Elevator

A moving platform or cafe for carrying passengers or freight from one level of a building to another

• Elevator

• Escalator

• Dumb waiter

An elevator exclusively for the use of passenger

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumb waiter

• Electric elevator

An elevator for carrying heavy cargo on which the operator and the persons necessary for unloading and loading the freight are permitted to ride

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumb waiter

• Electric elevator

A small elevator for conveying food dishes or other materials between the floor of a building

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumb waiter

• Electric elevator

A row of elevator in high rise building controlled by a common operating system and responding to a single call button

• Bank

• Rise

• Penthouse

An elevator system consisting of a car that is mounted on guide rails supported by hoisting and cables and driven by electric hoisting machinery

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumb waiter

• Electric elevator

Also called traction elevator

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumb waiter

• Electric elevator

A vertical distance traversed by an elevator car from the lowest to the highest landing of hoist way

• Hoist way

• Rise

• Top car clearance

• Bottom car clearance

A structure housing elevator machinery on the roof of a building

• Pent house

• Bulk head

• Control panel

• Hoisting machinery

A vertical distance from the top of the elevator car to the nearest overhead obstruction when the car platform is level with the top landing

• Hoist way

• Rise

• Top car clearance

• Bottom car clearance