A escalator , also called escalator , mobile staircase or Escalator (mark), is an conveyer-elevator adapted to the Transport of Nobody S, consistent in a Escalier whose mobile steps are involved mechanically while remaining permanently in a horizontal plane.

This apparatus is often provided with a mobile slope advancing at the same speed as the steps.

Mechanism

August 1st The mechanism, near to that of a Travelator, consists of articulated steps , generally metal, and which move more or less quickly upwards or downwards. In order to facilitate the entry and the exit of the users, the ends are aligned with the ground, which gives him a form in S stretched a little.

Uses

August 1st In France, the escalators were installed massively as from the years 1970. Like example, the Parisian Métro quickly equipped the majority with the stations of an access per escalator. Many escalators also raise the center Beaubourg, which make it possible to reach summon building, from where one enjoys a panoramic sight on any Paris.

History

The concept was Brevet E for the first time by its inventor, the American Jesse W. Reno, the March 15th 1892.

A plane rolling tilted (Reno inclined Grain elevator) was used as of 1898 in the store Harrods with London.

Mark “Escalator”

The term “Escalator” being the name of a Registered trademark by Otis, should in any rigor take a capital letter, but it now passed in the current language, especially in the Anglo-Saxon countries.

Records

The longest escalator is an external staircase in four parts, located in the amusement park Ocean Park , with HongKong. It measures 227 meters, for uneven of 115 meters. Contrary, shortest measures 83,4 centimetres and is located in the shopping mall Okadaya More, with Kawasaki, the Japan.

See too

• Travolator

Related article

• Elevator
• Staircase
• Travelator

External bonds does

• Musée of the escalator
• Comment function the escalators?
• CNIM: Manufacturer of escalators

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