Brake device, lever hoist, and ratchet mechanism

A lever hoist including a brake device which stops reverse rotation of a drive shaft transmitting rotation to a load sheave around which a chain is wound to prevent reverse rotation of the load sheave, the brake device comprising:

• a brake receiver pivotally supported in a non-rotatable manner on the drive shaft and including a flange part and a boss part;
• a female screw member pivotally supported in a rotatable manner on the drive shaft and screwed to a male screw part provided at an outer periphery of the drive shaft;
• a ratchet wheel sandwiched between the flange part and the female screw member facing each other, and including ratchet teeth provided on an outer peripheral side and configured to restrict a rotation direction to one direction;
• a brake plate arranged between the ratchet wheel and at least one of the flange part and the female screw member;
• and
• at least one pawl member engaging, on a tip side, with a valley part located between adjacent ratchet teeth, and meshing with the ratchet teeth,
• wherein
• the ratchet teeth include tall teeth and short teeth lower in projection height from a rotation center of the ratchet wheel than the tall teeth, the tall teeth and short teeth being alternately adjacent to each other and having equal pitch in the circumferential direction, and the lever hoist comprising:
• an operation lever configured to turn with respect to the female screw member;
• a switching claw for hoisting attached to the operation lever, and meshing in a hoisting direction with a switching gear integral with the female screw member;
• a switching claw for lowering attached to the operation lever, and meshing in a lowering direction with the switching gear;
• and
• a switching knob provided integrally with the switching claw for hoisting and the switching claw for lowering, and configured to switch with which of the switching claw for hoisting and the switching claw for lowering the switching gear meshes.