Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 8, § 3018 - Horizontal Car and Counterweight Clearances
(a) Between Car and Hoistway Enclosure.
The clearance between the car and the hoistway enclosure, or any
projection in the hoistway, shall not be less than 1 in. (25mm) except on the
sides used for loading and unloading.
(b) Between Car and Counterweight and
Counterweight Screen. The clearance between the car and the
counterweight shall be not less than 1 in. (25mm). The clearance
between the counterweight and the counterweight screen and between the
counterweight and the hoistway enclosure, or any projection in the hoistway,
shall be not less than ¾ in. (19mm).
(c) Between Cars in Multiple Hoistways.
The running clearance between the cars and any equipment
attached thereto, of elevators operating in a multiple hoistway, shall
be not less than 2 in. (51mm). This clearance must be increased when
guards between adjacent pits are required.
(d) Between Cars and Landing Sills.
The clearance between the car platform sill and the hoistway edge of
any landing sill, or the hoistway side of any vertically sliding
counterweighted hoistway door or of any vertically sliding counterbalanced
biparting hoistway door, shall be not less than ½ in. (13mm) where side
steel guides are used, and not less than ¾ in. (19mm) where
corner steel guides are used. The maximum clearance shall be not more
than
11/2 in.
(38mm). Where wood guides are used, the clearance shall be not less than
¾ in. (19mm).
(e)
Between Landing Side of Car Platforms and Hoistway Enclosures. The
clearance between the edge of the car platform sill and the hoistway enclosure
or fascia plate for the full width of the clear car entrance opening shall be
not more than 5 in. (127mm).
EXCEPTIONS to subsection 3018(e):
1. The clearance may be increased to not more
than
71/2 in.
(190mm) for vertically sliding hoistway doors of the pass type or of the heavy
duty type requiring special sills for extra wide openings.
2. Existing elevators whose hoistways are
equipped with vertically sliding hoistway gates in which a clearance of not
more than 6 in. (152mm) is permitted for that distance necessary for operation
of the gates plus 24 in. (610mm).
3. Existing elevators which can be started
only from the car in which a clearance of not more than 6 in. (152mm) is
permitted.
4. Existing elevators
which have been equipped with interlocked or contact locked car gates or
interlocked car doors at the entrance where the clearance exceeds 5 in. (127mm)
provided the lock is inaccessible from inside the car. Interlocks arranged to
comply with Section
3021(d)(1)(D) are
acceptable.
(f) Elevators
Without Car Doors or Gates.
(1)
Where
an elevator is exempted under these regulations from installation of a car door
or gate, the sides of hoistways opposite car entrances shall be smooth and free
from protruding objects or recesses within 4 in. (102mm) of the car platform,
unless such protruding objects or tops of recesses be smoothly and solidly
beveled at an angle of not less than 60° degrees from the
horizontal.
EXCEPTION to subsection 3018(f)(1):
Projections or recesses which are less than 1 in. (25mm).
(2) New
installations or replacements of the beveled surfaces required by Section
3018(f)(1) shall
be one of the following:
(A) Metal plates not
less than No. 10 M.S. gage 0.138 in. (3.5mm).
(B) Metal sheets not less than No. 16 M.S.
gage 0.061 in. (1.5mm) backed with wood or concrete.
(C) Smooth beveled
concrete.
Notes
2. Editorial correction of subsection (d) (Register 95, No. 26).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
2. Editorial correction of subsection (d) (Register 95, No. 26).
Group II regulations apply to existing elevators installed prior to October 25, 1998. Italicized paragraphs, sentences, or phrases apply to all existing elevators while non-italicized apply to elevators installed after 1970 or after the date the regulation was adopted.
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