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ASME A17.3 Safety Code for Existing Elevators and Escalators, 2017
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ASME A17 ELEVATOR AND ESCALATOR COMMITTEE ROSTER
- PREFACE
- ASME A17.3-2017 SUMMARY OF CHANGES
- Part I Introduction [Go to Page]
- SECTION 1.1 SCOPE [Go to Page]
- 1.1.1 Equipment Covered by This Code
- 1.1.2 Equipment Not Covered by This Code
- SECTION 1.2 APPLICATION OF CODE
- SECTION 1.3 PURPOSE AND EXCEPTIONS [Go to Page]
- 1.3.1 Purpose
- 1.3.2 Exceptions
- SECTION 1.4 DEFINITIONS
- SECTION 1.5 ALTERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, ANDINSPECTIONS AND TESTS
- SECTION 1.6 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
- Part II Hoistways and Related Construction for Electric Elevators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 2.1 HOISTWAYS [Go to Page]
- 2.1.1 Hoistway Construction
- 2.1.2 Windows in Hoistway Enclosures
- 2.1.3 Projections in Hoistway
- 2.1.4 Pipes, Air Ducts, and Wiring
- 2.1.5 Counterweight Guards
- SECTION 2.2 MACHINE ROOMS AND MACHINERY SPACES [Go to Page]
- 2.2.1 Enclosures
- 2.2.2 Access to Machine Rooms and Machinery Spaces
- 2.2.3 Lighting
- 2.2.4 Ventilation
- 2.2.5 Pipes, Air Ducts, and Wiring
- 2.2.6 Protection From Weather
- SECTION 2.3 PITS [Go to Page]
- 2.3.1 Access to Pits
- 2.3.2 Drains
- 2.3.3 Stop Switch
- SECTION 2.4 CLEARANCES AND RUNBYS [Go to Page]
- 2.4.1 Horizontal Car Clearances
- 2.4.2 Bottom Car Clearances
- 2.4.3 Bottom Car and Counterweight Runby
- 2.4.4 Top Car Clearance
- 2.4.5 Landing Sill Clearance
- SECTION 2.5 PROTECTION OF SPACES BELOW HOISTWAYS
- SECTION 2.6 HOISTWAY ENTRANCES [Go to Page]
- 2.6.1 Doors or Gates Required
- 2.6.2 Closing of Hoistway Doors
- 2.6.3 Hoistway-Door Vision Panels
- 2.6.4 Door Hangers
- 2.6.5 Nonshearing Astragals
- 2.6.6 Pull Straps
- 2.6.7 Bottom Guides
- SECTION 2.7 HOISTWAY-DOOR LOCKING DEVICES, PARKINGDEVICES, AND ACCESS [Go to Page]
- 2.7.1 Hoistway-Door or Hoistway-Gate Locking Devices
- 2.7.2 Closed Position of Hoistway Doors
- 2.7.3 Elevator Parking Device
- 2.7.4 Access to Hoistway
- 2.7.5 Restricted Opening of Hoistway Doors and/or Car Doors on Passenger Elevators
- 2.7.6 Hoistway Emergency Door Contacts
- SECTION 2.8 POWER OPERATION OF DOORS AND GATES [Go to Page]
- 2.8.1 Kinetic Energy and Force Limitations for Power-Operated Horizontally Sliding Doors
- 2.8.2 Reopening Device for Power-Operated Car Doors or Gates
- Part III Machinery and Equipment for Electric Elevators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 3.1 BUFFERS AND BUMPERS
- SECTION 3.2 COUNTERWEIGHTS
- SECTION 3.3 CAR FRAMES AND PLATFORMS [Go to Page]
- 3.3.1 Car Platforms
- 3.3.2 Platform Guards (Aprons)
- 3.3.3 Hinged Platform Sills
- 3.3.4 Floating (Movable) Platforms
- 3.3.5 Protection of Platforms Against Fire
- SECTION 3.4 CAR ENCLOSURES [Go to Page]
- 3.4.1 Car Enclosures
- 3.4.2 Car Doors and Gates
- 3.4.3 Location of Car Doors and Gates in Relation to Hoistway Door
- 3.4.4 Emergency Exits
- 3.4.5 Car Illumination
- 3.4.6 Protection of Light Bulbs and Tubes
- SECTION 3.5 SAFETIES [Go to Page]
- 3.5.1 Car Safeties
- 3.5.2 Counterweight Safeties
- 3.5.3 Safeties to Stop Ascending Cars or Counterweights Prohibited
- 3.5.4 Application and Release of Safeties
