The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-19

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. All power driven elevators shall De
3 provided with automatic terminus ~,
4 stops on the machine. and also os
8 the shifting cables where nhnu
automatic folding doors are used. the
4 sion on the shifting cable may be
q omitted All electrical driven eieva-
10 tors shall be equipped with hatch
Ii h's sne 20 down SPEED COVER
? NORS All power driven elevators;
Z whether passenger or freight shall
a be provided with automatic uo"h
? Sps No elevator shall have greater
: working speed than six hunureu
s (6O0) feet per minute
ARTICLE %.
Saction 81 PASSENGER ELE-
VATOR SHAFTS. HON 49, 1870,
ED. All elevators USED Tor
ing passengers shall have ere, atoI
shsfts surrounded by vertlcai en-
Ensures. TO be made flush Win TUG
7 door opening at each story anu
& have doors at every smart oPeh"s
In buildings OF Type ana .
a construction. this enclosure must
n be OF hre-resisting mattrlal anu
2 must be continuous from moor 70
2 ceiling on the open side or the c.1I
a except for the TOP H1SSpi. enss Vii
be sufficient for such ehclosu.e.
7 on every other side OF the car Tue
enclosure shall not be less thah rN
3 CO. feet six go inehes IN neis 49,,
20 In all other buildings the shatt
n enclosure must be a solid wall ara
Q continuous from floor TO ceHing or
b every side and must be mace ol
"A freproof material, not less t niH
& four ca inches thick. or OF stcs'
,6 frame and wire glass, or both' ~
Il combination. Doors must De so''u
Is and sliding, ,,.
= In ali other cases shaft walls
81 a
Il building at least three 80 Zee.
q and the elevator roof house must
g be made OF ireproof materials an9
a have a skylight at least one -halt
S u-2) OF the area oil the shai'' shy-
8 light TO be glazed with sheet glass,
Z not wire glass
8 facilities for lighting the smart
section 20 FREIGHT ELENA-
2 TOR SHAFTS HOW ENCLOSED,
8 Freight elevators In all buildings
OF classes l. ?, and IS shall nave
5 the snaft enclosure made or nre-
s proof material not less than iour
7 Ia Inches thick and have Standard
\ Fire Doors except as described IN
= Section 20 OF this Article.
Section 20. HATCHWAf DOORS.
. For buildings devoted exclusively
3 to the sale. storage or manufacture
4 OF merchandise, freight elevators
8 extending through not more tnan
6 two t2) stories may he built with
Z out solid enclosing walls
All such elevators shall nave at
y every door through which they
U pass automatic hatch closers, or
/ automatic trap doors, made In sucn
. manner that they Will fully close
3 each we'll hole. when the tempera-
ture in such well hole exceeds one
8 hundred and sixty -nVe tlo3p ue-
8 grees Fahrenheit.
Section 25 ELEVATOR DOORS
? AND GATES. All elevator doors
. h.. ira
Standard Fire Doors. solid steel
) doors or doors OF steel and wire
glass.
Z All passenger elevator doors
s must be mace TO slide and must be
3 provided with lock. so made that
0 the doors cannot be opened from
the outside OF che smart. except
. with a key Passenger elevator
3 cars shall have but one door open
ing not less than thirty (30) inches
3 in width. The operating device
. shall be placed I'm such position
: in the car so that operator can
) guard said opening.
3 All freight elevators must have
. doors at every shaft opening, to
/ be solid and not less than one ana
= three.quaTters (l $40 inches thick,
) or any other door which has been
I approved for such purpose BY the
5 National Board OF Fire Under
s writer's.
: In all buildings OF Classes /. 4
D.,
3 Standard fire or steel and wire
. glass
i All freight elevators shall have
. at every hatchway or shaft open
3 ing. and In addition 70 the doors.
an automatic or self-closing gate
. IL the speed OF the car exceeds
8 seventy five (15D feet per minute.
: such gate shall not b. full auto
) matte.
3 Gates on Freight elevators must
D be at least three and one half
l g l-2) feet in height and to be
Standard elevator gates as APP
proved by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters.
Section 20. HEADROOM ABOVE.
CAR AND PIT. All power eleva
tors hereafter installed and having
car speed not exceeding two
hundred (200) feet per minute.
shall have. with the car level with
the top landing, a clear headroom
OF at least three 90 feet between
the highest part OF the car and the
D lowest part OF the overhead con
struction. For all additional ratI
OF speed the clearance shall be In
creased twelve G2) inches for
each additional one hundred tlOOJ
feet per minute. or fractional part
thereof The guides and guide !
posts shall extend TO the under |
side OF the overhead construction.
Every elevator shaft shah have
pit. so constructed TO allow a
12) inches when the car or plat
form is level with the bottom land
ing.
When the speed OF the car ex-
ceeds one hundred I0O) feet per |
minute. the depth OF the pit shall |
be increased twelve (l2D inches for I
each additional one hundred 400 |
feet per minute OF speed or frac-
tional part thereof. |
In every case the CONFERENCE.-The |
shall have the same clearance at |
the top and the bottom OF the (
shaft as provided for the car or
Section 80. ELEVATOR PRO
lection. Where CONFERENCE.-The |
travel In the same shaft with the |
elevator, the portion OF the car !
= Contiguous to the weights is 10 be |
= protected from top 10 bottom OF |
Z the car by suitable guard
; All freight elevators shall be |
. provided with guard or wainscot- |
y ing at least six CD feet high.
ARTICLE 80.
Section ? LOCATION IN BUILD |
: lNGS. Minor theaters. which arc !
: not In actual operation at the time
OF the adoption OF this Ordinance.
. shaN not be located above the
. ground moor OF any building within |
: the city Limits, nor shall any
minor theater contain balcony
y or gallery 10 be occupied by AN
audience
Buildings hereafter erected or
altered 10 be used as minor
3 theater shall have no living rooms
OF apartment on the upper floors
OF the, same building.
head twice by title ordered printed
md referred To Committee on Ordi-
1ances
from Clerk Of the Recorders Court. |
TO the Honorable the Common Council !
oentlemen,-l respectfully report TO |