§ 14-16-96. Car doors or gates for power passenger elevators.

A.

Requirements when provided with electric contacts. Car doors or gates provided with car door or gate electric contacts shall protect each entrance of a power passenger elevator car, shall be arranged to guard the full width of the opening and shall extend from within two inches of, and up to a height of not less than six feet above the car platform flooring.

B.

Scissor or pantograph gate. Car gates of the scissors or pantograph type on automatic operation elevators shall not be opened under power for spice in excess of nine inches from the full closure position.

C.

Driving mechanism when operator not used. Power closed car doors or gates, in elevators employing a type of operation which does not require a operator in the car, shall be driven by a mechanism designed and set that the force necessary to prevent the closing of the door or gate shall not exceed 30 pounds and further, that the car door or gate, plus the hoistway door or gate, plus all parts rigid connected thereto shall not develop a kinetic energy in excess of seven foot pounds computed the average closing speed, or shall be provided with other suitable protecting measures.

D.

Relationship to hoistway doors. For automatic operation passenger elevators having power closed or automatically released self-closing car doors or gates, and manually closed or self-closing hoistway doors, the closing of the car door or gate shall be prevented unless the hoistway door is closed in a position to be locked.

E.

Maximum clearance from car gate to hoistway gate for automatic or CPPB. For automatic operation or continuous pressure operation, the minimum clearance space between the car doors or gates and the hoistway doors or gates shall not exceed 5½ inches. Where this distance is exceeded the hoistway doors or gates shall be altered to comply with section 14-16-79(C).

F.

New or replaced gates. Where existing car gates are replaced or new gates installed, the gates shall be constructed to reject a three-inch ball.

G.

Sliding doors. Sliding car doors may be solid, may be provided with open grille or bars which should be designed to reject a two-inch ball or may be provided with glass or open grille vision panels. Grilles, bars or vision panels may extend the full height of the car door panel. Clear wire or laminated glass shall be used for glass vision panel replacements.

(Code 1967, § 49-146; Code 1985, § 46-166)