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I really want these to be a thing again. So many buildings have a pair of elevators that simply can't handle the various rushes during the day. Leave one tradit
by avidiax 3y ago
I really want these to be a thing again. So many buildings have a pair of elevators that simply can't handle the various rushes during the day. Leave one traditional elevator for the edge cases, and replace the other with 2 or 4 paternoster cars.
- Someone 3y ago> and replace the other with 2 or 4 paternoster cars. Why 2 or 4? The whole idea of a paternoster is that there always is a car at every floor (see the animation and videos at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift) If there wasn’t, they would be really dangerous, as you could step into the elevator shaft while the nearest car was ten floors down.
- avidiax 3y agoWhat I mean is that the paternoster is usually smaller than an elevator. So in the vertical footprint of a typical elevator, I think you could fit 1 or 2 paternosters (2 to 4 cars, since each paternoster has 1 car in each direction looking vertically).