- 3.5.5 Maximum Permissible Movement of Governor Rope to Operate the Safety Mechanism
- 3.5.6 Rail Lubricants and Lubrication Plate
- 3.5.7 Overall Length of Guide Rails
- SECTION 3.6 SPEED GOVERNORS [Go to Page]
- 3.6.1 Speed Governor Overspeed and Car Safety Mechanism Switches
- 3.6.2 Governor Ropes
- SECTION 3.7 CAPACITY AND LOADING [Go to Page]
- 3.7.1 Minimum Rated Load for Passenger Elevators
- 3.7.2 Use of Partitions for Reducing Inside Net Platform Area
- 3.7.3 Minimum Rated Load for Freight Elevators
- 3.7.4 Capacity Plates
- 3.7.5 Signs on Freight Elevators
- SECTION 3.8 DRIVING MACHINES AND SHEAVES [Go to Page]
- 3.8.1 General Requirements
- 3.8.2 Winding Drum Machines
- 3.8.3 Indirect-Drive Machines
- 3.8.4 Brakes
- SECTION 3.9 TERMINAL STOPPING DEVICES [Go to Page]
- 3.9.1 Normal Terminal Stopping Devices
- 3.9.2 Final Terminal Stopping Devices
- SECTION 3.10 OPERATING DEVICES AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT [Go to Page]
- 3.10.1 Types of Operating Devices
- 3.10.2 Car-Switch Operation Elevators
- 3.10.3 Top-of-Car Operating Devices
- 3.10.4 Electrical Protective Devices
- 3.10.5 Power Supply Line Disconnecting Means
- 3.10.6 Phase Reversal and Failure Protection
- 3.10.7 Operating of the Driving Machine With a Hoistway Door Unlocked or a Hoistway Door or a Car Door Not in the Closed Position
- 3.10.8 Release and Application of Driving Machine Brakes
- 3.10.9 Control and Operating Circuit Requirements
- 3.10.10 Absorption of Regenerated Power
- 3.10.11 Reserved for Future Use
- 3.10.12 System to Monitor and Prevent Automatic Operation of the Elevator With Faulty Door Contact Circuits
- SECTION 3.11 EMERGENCY OPERATION AND SIGNALING DEVICES [Go to Page]
- 3.11.1 Car Emergency Signaling Devices
- 3.11.2 Operations of Elevators Under Standby (Emergency) Power
- 3.11.3 Firefighters’ Service
- SECTION 3.12 SUSPENSION MEANS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS [Go to Page]
- 3.12.1 Suspension Means
- 3.12.2 Rope Data Tag
- 3.12.3 Factor of Safety
- 3.12.4 Minimum Number and Diameter of Suspension Ropes
- 3.12.5 Suspension Rope Equalizers
- 3.12.6 Securing of Suspension Wire Ropes to Winding Drums
- 3.12.7 Spare Rope Turns on Winding Drums
- 3.12.8 Suspension Rope Fastenings
- 3.12.9 Auxiliary Rope Fastening Devices
- Part IV Hydraulic Elevators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 4.1 HOISTWAY, HOISTWAY ENCLOSURES, AND RELATED CONSTRUCTION
- SECTION 4.2 MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT [Go to Page]
- 4.2.1 Buffers and Bumpers
- 4.2.2 Car Frames and Platforms
- 4.2.3 Car Enclosures
- 4.2.4 Capacity and Loading
- SECTION 4.3 DRIVING MACHINES [Go to Page]
- 4.3.1 Connection to Driving Machine
- 4.3.2 Plunger Stops
- 4.3.3 Hydraulic Elevators
- SECTION 4.4 VALVES, SUPPLY PIPING, AND FITTINGS [Go to Page]
- 4.4.1 Pump Relief Valve
- 4.4.2 Check Valve
- 4.4.3 Mechanically Controlled Operating Valves
- 4.4.4 Supply Piping and Fittings
- SECTION 4.5 TANKS [Go to Page]
- 4.5.1 General Requirements
- 4.5.2 Pressure Tanks
- SECTION 4.6 TERMINAL STOPPING DEVICES
- SECTION 4.7 OPERATING DEVICES AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT [Go to Page]
- 4.7.1 Operating Devices
- 4.7.2 Top-of-Car Operating Devices
