VDA - Elevator

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

• Elevator

• Escalator

British term for elevator

• Lift

• Slide

• Box

An elevator exclusively for the use of passengers

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumbwaiter

• 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

• Dumbwaiter

• Electric elevator

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

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumbwaiter

• Electric elevator

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

• Passenger elevator

• Freight elevator

• Dumbwaiter

• Electric elevator

The portion of a hoistway extending from the level of the lowest landing to the floor of the hoistway

• Elevator pit

• Bottom car clearance

• Buffer

The vertical distance from the floor of an elevator pit to the lowest part of an elevator car platform when the car rests on fully compressed buffers

• Elevator pit

• Bottom car clearance

• Buffer

A piston or spring device for absorbing the impact of a descending elevator car or counterweight at the extreme lower limit of travel

• Elevator pit

• Bottom car clearance

• Buffer

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

• Bank

• Bulkhead

• Penthouse

• Machine room