BS 2655-4:1969
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Specification for lifts, escalators, passenger conveyors and paternosters General requirements for escalators and passenger conveyors
Hardcopy , PDF
10-31-1983
English
07-31-1969
Co-operating organizations
Foreword
Specification
1 General
1.1 Scope
2 Escalators
2.1 Design requirements
2.2 Steps
2.3 Landing plates
2.4 Combplates
2.5 Balustrading
2.6 Guards at ceiling intersection
2.7 Handrails
2.8 Driving machinery
2.9 Safety factors
2.10 Operating and safety devices
2.11 Machinery spaces
2.12 Main switches and wiring
2.13 Controllers
2.14 Lighting
2.15 Marking
3 Passenger conveyors
3.1 Design requirements
3.2 Treadway for pallet type passenger conveyors
3.3 Treadway for belt type passenger conveyors
3.4 Landing plates
3.5 Balustrading
3.6 Guards at ceiling intersection
3.7 Handrails
3.8 Driving machinery
3.9 Safety factors
3.10 Operating and safety devices
3.11 Machinery spaces
3.12 Main switches and wiring
3.13 Controllers
3.14 Lighting
3.15 Marking
Appendix
A Safe use of escalators and passenger conveyors
Table
1 Treadway speed/slope
Figures
1 Dimensions of balustrades and handrails
2 Comb teeth and belt or tread grooves
3 Examples of suitable forms of notice for
escalator and passenger conveyor approaches
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