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Measures must be taken to ensure that people cannot fall down a shaft or hoistway.

I'm not certain the hoistway even works any more; it's been a long time since anyone's been down there.

Heat generated from the cooling process is dissipated into the hoistway.

The access key switches will allow the car to move at reduced inspection speed with the hoistway door open.

No complaints involved a hoistway door, the name of the door on each floor that does not move up and down with the elevator.

Hydraulic elevators require less space for machine rooms, which can be remote from the hoistway.

A hoistway door is the one that opens onto each floor, and is not attached to the elevator cab.

Then Rhiannon let go, and without looking back, climbed into the hoistway and disappeared up a ladder.

Troi waited while Odysseus peered through the crack between the hoistway doors.

The condensed water produced has to be disposed of; otherwise, it would create flooding in the elevator car and hoistway.

One hoistway was for temperature testing.

The other ends of the cables are attached to a counterweight that moves up and down in the hoistway on its own guiderails.

Other than the machinery being in the hoistway, the equipment is similar to a normal traction or hole-less hydraulic elevator.

Some types of residential elevators do not use a traditional elevator shaft, machine room, and elevator hoistway.

Elevators have a car top inspection station that allows the car to be operated by a mechanic in order to move it through the hoistway.

A leather packing company was served with improvement notices for the risk of fatal falls from the edge of an unprotected hoistway.

"So I ran around the corner, and the hoistway doors were open, but the elevator car was only showing about two feet at the top of the door.

Inspection service is designed to provide access to the hoistway and car top for inspection and maintenance purposes by qualified elevator mechanics.

"The law does not mandate building owners to update old hoistway doors," said Kate Lindquist, a Buildings Department spokeswoman.

This room is located above the hoistway (or below, for hydraulic elevators) and may contain machinery for a single or a group of elevators.

Interlocks were fitted to the barriers around the hoistway, handholds were fitted and hooks were provided for employees to pull loads onto the landings.

Pioneered compensating cable technology with the patented Whisper-Flex(R) cable, setting new standards for quietness, economy and low maintenance in elevator hoistway applications.

Meanwhile Lomov wedged a huge piece of concrete against the one door into the room, and other Dissenters jimmied the elevator controls and forced open the elevator's hoistway.

A modern day lift consists of a cab (also called a "cage" or "car") mounted on a platform within an enclosed space called a shaft or sometimes a "hoistway".

The model numbers are found on the owner's manual and at the top of the elevator's controller, which is mounted at the top of the elevator in the hoistway or shaft, the commission said.