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BREAKTROUGHS AND

INNOVATIONS ON ELEVATORS
AND ESCALATORS DESIGN

platform or an enclosure raised


and lowered in a vertical shaft to
transport people or freight.
The shaft contains the operating
equipment, motor, cables, and
accessories.

In

ancient Greece, He developed an


improved lifting device operated by
ropes and pulleys, in which the
hoisting ropes were coiled around a
winding drum by a capstan and levers.

At

an abbey on the French seacoast,


a hoist was installed in 1203 that used
a large tread wheel. A donkey
supplied the lifting power. The load
was raised by a rope wound on a
large drum.

large tread wheel

rope

large drum

invented

elevators

the first safety brake for

In

1852, Elisha Otis was working as a


master mechanic at the Bedstead
Manufacturing Company in Yonkers, New
York. He was given the assignment to
design a freight elevator to haul the
companys products.

is the worlds largest


company in the manufacture
and service of elevators,
escalators, moving walks and
people-moving equipment.

Otis

KONE

Corporation has been


awarded a 2008 GOOD DESIGN
award for its innovative KONE
FourSeasons elevator design
concept.

power-driven, continuous moving


stairway designed to transport
passengers up and down short vertical
distances. Escalators are used around
the world to move pedestrian traffic in
places where elevators would be
impractical.

invention

of the escalator is
generally credited to him, as
an employee of the Otis
Elevator Company

HANDRAIL
HANDRAILPULLEY
PULLEY

TENSIONING
TENSIONING PULLEY
PULLEY
HANDRAIL
HANDRAIL
STEP
STEP

FRONT
FRONTWHEEL
WHEEL
RETURNINGSTAIRS
STAIRS
BACK
BACKWHEEL
WHEEL RETURNING
OUTER
OUTERRAIL
RAIL
INNER
INNERRAIL
RAIL
DRIVE
DRIVEWHEEL
WHEEL

CONTINUOUS
CONTINUOUSCHAIN
CHAIN

Several

innovations in escalator
manufacture have been made in recent
years. For example, one company
developed a spiral staircase escalator.
Another has developed an escalator
suitable for transporting wheelchairs.

Burj

Khalifa will be home to 57 elevators


and 8 escalators The building
service/fireman's elevator will have a
capacity of 5,500 kg and will be the world's
tallest service elevator.

Burj

Khalifa will be the first mega-high rise in which


certain elevators programmed to permit controlled
evacuation for certain fire or security events. Burj
Khalifa's Observatory elevators are double deck
cabs with a capacity for 12-14 people per cab.
Traveling at 10 METRES PER SECOND, they will
have the world's longest travel distance from
lowest to highest stop.

BREAKTROUGHS AND
INNOVATIONS ON ELEVATORS
AND ESCALATORS DESIGN

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