Device for roping down or hoisting persons and/or loads from or to great heights

Device for roping down or hoisting persons and/or loads from or into great heights, including a suspension, a rope pulley rotatably supported by a base plate via a brake disk, with a brake lining being associated with the brake disk on one side along the base plate and on the other side along a pressure plate which is secured against rotation with a respective brake lining wherein pressure is applied onto the pressure plate by a tension bolt which traverses the brake disk and is connected with the suspension via a force deflection unit via which the weight of the person and/or load being roped down or hoisted is convertible into a tensile force on the bolt, and wherein the brake disk is connected to a concentric gear rim in mesh with a gearing which is supported in the base plate, and further including at least a centrifugal brake unit which is driven by the gearing, wherein the suspension (16) is formed by a tie rod (15) preferably guided for displacement on the base plate (1) and having one end (19) pivotably supported on one arm of a bell-crank lever (17) which is pivotably supported on the base plate (1) and has an other arm pivotably connected with the tension bolt (9).