ASME A17.1 HDBK : 2016

HANDBOOK ON SAFETY CODE FOR ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Introduction
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Summary of Code 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 [8.10.2.2.2(ii)(2)]
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 (2.13.3.4)
T - Inspection and Replacement of Steel Wire Ropes
U - Design Requirements - Traction Elevator
    Suspension System
V - Building Features for Occupant Evacuation
    Operation
W - Wind Turbine Tower Elevator Clearances
X - Acceptance Tests
Y - Maintenance Control Program Records
Z - Mass and Closing Time of Horizontally Sliding
    Elevator Doors
Index
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Abstract

Specifies requirements applying to the design, construction, installation, operation, testing, inspection, maintenance, alteration and repair of these conveyances.