Talk:Paternoster lift

message: Being familiar with the paternoster in Leicester, I've often wondered how it works, but have never followed it up far enough to find out. What happens to the cabins as they go over the top (or bottom)? There is no vertical space between the cabins on the straight parts of the loop. If they are fixed to a belt, once they start to go around the end, the vertical speed should logically decrease. But it can't, because the cabins are already touching one another. That suggests it must "speed up" somehow.
The only diagram I could find is a Victorian one .
It appears that the drive belt is fixed to the outside of the cabins, while they are guided by a rail in the centre.
Does anyone know of a site with detailed diagrams of how paternosters work? If would make a good addition to the article.
--JRawle 21:53, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, there must be a gap. However, I don't agree that the piece of wood "slides in front of the entrance of the preceeding cubicle." When I went "over the top" in the Attenborough Tower, I didn't see the piece of wood slide in front. Could it be hinged so that it remains in between the cubicles as it goes over? JRawle (Talk) 22:48, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Paternosters are very slow-moving - such that I was able to use one as a child. Any accidents wull be shown to be related to maintenance(lack of) and/or human stupidity, such as trying to carry a piece of lumber into the cabin. 70.49.18.153 (talk) 16:55, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details of the mechanism - how does it work? 

message: Where? In Europe? USA? In the world? And who has been repsonsible for counting them?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.240.182.219 (talk) 12:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Five people were killed by paternosters from 1970 to 1993" 

message: Paternosters are quite commonly used to store items in a warehousing environment.
I've worked in a good few places where they are used and actively referred to as paternosters, maybe not in the traditional sense of the word but this usage is certainly notable and common enough to be somehow included in this article.
http://www.kastentornado.fi/linkit.asp?Linkki=RATKAISUT&kieli=eng&Aihe=4&tuoteid=4&tuoteryhmaid=1&avaa=General
http://www.kardexinternational.com/international/materials-handling-solutions/megamat.html
http://www.logismarket.co.uk/vertical-carousel-industrial-paternoster-ipn/345914833-cp.html
http://live.constructor-storage.com/en/Products/Storage-Machines-and-WMS/Vertical-Carousell-PATERNOSTER/
--Lakkasuo (talk) 17:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Materials handling 

message: As a Town Planning student at Newcastle in 1989. I used the Claremont Building lifts a great deal.  The rumours about people injuring themselves in the lift were rife but I do not recall the lifts being out of order for lengths of time nor do I remember ever having a paternoster there out of service.
I would be very interested in seeing this reference to the Claremont Building being validated - does anyone have anything as I have googled to no effect.  Very interested to see something written at the time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.119.95 (talk) 17:52, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claremont Building Newcastle 

message: Section removed by editor as unsourced, moving to Talk page for further editing and citation. DMahalko (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  contested list of remaining paternosters 

message: I declare the references 8 and 9, pertaining to Hitachi to be invalid due to the fact that they are in Japanese. Due to this, I cannot verify their veracity and I will remove them if there are no objections. Pablothepenguin (talk) 17:06, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read WP:NOENG - a source is not 'invalid' merely because it is in a foreign language. AndyTheGrump (talk) 03:39, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitachi 

message: "A paternoster was used in the Dalek headquarters in the 1965 film Dr Who and The Daleks."
Just out of curiosity I looked up the mentioned scenes in the movie and this is clearly not a paternoster rather than an elevator with open cabins.
-- Miczac (talk) 20:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  History / Examples : Daleks 

message: I feel sure that I've heard this, perhaps 50 years ago, as an alternative name for paternoster, but cannot find a citation.
"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." (KJV Gen. 28:12)
The parallel is obvious. Narky Blert (talk) 18:19, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: "Jacob's Ladder" usually refers to a large rectangular trap door to an attic which opens to a set of stairs. 70.49.18.153 (talk) 16:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Jacob's ladder

message: When I was at the London School of Economics (1979-82) we had a paternoster lift. There was much speculation about what would happen if you stayed in it at the top or the bottom. I never tried it!Bashereyre (talk) 08:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You just go round and round. No one dies, they just dangle. But having been in one a few times in Leipzig after the Mauerfall, I figured that the name derived from the prayer that was needed every time. 2001:171C:2E60:D7E1:514C:891B:D8D7:C1DF (talk) 18:08, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: And if you want to freak out anyone watching on the topmost floor, do a headstand while the car is going over the top… Mr Larrington (talk) 13:02, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: LSE Paternoster

message: Please see this list from the German Wikipedia.  References can be found on that page, too. Since it's just a list of locations I don't think it needs a lot of translating.  Plse. edit. 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Paternosteraufz%C3%BCgen
2600:1700:1C60:45E0:857D:F837:1900:6086 (talk) 16:12, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots more Paternosters surviving ... 

message: "The university had one or more" doesn't say which university (I presume that Vienna now has more than one university) or which building, and doesn't appear to have any reference. TooManyFingers (talk) 15:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surviving examples/Austria