Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO
@deviantollam here's a photo of an elevator door with a quirk I've seen a lot in japan: the hall-side floor juts out slightly into the cab space. No idea why! There are loads of two-doored elevators there (both on opposite and adjacent sides); this shot is from a fairly normal two-door-on-opposite-sides cab.
May 11 at 10:03pmWeb
Show threadDeviant Ollam6d ago
@rcombs I would be very interested to see how that jutting portion of the floor slides past the doors as the cab goes by. I wonder if this has something to do with adding additional sway resistance in a zone of the world that has a lot of seismic activity?
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO6d ago
@deviantollam did some japanese-language googling and it looks like it's designed to reduce the platform gap width? I'm not clear on why that requires that shape, though
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO6d ago
@deviantollam also in the process of researching this, I found out that some japanese elevators also have a "trunk" meant to accommodate a stretcher; I *think* this is specific to machine-room-less models where part of the traction system might be mounted at the rear of the top of the shaft?
Show threadDeviant Ollam5d ago
@rcombs wow, that's really neat!