China Home Elevator manufacturers come to share explanations of common terms with elevators:

1. Elevator: It is a fixed lifting and transportation equipment used in high-rise buildings. It has a passenger car and runs between floors with vertical or inclined angles less than 15 °.
2. Car: It is a car-like part that directly carries passengers. It is generally a closed box after the door is closed.
3. Car door: The door of the car, the door that the passenger sees from the car and opens and closes automatically. It runs up and down with the car.
4. Floor door (or hall door): the door set at the entrance of each floor elevator, it does not run up and down with the elevator, but opens or closes with the car door.
5. Call box (or call box): It is set beside the entrance door of the elevator on each floor. There are generally two buttons with arrows on the upper and lower sides for passengers to call the car to come to this floor station.
6. Control panel in the car: installed on the inner wall of the car, there are digital buttons representing each floor, as well as door opening and closing buttons and emergency call buttons, which are mainly used for passengers to choose the destination floor after entering the elevator.
7. Escalator: a step with cyclic operation, a transportation device for continuously transporting passengers at an angle upward or downward. Intuitively it looks like a moving staircase, accompanied by moving handrails.
8. Moving sidewalk: Circulating walkways, like flat escalators, are generally used for the transportation of passengers and items carried by passengers with a horizontal or inclined angle of not more than 12 °.

The above content is organized and shared by China Elevator Lifts Factory,Freight Elevators Manufacturers , hoping to help those in need.