- 4.7.3 Anticreep Leveling Devices
- 4.7.4 Electrical Protective Devices
- 4.7.5 Power Supply Line Disconnecting Means
- 4.7.6 Devices for Making Hoistway-Door Interlocks or Electric Contacts, or Car Door or Gate Electric Contacts Inoperative
- 4.7.7 Control and Operating Circuit Requirements
- 4.7.8 Emergency Operation and Signaling Devices
- SECTION 4.8 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR COUNTERWEIGHTED HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS
- SECTION 4.9 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ROPED-HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS [Go to Page]
- 4.9.1 Top Car Clearance
- 4.9.2 Top Counterweight Clearance and Bottom Counterweight Runby
- 4.9.3 Protection of Spaces Below Hoistway
- 4.9.4 Piston Stops
- 4.9.5 Piston Connections
- 4.9.6 Car Safety Devices
- 4.9.7 Speed Governors
- 4.9.8 Sheaves
- 4.9.9 Slack-Rope Device
- 4.9.10 Suspension Ropes and Their Connections
- Part V Escalators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 5.1 CONSTRUCTION [Go to Page]
- 5.1.1 Balustrades
- 5.1.2 Clearance Between Skirt and Step
- 5.1.3 Guards at Ceiling or Soffit Intersections
- 5.1.4 Antislide Device
- 5.1.5 Handrails
- 5.1.6 Handrail Guards
- 5.1.7 Step Risers
- 5.1.8 Slotting of Step Treads
- 5.1.9 Combplates
- 5.1.10 Deck Barricades
- 5.1.11 Step/Skirt Performance Index
- SECTION 5.2 BRAKES [Go to Page]
- 5.2.1 General Requirements
- 5.2.2 Main Drive Shaft Brake
- SECTION 5.3 OPERATING AND SAFETY DEVICES [Go to Page]
- 5.3.1 Starting Switches
- 5.3.2 Emergency Stop Buttons
- 5.3.3 Speed Governor
- 5.3.4 Broken Step-Chain Device
- 5.3.5 Application of Brake
- 5.3.6 Broken Drive-Chain Device
- 5.3.7 Skirt Obstruction Device
- 5.3.8 Rolling Shutter Device
- 5.3.9 Reversal Stop Device
- 5.3.10 Tandem Operation
- 5.3.11 Caution Signs
- 5.3.12 Escalator Smoke Detectors
- SECTION 5.4 LIGHTING OF ESCALATORS
- SECTION 5.5 ENTRANCE AND EGRESS ENDS [Go to Page]
- 5.5.1 Combplates
- 5.5.2 Distinction Between Comb and Step
- 5.5.3 Adjacent Floor Surfaces
- 5.5.4 Safety Zone
- 5.5.5 Landing Access Plates
- Part VI Dumbwaiters [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 6.1 HOISTWAY, HOISTWAY ENCLOSURES, AND RELATED CONSTRUCTION [Go to Page]
- 6.1.1 Machine Rooms and Machinery Spaces
- 6.1.2 Clearances and Runbys
- 6.1.3 Doors or Gates Required
- 6.1.4 Closing of Hoistway Doors
- 6.1.5 Hoistway-Door Vision Panels
- 6.1.6 Hoistway-Door or Gate Locking Devices
- 6.1.7 Parking Devices
- 6.1.8 Access to Hoistway
- 6.1.9 Kinetic Energy and Force Limitations for Power-Operated Vertically Sliding Doors
- 6.1.10 Reopening Devices for Power-Operated Car Doors or Gates
- SECTION 6.2 MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT FOR HAND AND ELECTRIC DUMBWAITERS [Go to Page]
- 6.2.1 Buffers and Bumpers
- 6.2.2 Car Frames and Platforms
- 6.2.3 Car Enclosures
- 6.2.4 Car Doors and Gates
- 6.2.5 Emergency Exits
- 6.2.6 Car Illumination
- 6.2.7 Safeties
- 6.2.8 Capacity and Loading
- 6.2.9 Driving Machines and Sheaves
- 6.2.10 Normal Terminal Stopping Devices
- 6.2.11 Final Terminal Stopping Devices
- 6.2.12 Operating Devices and Control Equipment
- 6.2.13 Emergency Operation and Signaling Devices
- 6.2.14 Suspension Means
- 6.2.15 Chain Data
- 6.2.16 Factor of Safety
