CHAPTER 6 - ELEVATORS, DUMBWAITERS, ESCALATORS AND MOVING WALKS
(d) Elevator, Roped-Hydraulic - A hydraulic elevator
having its piston connected to the car with wire
ropes.
Elevator, Scenic - An elevator designed to permit
exterior viewing by passengers while the car is
traveling.
Elevator, Passenger - An elevator used primarily to
carry persons other than the operator and persons
necessary for loading and unloading.
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Elevator, Pit That portion of a hoistway extending
from the threshold level of lowest landing door to the
floor at the bottom of the hoistway.
Elevator, Private Residence - A power passenger
elevator which is limited in size, capacity, rise, and
speed, and is installed in a private residence or in a
multiple dwelling as a means of access to a private
residenie.
Emergency Stop Switch - A device located in the car
which when manually operated, causes the electric
power to be removed from the driving machine motor
and brake of an electric elevator or from the
electrically operated valves and/or motor of a hydraulic
elevator.
Entrance Locked Out of Service - An entrance in
which the hoistway door is mechanically locked by
means other than the interlock to prevent the door
being opened from the car side without keys or special
equipment.
Escatator - A powerilriven, inclined continuous
stairway used for raising or lowering passengers.
Escalators, Tandem Operation - Escalators used in
series with common intermediate landings.
Factory of Safety - The ratio of the ultimate strength
to the working stress of a member under maximum
static loading, unless otherwise specified in
particular rule.
Hoistway Access Switch - A switch, located at a
landing, the function of which is to permit operation of ,
the car with the hoistway door at this landing and the
car door or gate open, in order to permit access to the
top of the car or to the pit.
Hoistway/Shaft -
An opening through a building or
structure for the travel of elevators, dumbwaiters, or
material lifts, extending from the pit floor to the roof or
flow above.
Hoistway, Blind - The portion of a hoistway (
where normal landing entrances are not provided.
Hoistway Single - A hoisture (shaft) where normd
landing entrances are not provided.
Hoistway Enclosure - The fixed structure,
of vertical walls or partitions, which isolates
hoistway from all other areas or frorn an
hoistway and in which the hoistway doors and
assemblies are installed.
Hoistway Door Electric Contact - An electricrl[ I
device, the function of which is to prevent operation of a
the driving machine by the normal operating device
unless the hoistway door is in the closed position. !
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Hoistway Door / Gate Locking Device - A device I
which secures a hoistway door or gate in the closed d
position and prevents it from being upended from the
landing side excerpt under certain
conditions.
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Hoistway-Unit System - A series of hoistway door
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interlocks, hoislway door electric contacts or hoistway
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door combination mechanical locks and electric
contacts, or a combination thereof, the function d
which is to prevent operation of the driving machine by
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the normal operating device unless all hoistway doors [-r
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are in the closed position and, are locked in the closed rba
position.
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Hoistway Door Combination Mechanical Lock and ilt
Electric Contact - A combination rnechanical and bu
electrical device with two related, but entirely
independent functions, which are:
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(a) To prevent operation of the driving-machine by the
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normal operating device unless the hoistway door dur
is in the closed position; and
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(b) To lock the hoistway door in the closed position app
and prevent it from being opened from the landing bral
a side unless the car is within the landing zone. @n
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Note: As there is no positive mechanical connection
between the electric contact and the door-locking (a)
mechanism, this device ensures only that the door will
' be closed, but not necessarily locked, when the car
leaves the landing. Should the lock mechanism fail to
operate as intended when released by a stationary or
retiring bar-cam device, the door can be opened from
the landing side even though the car is at the landing.
lf operated by the normal operating device unless a[
hoistway doors are in the closed position and, where
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