Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part I - Department of Labor and Industry › Chapter 7 - ELEVATORS, LIFTS, ESCALATORS, DUMBWAITERS, HOISTS ANDTRAMWAYS › Subchapter A - PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS › GENERALLY › Section 7.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Aerial passenger tramway
-A general usage
						which denotes a device used to transport passengers by single and double
						reversible tramway; chair lifts, gondola lifts and skimobiles; T-bar lifts,
						J-bar lifts, platter lifts and similar devices; or a fiber rope tow.
Automatic control elevator
-An elevator,
						the operation of which is controlled by electric buttons or switches in such a
						manner that all stops at landings are made automatically and which may be
						started by switches or buttons at the landing.
Basement
-A floor level partly or
						completely below grade as measured from the floor level immediately above; it
						shall be considered a story if more than 33-1/3% of the exterior wall perimeter
						is five feet or more above grade.
Basement lift
-A sidewalk
						elevator.
Bucket
-A metal bucket or tank operating
						in guides raised and lowered by steel cables and used for the purpose of
						distributing concrete or other building material to various floor
						levels.
Builder's hoist
-An elevator erected for
						temporary use, built in or adjoining a building under construction or
						alterations.
Car door or gate
-The door or gate in an
						elevator car.
Chair lifts, gondola lifts,
and
skimobiles
-A type of transportation in which passengers are
						carried on chairs or cars, or in gondola cabs attached to and suspended from a
						moving wire rope or attached to a moving wire rope or chain and supported on a
						standing wire rope or other structure.
Diameter
-Tread diameter when it refers
						to sheaves, wheels, or pulleys.
Double-button control elevator
-An
						elevator, the operation of which is controlled by self-centering buttons or
						switches located in the car and at the landings in such a manner that the
						elevator operates only when the button or switch is held closed manually and
						stops when the button or switch is released.
Double-deck
-An elevator consisting of a
						car structure containing two elevator cabs or compartments.
Drive sheave,
or
bull
						wheel
-The tread diameter which ranges from three to 14 feet, depending
						upon the type of installation. Either designation refers to the main drive
						sheave.
Dual control elevator
-An elevator
						capable of operation either by an authorized operator in the car or
						automatically by electric buttons or switches.
Dumbwaiter
-A miniature freight
						elevator.
Elevator
-A car, cage, or platform raised
						or lowered vertically in permanent guides or rails, including the necessary
						operating mechanism, used to transport persons or materials.
Elevator car
-The load carrying unit,
						including the platform supporting and guiding frame, and enclosure.
Escalator
-A moving continuous inclined
						stairway or runway used for raising or lowering persons. Wheeled vehicles of
						any type are not permitted on escalators.
Fiber rope tow
-A type of transportation
						which pulls skiers riding on skis by a traveling fiber rope which the skier
						grasps by hand.
Fire-resistive materials
-Approved
						materials having fire-resistive qualities, such as brick, concrete, hollow
						tile, terra-cotta blocks, or concrete plaster on expanded metal lath supported
						by metal studs of an approximate total thickness of not less than 2 1/2
						inches.
Freight elevator
-An elevator constructed
						and used for carrying materials.
Full automatic door or gate
-A door or
						gate which is opened and closed automatically by the motion of the elevator
						car.
Grade
-The level or the surface of the
						ground established by law, or on record where not established by law. This term
						includes the average level of the surface of the ground.
Gravity elevator
-A freight elevator used
						for lowering materials in a car, cage, or platform through a shaftway, the
						operation of which is accomplished by the excess weight of the car, cage or
						platform and the load over the car counterweights.
Hand elevator
-A freight elevator, the
						machinery of which is actuated by a rope or cable operated exclusively by
						hand.
Independently-operated door or gate
-A
						door or gate operated by power from an auxiliary source in no way derived from
						the motion of the car.
Landing
-The floor, balcony, or platform
						used to receive or discharge passengers or freight from an elevator car.
Landing door or gate
-The door or gate at
						the shaftway entrance of any landing.
Locking device
-A device which prevents
						the operation of an elevator away from the landing while any gate or door at
						that landing is open and unsecured and also prevents the opening of the door
						unless the car is at the landing; this term is also referred to as
						"interlock."
Lumber elevator
-A platform equipped with
						screws to raise or lower stacked lumber in a vertical direction at a speed not
						exceeding 15 feet per minute, with a travel not exceeding 20 feet.
Machinery
-The hoisting mechanism and
						equipment used in the operation of an elevator.
Manlift
-The type of elevator which
						operates by an endless vertical belt which revolves over fixed pulleys at the
						top and bottom limits of travel and to which steps and hand holds are attached
						so that persons may ride on it.
Manually-operated door or gate
-A door or
						gate which is opened and closed by hand.
Orchestra elevator
-A platform for
						raising and lowering musicians in an orchestra in a vertical direction at a
						speed not exceeding 15 feet per minute.
Organ console elevator
-A platform for
						raising and lowering an organ console, including the organist, in a vertical
						direction at a speed not exceeding 15 feet per minute.
Passenger elevator
-An elevator
						constructed and operated to transport persons.
Private dwellings
-Convents, rectories,
						and parsonages, which are ex- empt from this chapter, unless portions thereof
						are used for the housing or assembling of persons other than members of the
						religious order, if the occupancy is not in excess of 25 persons.
Rated capacity
-The capacity established
						by the designer of equipment.
Rope
-Wire rope, and cable are
						interchangeable, except for rope tows if rope means a fiber rope.
Safety gate stops
-A device which
						automatically stops a tramway when in contact with a passenger or the weight of
						a passenger.
Semiautomatic door or gate
-A door or
						gate which is manually opened but automatically closed when the elevator car
						leaves the landing.
Shaftway
-A shaft, well-hole, hatchway or
						other vertical opening or space, partly or wholly enclosed within which an
						elevator is raised or lowered in a vertical direction.
Sheaves
-Pulleys or wheels grooved for
						rope.
Sidewalk elevator
-An elevator which
						travels from a point below the sidewalk level to the sidewalk, or to an
						elevation not to exceed wagon or freight car loading level.
Single or double reversible tramway
-A
						type of transportation in which passengers are carried in one or more enclosed
						cars that reciprocate between terminals.
Stage elevator
-A platform consisting of
						a section of the stage arranged to be raised and lowered above and below the
						stage level in a vertical direction at a speed not exceeding 15 feet per
						minute.
Stairway inclined lift
-A power passenger
						inclined lift installed on a stairway for raising or lowering persons from one
						floor to another.
Standard railing
-A railing not less than
						42 inches in height with an additional rail midway between the top rail and the
						floor.
T-bar, J-bar and platter lifts
and
similar devices
-Types of transportation which pull skiers
						riding on skis by devices propelled by a main overhead traveling wire
						rope.
Toeboard
-A board at least 6 inches in
						height, placed at right angles with floor or platform to prevent objects from
						falling from the floor or platform to the spaces below.
Winch
-A hand or power-operated machine
						having a rope coiled on one or more drums for the purpose of hauling, hoisting
						or lowering a load.
Workmen's hoist
-A hoist installed in or
						outside of buildings during construction, alteration or demolition, and used
						primarily to raise or lower workmen and other persons connected with or related
						to the building project.
The provisions of this §
													7.1 issued under act of May 2,
						  1929 (P. L. 1518, No. 452) (35 P. S. §§
														1341-1356).