- 6.2.17 Minimum Number and Diameter of Suspension Ropes
- 6.2.18 Suspension Rope Fastenings
- SECTION 6.3 MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT FOR HYDRAULIC DUMBWAITERS [Go to Page]
- 6.3.1 Car Buffers or Bumpers
- 6.3.2 Counterweights
- 6.3.3 Car Frames and Platforms
- 6.3.4 Car Enclosures, Car Doors and Gates, and Car Illumination
- 6.3.5 Car Safeties
- 6.3.6 Counterweight Safeties
- 6.3.7 Capacity and Loading
- 6.3.8 Driving Machines, Valves, Supply Piping, Fittings, and Tanks
- 6.3.9 Terminal Stopping Devices
- 6.3.10 Operating Devices and Control Equipment
- 6.3.11 Additional Requirements for Counterweighted Hydraulic Dumbwaiters
- Part VII Hand Elevators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 7.1 HOISTWAY, HOISTWAY ENCLOSURES, AND RELATED CONSTRUCTION [Go to Page]
- 7.1.1 Enclosures for Machines and Control Equipment
- 7.1.2 Access to Machines and Sheaves
- 7.1.3 Pit
- 7.1.4 Clearances and Runbys
- 7.1.5 Hoistway Entrances: Type of Entrances
- 7.1.6 Hoistway Gates for Landing Openings of Hand Elevators
- 7.1.7 Closing of Hoistway Doors
- 7.1.8 Hoistway-Door Vision Panel
- 7.1.9 Hoistway-Door Locking Devices for Hand Elevator
- SECTION 7.2 MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT [Go to Page]
- 7.2.1 Buffers and Bumpers
- 7.2.2 Counterweights
- 7.2.3 Car Frames and Platforms
- 7.2.4 Car Enclosures
- 7.2.5 Emergency Exit
- 7.2.6 Illumination of Cars and Lighting Fixtures
- 7.2.7 Car Safety Devices
- 7.2.8 Capacity and Loading
- 7.2.9 Use of Partitions for Reducing Inside Net Platform Area
- 7.2.10 Driving-Machine Brakes
- 7.2.11 Power Attachments Not Permitted
- 7.2.12 Machinery and Sheave Beams, Supports for Hand Elevators
- 7.2.13 Suspension Means: Type and Number Required
- 7.2.14 Factor of Safety
- 7.2.15 Length of Suspension Members
- 7.2.16 Capacity Plate
- 7.2.17 Suspension Member Data
- Part VIII Sidewalk Elevators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 8.1 HOISTWAY, HOISTWAY ENCLOSURES, AND MACHINE ROOMS [Go to Page]
- 8.1.1 Hoistway, Hoistway Enclosures, and Machine Rooms
- 8.1.2 Location of Hoistway and Top-Landing Opening
- 8.1.3 Maximum Size of Opening Permitted in Sidewalk
- 8.1.4 Protection of Horizontal Openings in Sidewalks or Other Exterior Areas
- 8.1.5 Hinged-Type Swinging Doors
- 8.1.6 Vertically Lifting Covers
- SECTION 8.2 MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT [Go to Page]
- 8.2.1 General Requirements
- 8.2.2 Buffers and Bumpers
- 8.2.3 Counterweights
- 8.2.4 Car Frames and Platforms
- 8.2.5 Bow-Irons and Stanchions
- 8.2.6 Car Enclosures and Car Doors and Gates
- 8.2.7 Car and Counterweight Safeties and Governors
- 8.2.8 Capacity and Loading
- 8.2.9 Driving Machines and Sheaves
- 8.2.10 Terminal Stopping Devices
- 8.2.11 Locking Devices for Hinged Swinging Doors or Vertically Lifting Covers in Sidewalks or Other Areas Exterior to the Building
- 8.2.12 Requirements for Electrical Wiring and Electrical Equipment
- 8.2.13 Clearance Between Loading Side of Car Platforms and Hoistway Enclosures
- 8.2.14 Operating Devices and Control Equipment of Sidewalk Elevator
- Part IX Moving Walks [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 9.1 PROTECTION OF FLOOR OPENINGS [Go to Page]
- 9.1.1 Protection Required
