
   "Brown's No. 16 (Spanish barton). It is the 'third system' of pulleys with two sheaves: every rope ends on the load.",
   "Parts (each has its own page): tackle-beam-240-sockets, tackle-block-20-top-stem, tackle-block-10-top-socket, rope-sheave-3mm-pitch-40, rope-sheave-3mm-pitch-20, ropes-3mm-spanish-burton-single, tackle-weight-d40x40-socket, load-bar-40-sockets-m20-p10, dowel-pins-metric.",
   "Brown's movement No. 16 (1868) shows it; this model is a Xem Studio design following his figure, every part at true size."
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   "q": "How does a Spanish burton get 3 : 1 from two single blocks?",
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