Elevators
The type of elevator that requires a pit.
What is a hydraulic elevator?
The type of step of an escalator.
What is interlocking?
The space that an elevator sits in.
What is an elevator shaft?
Type of elevator that costs less for initial installation.
What is a hydraulic elevator?
This hides in the BOT shop every day.
What is the rat?
The type of elevator that requires more maintenance due to more components.
What is a Traction elevator?
The type of escalator that has only been manufactured by Mitsubishi since 1985.
What is a Spiral escalator?
The part that people stand in when going 'for a ride'.
What is a car or cabin?
This is the first thing you should check if an elevator won’t run at all.
What is the power supply?
This is the ONE thing you should NOT do if an elevator breaks down.
What is try to force the doors open (or panic)?
MRL stands for this.
What is Machine-room-less?
The 'freeform escalator that curves in multiple directions, that shares a continuous loop of steps between 2 units and only a prototype exists of it'.
What is a Levytator?
The motor that lifts and lowers the elevator.
What is the hoist motor?
A loud squeaking noise may mean this part needs lubrication.
What are guardrails?
A customer says “it was making a weird noise”… this is your next step.
What is inspect and troubleshoot?
This type of elevator has no cables, piston or counterweights.
What is a Vacuum (Air-Driven) elevator?
The ype of motor most escalators use.
What is an induction motor?
This safety device stops the elevator car if its moving to fast.
What is the emergency brake (safety brake)?
If the elevator doors won’t close, this component may be dirty or blocked.
What are door sensors?
This is what your brain is focused on instead of work before a 4-day weekend.
What is sleep / food / relaxing?
This type of elevator system uses a counterweight system.
What is a traction elevator?
In the drive system of an escalator, the number of gears used in total: 4, 6 or 8
What is 4? 2 drive gears at the top and 2 return gears at the bottom
These open and close to let passengers in / out.
What are elevator doors?
If the ride is rough or jerky, this system may need maintenance.
What is the hoisting system (cables/sheaves)?
This is the unofficial sport of racing your family or friend on and off a people mover.
What is “who’s faster”? 😄