- SECTION 9.2 PROTECTION OF SUPPORTS AND MACHINE SPACES AGAINST FIRE [Go to Page]
- 9.2.2 Protection Required
- SECTION 9.3 CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS [Go to Page]
- 9.3.1 Angle of Inclination
- 9.3.2 Geometry
- 9.3.3 Balustrades
- 9.3.4 Handrails
- 9.3.5 Pallet-Type Treadway
- 9.3.6 Belt-Type Treadway
- 9.3.7 Width
- SECTION 9.4 ENTRANCE AND EGRESS ENDS [Go to Page]
- 9.4.1 Combplates
- 9.4.2 Distinction Between Comb and Step
- 9.4.3 Adjacent Floor Surfaces
- SECTION 9.5 DRIVING MACHINE, MOTOR, AND BRAKE [Go to Page]
- 9.5.1 Brakes
- SECTION 9.6 OPERATING AND SAFETY DEVICES [Go to Page]
- 9.6.1 General
- 9.6.2 Starting Switch
- 9.6.3 Emergency Stop Buttons
- 9.6.4 Speed Governor
- 9.6.5 Application of an Electrically Released Brake
- 9.6.6 Broken Drive-Chain Switch
- 9.6.7 Rolling Shutter Device
- 9.6.8 Reversal Stop Device
- 9.6.9 Tandem Operation
- 9.6.10 Disconnected Motor Safety Device
- 9.6.11 Signs
- 9.6.12 Broken Treadway Device
- 9.6.13 Moving Walk Smoke Detectors
- SECTION 9.7 LIGHTING AND ACCESS [Go to Page]
- 9.7.1 Lighting of Treadway
- 9.7.2 Access to Interior
- Part X Private Residence Elevators [Go to Page]
- SCOPE
- SECTION 10.1 HOISTWAY, HOISTWAY ENCLOSURES, AND RELATED CONSTRUCTION [Go to Page]
- 10.1.1 Hoistway Enclosure Construction
- 10.1.2 Pits
- 10.1.3 Top Car Clearance
- 10.1.4 Protection of Hoistway Openings
- 10.1.5 Pipes in Hoistways
- 10.1.6 Horizontal Car Clearances
- 10.1.7 Guarding of Suspension Means
- SECTION 10.2 CARS [Go to Page]
- 10.2.1 Car Frames and Platforms
- 10.2.2 Car Enclosure
- 10.2.3 Number of Compartments
- 10.2.4 Car Doors and Gates
- 10.2.5 Light in Car
- SECTION 10.3 COUNTERWEIGHTS [Go to Page]
- 10.3.1 General Requirements
- 10.3.2 Location and Guarding of Counterweights
- SECTION 10.4 SAFETIES AND GOVERNORS [Go to Page]
- 10.4.1 Safeties Required
- 10.4.2 Operation of Safeties
- 10.4.3 Application of Safeties
- 10.4.4 Location of Speed Governor
- 10.4.5 Opening of the Brake Circuit on Safety Application
- 10.4.6 Governor Ropes
- SECTION 10.5 CAR AND COUNTERWEIGHT GUIDE RAILS AND FASTENINGS [Go to Page]
- 10.5.1 Material
- 10.5.2 Fastenings, Deflections, and Joints
- 10.5.3 Extension of Guide Rails at Top and Bottom of Hoistway
- SECTION 10.6 CAR AND COUNTERWEIGHT BUFFERS [Go to Page]
- 10.6.1 Buffers and Buffer Supports
- SECTION 10.7 DRIVING MACHINES, SHEAVES, AND THEIR SUPPORTS [Go to Page]
- 10.7.1 Overhead Machinery Beams and Supports
- 10.7.2 Material for Sheaves and Drums and Minimum Diameter
- 10.7.3 Fastening of Driving Machines and Sheaves to Underside of Overhead Beams
- 10.7.4 Factor of Safety for Overhead Beams and Supports
- 10.7.5 Hydraulic Driving Machine
- 10.7.6 Screw Machines
- 10.7.7 Rack-and-Pinion Machine
- 10.7.8 Set Screw Fastenings
- 10.7.9 Friction Gearing, Clutch Mechanisms, or Couplings
- 10.7.10 Use of Cast Iron in Gears
- 10.7.11 Driving-Machine Roller Chains and Sprockets
- 10.7.12 Driving-Machine Brakes
- 10.7.13 Emergency Operation (Manual)
- SECTION 10.8 TERMINAL STOPPING DEVICES [Go to Page]
- 10.8.1 Stopping Devices Required
- 10.8.2 Operation of Stopping Devices
- SECTION 10.9 OPERATING DEVICES AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT [Go to Page]
- 10.9.1 Type of Operation
- 10.9.2 Control and Operating Circuit Requirements
