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Freight Elevator Gates
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Someone likes blue...
Image provided by: Gean Walker
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A wooden hoistway gate plus metal fire doors
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Somewhere in London, United Kingdom (1 of 2)
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A close-up of the gate in Image 3 (2 of 2)
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A derelict brewery in Grodzisk, Poland
I think that is the frame for the gate...but I am not sure
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It appears that the handles are used to gain access to the landing
which appears to be designed for truck loading/unloading
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Pfister and Vogel tannery - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
I'm not sure what I am looking at here...the wooden gate looks awfully short and the
chains appear to be attached to the underside of the car - are they "warning chains?"
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Northampton State Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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See that rectangular hole in the left side of the gate...
I wonder if this elevator was/is controlled by a rope actuated operating device?
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Murray Mill - Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Please notice how the bottom of the gate is "notched" to allow
as clear an opening as possible when in the fully open postion
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I'm not sure why this gate is hinged as it is. Perhaps once it rises as high as
it can the bottom part swings up and attaches to the ceiling of the landing?
I've seen a few old freight elevators that had a very short gate at the top landing because
of limited overhead space in the hoistway...maybe this was a way to provide a taller gate.
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Hoistway Gates for Freight Elevators

Shorter hoistway landing gates were permitted, at one time, by California's Elevator Safety Orders as well as other local, state, and model codes.

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California Elevator Safety Orders - Effective June 5, 1947

3020. Hoistway Gates.

(a) Freight elevator hoistway entrances may be equipped with gates instead of doors.

(b) If gates are used, they shall fill the entire opening or be at least sixty-six (66) inches high, except that the top landing gate may be not less than forty-one (41) nor more than forty-five (45) inches high, where structual conditions make sixty-six (66) inch gates impractical.

Where gates less than sixty-six (66) inches are used, the car top where provided, shall be hinged back at least eighteen (18) inches from the landing threshold, and no rigid horizontal or projecting member between the vertical sides of the car enclosure shall extend closer than twelve (12) inches from the landing threshold.

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I believe the last part of this rule is designed to keep someone from being crushed if they are leaning over this short gate as the car leaves the floor.

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I do not know where this is...
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That's quite a "hoistway enclosure" in Flowood, Mississippi, U.S.A.
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In an old factory now used for other functions...
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See...
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I do not know where this is...but the gate needs a little work!
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A salt mine in Krakow, Poland
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More lady than gate but...
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More gate...less lady!
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Two ladies one gate...
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One lady and one gate that's trying to get away...
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I wonder if one of the relating cables is broken...
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Case Goods Warehouse in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The car gate looks intact - New York, New York, U.S.A.
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Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.
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Nice colors...
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I wonder if that round object on the gate is a balance weight?
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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