BS 2655-1:1970
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Specification for lifts, escalators, passenger conveyors and paternosters General requirements for electric, hydraulic and hand-powered lifts
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English
02-24-1970
Co-operating organizations
Foreword
Specification
1 General
1.1 Scope
1.2 Factors of safety
2 Specific requirements for electric passenger and
goods lifts
2.1 Guides and fixings
2.2 Buffers
2.3 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
2.4 Car frames
2.5 Car enclosure
2.6 Car and landing entrance construction
2.7 Automatic power operation of entrances
2.8 Controlled power closing of entrances
2.9 Locking devices and switches for car and landing
entrances
2.10 Emergency devices and openings for cars
2.11 Car capacity and loading
2.12 Safety-gear
2.13 Governors
2.14 Suspension
2.15 Lift machines
2.16 Counterweights
2.17 Load plates
2.18 Controllers
2.19 Operation and operating devices
2.20 Suppression of radio and television interference
2.21 Terminal stopping and final limit switches
2.22 Main switches and wiring
3 Specific requirements for electric service lifts
3.1 Lift cars
3.2 Lift machines
3.3 Guides
3.4 Buffers
3.5 Counterweights
3.6 Suspension
3.7 Safety-gear
3.8 Load plates
3.9 Landing doors, shutters or gates
3.10 Terminal stops
3.11 Slack-rope switch
3.12 Main switches and wiring
3.13 Suppression of radio and television interference
4 Firemen's lifts
4.1 Location
4.2 Capacity
4.3 Doors
4.4 Speed
4.5 Fire switch
4.6 Electricity supply
5 Specific requirements for hydraulic lifts
5.1 Guides and fixings
5.2 Buffers
5.3 Top and bottom clearances and runbys
5.4 Car frames
5.5 Car enclosures
5.6 Car and landing entrance construction
5.7 Automatic power operation of entrances
5.8 Controlled power closing of entrances
5.9 Locking devices and switches
5.10 Emergency devices and openings for cars
5.11 Car capacity and loading
5.12 Safety-gear
5.13 Ram stops
5.14 Suspension
5.15 Hoisting machinery
5.16 Counterweights
5.17 Load plates
5.18 Control and controllers
5.19 Main circuit breaker or main switch, and wiring
5.20 Terminal stopping switches
6 Specific requirements for hand-powered lifts
6.1 General
6.2 Lift cars
6.3 Lift machines
6.4 Guides
6.5 Buffers
6.6 Counterweights
6.7 Suspension
6.8 Hauling rope
6.9 Brakes and sustaining devices
6.10 Safety-gear
6.11 Load plates
6.12 Landing doors
Tables
1 Governor tripping speeds and stopping distances
2 Minimum diameters of drums, pulleys and sheaves
Figures
1 Contract load for passenger lifts in relation to
net inside floor area (metric and imperial units)
2 Net inside floor areas for passenger lifts
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