ELEVATOR AND ESCALATOR
QUESTION AND 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.
Oil-hydraulic elevators - correct answer ✔An elevator system consisting of a
car supported by a piston that is moved by or moved against a fluid under
pressure.
Electric elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator system consisting of a car
that is mounted on guide rails supported by hoisting cables, and driven by
electric hoisting machine.
Lift - correct answer ✔The British term for elevator.
Passenger elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator for the exclusive 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 conveying food, dishes,
or other materials between the floors of a building.
Bank - correct answer ✔A row of elevators in a high-rise building controlled
by a common operating system and responding to a single call button.
,Rise - correct answer ✔The vertical distance traversed by an elevator car
from the lowest to the highest landings of the hoistway
Penthouse - correct answer ✔A structure housing an elevator machinery on
the roof of a building.
Top car clearance - correct answer ✔The vertical distance from the top of an
elevator car to the nearest overhead obstruction when the car platform is level
with the top landing.
Hoistway - correct answer ✔A vertical enclosed space for the travel of one or
more elevators.
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 slowing 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 hoistway and an elevator
landing, normally closed except when an elevator car is stopped at the
landing.
Elevator pit - correct answer ✔The portion of a hoistway extending from the
level of the lowest landing to the floor of the hoistway.
,Bottom car clearance - correct answer ✔The vertical distance from the floor
of an elevator pit to the lowest part of an elevator car platform when the car
rests on fully compressed buffers.
Bulkhead - correct answer ✔Boxlike structure on a roof providing access to a
stairwell or an elevator shaft.
Hoist-way machinery - correct answer ✔For raising and lowering an elevator
car; has motor-generator set traction machine, speed governor, brake, drive
shaft, driving sheave and gears.
Control panel - correct answer ✔Contains switches, buttons and other
equipment for regulating electrical devices.
Driving sheave - correct answer ✔A wheel or disk with a grooved rim, used
as pulley for hoisting.
Idle sheave - correct answer ✔A pulley for tightening and guiding the
hoisting cables of an elevator system.
Machine beam - correct answer ✔One of the heavy steel beams supporting
the hoisting machinery for an elevator.
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 a fixed electrical outlet in the hoistway.
Counterweight - correct answer ✔A weight balancing another weight to
counterbalance the load placed on the hoisting machine by an elevator car.
Limit switch - correct answer ✔Automatically cuts off current to an electric
motor when an object moved by it has passed a given point.
Buffer - correct answer ✔A piston or spring device for absorbing the impact
of a descending elevator car or counterweight at the extreme lower limit of
travel.
Machine-roomless elevators - correct answer ✔The revolutionary elevator
system is based on the first major breakthrough in lifting technology in nearly
100 years. Designed for buildings between two or 30 stories.
Gearless traction elevators - correct answer ✔Otis introduced the design that
would become the standard in the elevator industry. These elevators typically
operate at speeds greater than 500 feet per minute.
Geared traction elevators - correct answer ✔The electric motor in this design
drives a gear type reduction unit, which turns the hoisting sheave. These
elevator typically operate at speeds from 350 to 500 feet per minute and carry
loads of up to 30,000 pounds.
Main brake - correct answer ✔Mounted directly on the shaft of the elevator
machine. And the elevator is first slowed down by dynamic braking action of
the motor and the brake the operates to clamp the brake drum, this holding
the car still at the floor.
QUESTION AND 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.
Oil-hydraulic elevators - correct answer ✔An elevator system consisting of a
car supported by a piston that is moved by or moved against a fluid under
pressure.
Electric elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator system consisting of a car
that is mounted on guide rails supported by hoisting cables, and driven by
electric hoisting machine.
Lift - correct answer ✔The British term for elevator.
Passenger elevator - correct answer ✔An elevator for the exclusive 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 conveying food, dishes,
or other materials between the floors of a building.
Bank - correct answer ✔A row of elevators in a high-rise building controlled
by a common operating system and responding to a single call button.
,Rise - correct answer ✔The vertical distance traversed by an elevator car
from the lowest to the highest landings of the hoistway
Penthouse - correct answer ✔A structure housing an elevator machinery on
the roof of a building.
Top car clearance - correct answer ✔The vertical distance from the top of an
elevator car to the nearest overhead obstruction when the car platform is level
with the top landing.
Hoistway - correct answer ✔A vertical enclosed space for the travel of one or
more elevators.
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 slowing 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 hoistway and an elevator
landing, normally closed except when an elevator car is stopped at the
landing.
Elevator pit - correct answer ✔The portion of a hoistway extending from the
level of the lowest landing to the floor of the hoistway.
,Bottom car clearance - correct answer ✔The vertical distance from the floor
of an elevator pit to the lowest part of an elevator car platform when the car
rests on fully compressed buffers.
Bulkhead - correct answer ✔Boxlike structure on a roof providing access to a
stairwell or an elevator shaft.
Hoist-way machinery - correct answer ✔For raising and lowering an elevator
car; has motor-generator set traction machine, speed governor, brake, drive
shaft, driving sheave and gears.
Control panel - correct answer ✔Contains switches, buttons and other
equipment for regulating electrical devices.
Driving sheave - correct answer ✔A wheel or disk with a grooved rim, used
as pulley for hoisting.
Idle sheave - correct answer ✔A pulley for tightening and guiding the
hoisting cables of an elevator system.
Machine beam - correct answer ✔One of the heavy steel beams supporting
the hoisting machinery for an elevator.
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 a fixed electrical outlet in the hoistway.
Counterweight - correct answer ✔A weight balancing another weight to
counterbalance the load placed on the hoisting machine by an elevator car.
Limit switch - correct answer ✔Automatically cuts off current to an electric
motor when an object moved by it has passed a given point.
Buffer - correct answer ✔A piston or spring device for absorbing the impact
of a descending elevator car or counterweight at the extreme lower limit of
travel.
Machine-roomless elevators - correct answer ✔The revolutionary elevator
system is based on the first major breakthrough in lifting technology in nearly
100 years. Designed for buildings between two or 30 stories.
Gearless traction elevators - correct answer ✔Otis introduced the design that
would become the standard in the elevator industry. These elevators typically
operate at speeds greater than 500 feet per minute.
Geared traction elevators - correct answer ✔The electric motor in this design
drives a gear type reduction unit, which turns the hoisting sheave. These
elevator typically operate at speeds from 350 to 500 feet per minute and carry
loads of up to 30,000 pounds.
Main brake - correct answer ✔Mounted directly on the shaft of the elevator
machine. And the elevator is first slowed down by dynamic braking action of
the motor and the brake the operates to clamp the brake drum, this holding
the car still at the floor.
