Elevator and Escalator Question and
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Elevator - correct answer ✔A moving platform or cage for carrying
passengers or freight from one level of a building to another.
Lift - correct answer ✔Bristish term for elevator.
Passenger Elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator exclusively for the use of
passengers.
Freight Elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator for carrying heavy cargo, on
which the operator and the persons necessary for unloading and loading the
freight are permitted to ride.
Dumbwaiter - correct answer ✔A small elevator for converying food, dishes,
or other materials between the floors of a building.
Bank - correct answer ✔A row elevators in a high-rise building, controlled by
a common operating system and responding to a single call button.
Penthouse - correct answer ✔A structure housing elevator machinery on the
roof of a building.
Hoistway - correct answer ✔A vertical enclosed space for the travel of one or
more elevators. Also called elevator shaft.
Bulkhead - correct answer ✔A boxlike structure on a roof providing access to
a stairwell or an elevator shaft.
, Control Panel - correct answer ✔A panel containing switches, buttons, and
other equipment for regulating electrical devices.
Hoisting Cable - correct answer ✔One of the wire cables or ropes used for
raising and lowering an elevator car.
Guide Rail - correct answer ✔One of the vertical steel tracks controlling the
travel of an elevator car or counterweight.
Traveling Cable - correct answer ✔One of the electric cables connecting an
elevator car to fixed electrical outlet in the hoistway.
Limit Switch - correct answer ✔A switch that automatically cuts off current to
an electric motor when an object moved by it, such as an elevator car, has
passed a given point.
Buffer - correct answer ✔A piston or sprint device for absorbing the impact of
a descending elevator car ir counterweight at the extreme lower limit of travel.
Landing - correct answer ✔The portion of a floor adjacent to an elevator
hoistway, used for the receiving and discharge of passengers or freight.
Elevator Car Safety - correct answer ✔A mechanical device for showing
down and stopping an elevator car in the event of excessive speed or free fall,
actuated by a governor and clamping the guide rails by a wedging action.
Hoistway Door - correct answer ✔A door between a hoistway and an
elevator landing, normally closed except when an elevator car is stopped at
the landing.
answers already passed 2025
Elevator - correct answer ✔A moving platform or cage for carrying
passengers or freight from one level of a building to another.
Lift - correct answer ✔Bristish term for elevator.
Passenger Elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator exclusively for the use of
passengers.
Freight Elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator for carrying heavy cargo, on
which the operator and the persons necessary for unloading and loading the
freight are permitted to ride.
Dumbwaiter - correct answer ✔A small elevator for converying food, dishes,
or other materials between the floors of a building.
Bank - correct answer ✔A row elevators in a high-rise building, controlled by
a common operating system and responding to a single call button.
Penthouse - correct answer ✔A structure housing elevator machinery on the
roof of a building.
Hoistway - correct answer ✔A vertical enclosed space for the travel of one or
more elevators. Also called elevator shaft.
Bulkhead - correct answer ✔A boxlike structure on a roof providing access to
a stairwell or an elevator shaft.
, Control Panel - correct answer ✔A panel containing switches, buttons, and
other equipment for regulating electrical devices.
Hoisting Cable - correct answer ✔One of the wire cables or ropes used for
raising and lowering an elevator car.
Guide Rail - correct answer ✔One of the vertical steel tracks controlling the
travel of an elevator car or counterweight.
Traveling Cable - correct answer ✔One of the electric cables connecting an
elevator car to fixed electrical outlet in the hoistway.
Limit Switch - correct answer ✔A switch that automatically cuts off current to
an electric motor when an object moved by it, such as an elevator car, has
passed a given point.
Buffer - correct answer ✔A piston or sprint device for absorbing the impact of
a descending elevator car ir counterweight at the extreme lower limit of travel.
Landing - correct answer ✔The portion of a floor adjacent to an elevator
hoistway, used for the receiving and discharge of passengers or freight.
Elevator Car Safety - correct answer ✔A mechanical device for showing
down and stopping an elevator car in the event of excessive speed or free fall,
actuated by a governor and clamping the guide rails by a wedging action.
Hoistway Door - correct answer ✔A door between a hoistway and an
elevator landing, normally closed except when an elevator car is stopped at
the landing.
