Table of Contents

ASME Foreword
ASME Committee Roster
CSA Committees
ASME Preface
CSA Preface
Summary of Changes
Part 1 - General
Part 2 - Electric Elevators
Part 3 - Hydraulic Elevators
Part 4 - Elevators With Other Types of Driving Machines
Part 5 - Special Application Elevators
Part 6 - Escalators and Moving Walks
Part 7 - Dumbwaiters and Material Lifts
Part 8 - General Requirements
Part 9 - Reference Codes, Standards, and Specifications
Nonmandatory Appendices
A - Control System
B - Unlocking Zone
C - Location of Top Emergency Exit
D - Rated Load and Capacity Plates for Passenger Elevators
E - Elevator Requirements for Persons With Physical
    Disabilities in Jurisdictions Enforcing NBCC
F - Ascending Car Overspeed and Unintended Car Movement
    Protection
G - Top-of-Car Clearance
H - Private Residence Elevator Guarding
I - Escalator and Moving Walk Diagrams
J - Relationship of Pit Ladder to Hoistway Door Unlocking
    Means
K - Beveling and Clearance Requirements
L - Index of Alteration Requirements for Electric Elevators,
    Hydraulic Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Walks
M - Inertia Application for Type A Safety Device Location
    of Test Weight
N - Recommended Inspection and Test Intervals in 'Months'
P - Plunger Gripper Stopping Distances
Q - Explanatory Figures for the Definitions of Elevator
    Machinery Space, Machine Room, Control Space, Control
    Room, Remote Machine Room, or Remote Control Room
R - Inspection Operation and Hoistway Access Switch
    Operation Hierarchy
S - Vertically Sliding Doors - Illustrations of Detection
    Zones
T - Deleted
U - Design Requirements - Traction Elevator Suspension
    System
V - Building Features for Occupant Evacuation Operation
W - Deleted
X - Acceptance Tests
Y - Maintenance Control Program Records
Z - Mass and Closing Time of Horizontally Sliding Elevator Doors
Index

Abstract

Describes the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following equipment and its associated parts, rooms, spaces, and hoistways, where located in or adjacent to a building or structure: (a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a car, that move between two or more landings; (b) power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons between landings; and (c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car that serves two or more landings and is restricted to the carrying of material by its limited size or limited access to the car.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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