New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals › Subchapter A - The Industrial Code › Part 8 - Construction, Guarding, Equipment, Maintenance And Operation Of Elevators, Dumbwaiters, Escalators, Hoists And Hoistways In Factories And Mercantile Establishments › Subpart 8-1 - Power Driven › Definition of Terms › Section 8-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Whenever used
						in this Part approved means approved by the Industrial Commissioner.
(b) Existing installations means
						installations made before March 1, 1923.
(c) Future; hereafter means installations
						made after March 1, 1923.
(d) Owner
						means the owner or owners of the freehold of the premises, or the lessee or
						joint lessees of the whole thereof, or his, her or their agent in charge of the
						property.
(e) Tenant means the
						person, firm or corporation in actual possession of the premises.
(f) Fireproof material means such material as
						specified in sections
						8-1.60, 8- 1.61
						and 8-1.62.
(g) Fireproof floor and
						roof[FN*] means a floor or roof so constructed and of such material as
						specified in section 264 and subdivision 2 of section 270  of the Labor Law and Industrial Code
						section
						8-1.60.
(h) Fireproof partitions[FN*] means
						partitions so constructed and of such material as specified in section 263  of the Labor Law and Industrial Code
						section
						8-1.61.
(i) Fire door[FN*] means a door so
						constructed and of such material as specified in section
						8-1.62.
(j) Elevator shall mean all the machinery,
						apparatus and equipment directly used in raising and lowering in a vertical or
						substantially vertical direction, persons or freight in a car, or platform
						operating in permanent guides or rails. This does not include
						dumbwaiters.
(k) Elevator car or
						platform means the car or platform which is operated either in an elevator
						hoistway or in an unenclosed area.
(l) Power elevator means an elevator in which
						the motion of the car is obtained by applying energy other than by hand or
						gravity.
(m) Hand power elevator
						(see §
												8-2.1,
						rules for hand power elevators).
(n) Passenger elevator means an elevator on
						which passengers or employees are permitted to ride.
(o) Freight elevator means an elevator used
						for carrying freight on which only the operator and the employees necessary for
						loading and unloading shall be permitted to ride.
(p) Dumbwaiter means all the machinery,
						construction, apparatus and equipment directly used in raising or lowering
						vertically a car, cage, or platform, shelf or shelves, the dimensions of which
						shall not exceed nine square feet in a horizontal section and four feet in
						height, and which are used exclusively for carrying small packages and
						merchandise.
(q) Platform elevator
						means a freight elevator, the platform of which is suspended from chains or
						cables from its four corners directly, or to two to one sheaves, and is without
						car crossheads and safeties.
(r)
						Sidewalk elevator means an elevator used for carrying freight and operated from
						a point below sidewalk level to the sidewalk or to a height not to exceed wagon
						or freight car loading level.
(s)
						Escalator means a moving continuous inclined stairway or runway used for
						raising or lowering persons.
(t)
						Automatic push button control elevator means an elevator, the operation of
						which is controlled by buttons in such manner that all landing stops are
						automatic.
(u) Hoist shall mean all
						machinery, apparatus and equipment when used in a hoistway for raising or
						lowering freight by means of a sling or hook without a platform or
						car.
(v) Electric elevator. An
						electric elevator is an elevator in which the motion of the car is obtained by
						an electric motor directly applied to the elevator machinery.
(w) Hydraulic elevator. A hydraulic elevator
						is an elevator in which the motion of the car is obtained by liquid under
						pressure.
(x) Plunger elevator. A
						plunger elevator is a hydraulic elevator having a ram or plunger directly
						attached to the underside of the car platform.
(y) Single belted elevator. A single belted
						elevator is an elevator in which the machine is connected to a reversible
						motor, engine or turbine by a belt or other similar means.
(z) Double belted elevator. A double belted
						elevator is an elevator in which the machine is connected to a separate source
						of power, such as shafting, by two belts or similar means, and in which the
						direction of motion is changed without reversal of the prime mover.
(aa) Elevator machinery shall mean the
						hoisting machinery and its equipment used in the operation of the
						elevator.
(bb) Winding drum
						machine. A winding drum machine is an elevator machine in which the cables are
						fastened to, and wind on, a drum.
(cc) Traction machine. A traction machine is
						an elevator machine in which the motion of the car is obtained by means of
						traction between the driving drum, sheave or sheaves, and the hoisting
						cables.
(dd) Hoistway means any
						shaft, well-hole, hatchway or other vertical opening or space unenclosed,
						partly or wholly enclosed, in which the elevator car or dumbwaiter travels or
						in which material is raised or lowered by means of a sling or hook.
(ee) Landing means that portion of a floor,
						balcony or platform used to receive and discharge passengers or
						freight.
(ff) Travel means the
						vertical distance traveled by an elevator or dumbwaiter from the lowest to the
						highest landing.
(gg) Sliding door
						means a door sliding in a vertical or horizontal direction.
(hh) Swinging door means a door, one or more
						sections of which may swing outwardly.
(ii) Combination slide and swinging door
						means a door, one or more sections of which are sliding and sections of which
						may swing out.
(jj) Full automatic
						door or gate means a door or gate which is opened automatically by the action
						of the elevator car approaching any landing and closes automatically through
						the action of the car as it leaves or passes any landing.
(kk) Manually operated door or gate means a
						door or gate which is opened and closed by hand.
Note:Hoistway doors that are closed through the action
						  of a heat-releasing device are not considered self-closing.
(ll) Self-closing door or gate means a door
						or gate which is opened manually and which closes automatically through the
						action of the car as it leaves the landing.
(mm) Power driven door or gate means a door
						or gate which is opened and closed by motive power other than by the movement
						of the car.
(nn) Interlock.
(1) An interlock is a device which shall:
(i) prevent the movement of the car:
(a) unless only that hoistway door or doors,
						opposite which the car is standing, are closed and locked (door unit system),
						or
(b) unless all hoistway doors
						are closed and locked (hoistway unit system);