What is a "devil's ratchet"?

Hello. Every time I watch "Vabank", I wonder what the damn "devil`s ratchet" is. I searched half the Internet and couldn`t find it. Maybe someone knows?

Hello
I guess it`s some kind of hidden exit/passage

A one-way door that opens from the outside and closes itself, but cannot be opened from the inside. In short - the guy runs away, sees the door, enters and... Waits for them to let him out.

The prison was probably a kind of lock opened by a guard from the outside.

Doors like those in police cars. They ask us to sit in the back "let`s have a nice chat and chat".
Well, when we want to get off, they are kind enough to open it for us themselves.
Of course, when we deserve it. :D

Well, my friend reminded me that I was supposed to watch this movie once.
Well, at this point, it`s all over the place.
Well, nothing is lost, because I will probably have the opportunity again.

klm787 wrote:

Well, my friend reminded me that I was supposed to watch this movie once.
Well, at this point, it`s all over the place.

Both parts are on YT... You can watch it right now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOH0FA1eow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2BFRFF0Tk

Yes, I know, but it`s not the same as watching it on TV (there are more commercials on TV, you can`t fast forward)
But sometimes I use YT
I recently had a sleepless night and watched two episodes of "Ballad o Januszku"
But I`m not sure if I watched it to the end because I don`t know at what point the TV turned off

Pawl - a lever that locks a mechanism and prevents its reverse movement.
Devil`s ratchet - what does the word devil mean? Demon.
That is, "a demonic lever that blocks some mechanism and prevents its reverse movement."

To get out of the prison you have to go through the room with the devil`s latch, there is no other way.
The problem is that there was such a latch, but the prison employees did not use this solution for fear of the life of the prison warden.
So the devil`s latch is supposed to work regardless of the guards` actions.
Devilish - even at the cost of the chief`s life.
You don`t argue with demons. Only the exorcist remains, ha, ha!

Madrik wrote:

A one-way door that opens from the outside and closes itself, but cannot be opened from the inside.

So nothing extraordinary at all. However, such a mysterious name would suggest something more fanciful.

Maybe it was a trapdoor of the "wolf`s pit" type, where a trapdoor opens under a patient who is not authorized to pass through the gate and...
Another thing is that Chief Twardijewicz lived in his own psychologically narrow world and various strange ideas came to his head.
V

balonika3 wrote:

However, such a mysterious name would suggest something more fanciful.

It must be something fancy so that the guard cannot open it for fear of the life of the manager (I don`t remember the director) of the prison. The director may even die - after all, he ordered the guards to shoot even at himself while escaping - the guards didn`t do it. So the devil`s demonic trap is supposed to be deadly for anyone who ends up there and it is impossible to get out or escape at the cost of the prison director`s life. Of course, the devil`s latch must be made according to the model.

So this is a door for your mother-in-law?
Perhaps few people know, but there are such doors in screens on highways and roadsides. The door handle faces the road and on the other side there is only a key lock for the services.
So if someone gets caught on such a road, we don`t lock them up, we just put a stone under them or call a friend.

Regards.

Michał_74 wrote:

So this is a door for your mother-in-law?

It won`t work, my mother-in-law won`t get off there, and on top of that, there`s a ban on stopping and a big fine, and the prisoner will give up if he needs to.
However, this is a devil`s invention.

Here is the in-forest, bio-eco, biodegradable version from Vietnam.

KonradGatek wrote:

bio-eco,

Biodegradable, i.e. not effective after time.
So it probably doesn`t meet the criteria.

KonradGatek wrote:

Here is the in-forest, bio-eco, biodegradable version from Vietnam.

This is the well-known and popular "wolf pit".
Although in those areas it`s probably "dragon" or "tiger".

Technology older than mammoth hunters.