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The Lift Market in Germany
[…] three years in Europe were dominated by the Eurozone crisis and the various bailout packages to overcome the governmental debt crisis in many Eurozone countries. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the European Union de-clined by 0.4% in 2012, and in the Euro-zone, by 0.6%. In 2012, even an economi-cally stable country like Germany could […]
Elevator Door Protection from TL Jones
[…] the elevator industry has helped TL Jones become a recognizable worldwide leader in elevator door-safety technology. In fact, in some parts of the world, the company’s Microscan® product has become a generic name for infrared door light curtains. Established in 1926 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Welshman Dr. Thomas Luftus Jones laid the foundation for […]
Functional and Reliable Lifts at New Van der Valk Hotel
[…] is interested in being our pilot in this, sees its added value and is willing to invest in this. We hope to be able to roll this product out across the whole of Europe at some point. . . . Although I obviously hope that we will never need to use this lift ‘for […]
Technology and Innovations: Elevator Inspector Speaks to Universities
[…] see it as the job of the department to have a healthy skepticism when it comes to new technology and exposing the public to some potentially defective product. The department is not responsible for helping manufacturers market their products, nor is it to stand unreasonably in the way of progress and the use of […]
Loaded Gap/Comb Impact Tool
Testing device fills a gap in escalator compliance verification. The Tolar Impact Tool is a dual-purpose product used to verify the stationary loaded gap test as noted in ASME A17.2, 7.17.2 (b) (1)-(8) and the comb-plate impact test A17.2, 7.7.2. The tool checks both the vertical and horizontal forces for setting comb and skirt […]
ADIASYSTEM
[…] for the following applications: Safeties Oil buffers Driving-machine brakes Braking systems, traction and traction limits The two ADIASYSTEM gauges contained in the “mini set” version of the product (Figure 1) and the appropriate software tools can replace all the aforementioned tests equivalently. The background and theories of the different alternative testing procedures are explained […]
Mentors
[…] trusses and elevator cabs that fortunately bore no resemblance to the final vertical-transportation system that was ultimately implemented to serve the buildings. Our efforts resulted in the production of more than 100 layout drawings and the review and approval of hundreds of elevator and escalator shop drawings. It was tedious work for us that […]
Electronic Theorems for Design and Repair Professionals
[…] paths can be added to construct a straight-line path. Then, the current is the same throughout the circuit, including within the source and load. Power is the product of current and voltage. Current flows from the source through the load and returns via a second conductor to the source. Power is more appropriately visualized […]
A History of Elevator Doors
The 75-year-long evolution of the elevator door featured various designs often driven by the need for greater safety.
Thoughts on Escalator and Moving Walk Maintenance
[…] determine the probability of entrapment of an escalator. It was developed by Arthur D. Little for the National Elevator Industry, Inc. in response to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission looking into escalator step/skirt entrapment accidents. The test measures factors relating to entrapment and quantifies them in an easy-to-understand format. The test is required […]