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CH.11 VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION
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- 1*Characteristics: > use a rope and pull system > elevators system incorporated mechanical power to perform the hosting with water pressure and counter weighting *Vertical Transportation: > Is a blanket description for equipment and systems that move people and materials up and down a building -Types of Elevators: >Passenger Elevators: are designed with many safety features that protect the general public from harm while using the elevator system >Freight Elevators: are large elevators that have reinforced framing to accommodate extremely heavy loads that move horizontally across the elevator floor.-Components of Elevators:
>Hoistway:
+The elevators travel up and down a hoistway or elevator shaft.
+The bottom of the hoistway is the elevator pit which contains a buffer (Security)
>Machine Rooms:
+it contains mechanical equipment
+such as hoisting machines, hydraulic tanks, pumps, controllers and safety equipment
>Entrances:
+Each stop that elevator makes has an entrance
+It includes; frame doors, hall buttons

>Elevator Car: where the passengers ride
>Door equipment: safety device that prevents the doors closing
*Common Terms:
> Capacity
> Speed
> Travel

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