- 10.9.3 Key-Operated Switches
- 10.9.4 Phase Reversal and Failure Protection
- 10.9.5 Emergency Stop Switch
- 10.9.6 Slack-Rope and Slack-Chain Devices for Winding Drum and Roller-Chain-Type Driving Machines
- SECTION 10.10 EMERGENCY SIGNAL DEVICES [Go to Page]
- 10.10.1 Emergency Signal
- SECTION 10.11 LIMITATION OF LOAD, SPEED, AND RISE [Go to Page]
- 10.11.1 Capacity
- 10.11.2 Speed
- 10.11.3 Rise
- SECTION 10.12 MARKING PLATES [Go to Page]
- 10.12.1 Capacity Plate
- SECTION 10.13 SUSPENSION MEANS [Go to Page]
- 10.13.1 Types Permitted
- 10.13.2 Suspension Ropes
- 10.13.3 Factor of Safety of Suspension Means
- 10.13.4 Arc of Contact of Suspension Means on Sheaves and Sprockets
- 10.13.5 Spare Rope Turns on Winding Drums
- 10.13.6 Securing of Wire Suspension Ropes to Winding Drums
- 10.13.7 Splicing and Replacement of Suspension Ropes
- 10.13.8 Fastening of Wire Rope Suspension Means to the Car or to the Counterweight
- 10.13.9 Replacement of Chains and Sprockets
- Figures [Go to Page]
- Figure 3.7.1 Inside Net Platform Areas for Passenger Elevators
- Figure 5.3.11 Caution Sign
- Figure A-1 Distance Between Swinging Hoistway Doors and Car Doors and Gates
- Figure A-2 Distance Between Sliding Hoistway Doors and Car Doors and Gates
- Figure A-3 Typical Sliding Hoistway Door Space Guard and Sight Guard
- Figure A-4 Typical Swinging Hoistway Door Space Guards
- Figure A-5 Typical Space Guard for Swinging Doors With Cutout for Doorknob, Handle, or Pull Bar
- Figure B-1 Pusher-Type Roped-Hydraulic Elevators
- Figure B-2 Puller-Type Roped-Hydraulic Elevators
- Tables [Go to Page]
- Table 1.6(a) Reference Documents
- Table 1.6(b) Procurement Information
- Table 3.12.3 Minimum Factors of Safety for Suspension Wire Ropes
- Table 3.7.1 Maximum Inside Net Platform Areas for the Various Rated Loads
- NONMANDATORY APPENDIX A DISTANCES BETWEEN HOISTWAY DOORS AND CAR DOORS OR GATES
- NONMANDATORY APPENDIX B TYPES OF ROPED-HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS
- NONMANDATORY APPENDIX C A17.1-1987, Rules 211.3–211.8 [Go to Page]
- Rule 211.3 Firefighters' Service — Automatic Elevators [Go to Page]
- 211.3a Phase I Emergency Recall Operation.
- 211.3b Smoke Detectors.
- 211.3c Phase II Emergency In-Car Operation.
- 211.3d Switch Keys.
- 211.3e Interruption of Power.
- 211.3f Multideck Elevators.
- Rule 211.4 Firefighters’ Service — Designated Attendant Operated Elevators
- Rule 211.5 Firefighters’ Service — Elevators Arranged for Dual Operation
- Rule 211.6 Firefighters’ Service — Inspection Operation
- Rule 211.7 Firefighters’ Service Operating Procedures
- Rule 211.8 Standby (Emergency) Power
- NONMANDATORY APPENDIX D RACK AND PINION MACHINES (A17.1-1987, Rules 208.3–208.9d, and Rule 1200.4e) [Go to Page]
- Rule 208.3 Factor of Safety for Driving Machines and Sheaves
- Rule 208.4 Fasteners Transmitting Load
- Rule 208.5 Shaft Fillets and Keys
- Rule 208.6 Cast-Iron Worms and Worm Gears
- Rule 208.7 Friction Gearing and Clutches
- Rule 208.8 Driving-Machine Brakes
- Rule 208.9 Indirect-Drive Machines [Go to Page]
- 208.9a Belt and Chain Drives.
- 208.9b General Requirements.
- 208.9c Monitoring and Brake Location.
- 208.9d Replacement of Belts or Chains.
- 1200.4e Belts and Chains.
- INTERPRETATIONS [Go to Page]