Inventory | Ethnography | Cricchetto
- Common name
- Ratchet
- Material
- iron
Description
The ratchet was used in the blacksmith's workshop to turn tools for drilling or turning. It consisted of a lever with a shaft fitted with a gear wheel, which was operated to transfer motion to a tool that was engaged in it.
Use
- Areas of use
- craft activities
- Specific use
- woodworking
- Craft
- carpenter
Preserved specimen
A kind of lever to which a shaft fitted with a gear wheel is attached at the fulcrum, which is locked by a flexible pawl attached to the lever, imparting motion to the contraption engaged in it, while it can turn in neutral, in the opposite direction
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00484
