Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators - ASME

1 AN AMERICAN national STANDARDASME B44-13(Revision of ASME B44-10) Safety C ode for Elevators and EscalatorsIncludes R equirements for Elevat or s,Escalat or s, Dumbwaiter s, Moving Walk s,Mat erial Lifts, and Dumbwaiters WithAutomatic Transfer Devices ASME B44-13(Revision of ASME B44-10) Safety code forElevators andEscalatorsIncludes Requirements for Elevators , Escalators , Dumbwaiters, Moving Walks,Material Lifts, and Dumbwaiters WithAutomatic Transfer DevicesAN AMERICAN national STANDARDDate of Issuance: October 21, 2013 The next edition of this code is scheduled for publication in 2016. This code will become effective6 months after the Date of issues written replies to inquiries concerning interpretations of technical aspects of this are published on the ASME Web site under the Committee Pages as they are issued.

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5 NY 10016-5990 Copyright 2013 byTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERSAll rights reservedPrinted in Committee xixASME xxiCSA of xxvPart and 2 Part 2 Electric of Hoistways and Hoistway and Guarding of Clearances and Runbys for Cars and Car and Counterweight of Space Below Spaces, Machine Rooms, Control Spaces, and in Hoistways, Machinery Spaces, Machine Rooms,Control Spaces, and Control and Sheave Beams, Supports, and of Equipment and Standard of Hoistway Door Locking Devices and Electric Contacts, and HoistwayAccess Operation of Hoistway Doors and Car Enclosures, Car Doors and Gates, and Car Frames and and and Counterweight Car Overspeed and Unintended Car MovementProtection.

6 Means and Their and and Counterweight Guide Rails, Guide-Rail Supports, Machines and Stopping Devices and Control Operation and Signaling Control 140 Part 3 Hydraulic of Hoistways and Hoistway and Guarding of and Top Clearances and Runbys for Cars Car and Counterweight of Spaces Below Spaces, Machine Rooms, Control Spaces, and Equipment, Wiring, Pipes, and Ducts in Hoistway,Machinery Spaces, Machine Rooms, Control Spaces, and and Sheave Beams, Supports, and of Exposed Auxiliary of Hoistway Landing Door Locking Devices, Electric Contacts, and Hoistway Operation, Power Opening, and Power Closing of HoistwayDoors and Car Doors or Enclosures, Car Doors and Gates, and Car Frames and and Safeties, Counterweight Safeties, Plunger Gripper, , Pressure Piping, and and Rope and Rails, Guide-Rail Supports.

7 And Machines and Stopping Devices and Control Operation and Signaling 158 Part 4 Elevators With Other Types of Driving 165 Part 5 Special Application Residence Residence Inclined Sidewalk Purpose Personnel Used for Turbine Tower Emergency 229 Part 6 Escalators and Moving 243ivPart 7 Dumbwaiters and Material and Hand Dumbwaiters Without Automatic Transfer and Hand Dumbwaiters Without Automatic Dumbwaiters Without Automatic Transfer Lifts Without Automatic Transfer Material Lifts Without Automatic Transfer Material Lifts Without Automatic Transfer Transfer Dumbwaiters With Automatic Transfer Material Lifts With Automatic Transfer Material Lifts With Automatic Transfer Lifts With Obscured Transfer 279 Part 8 General Data and Tests, Type Tests, and Seismic and Moving Walk Safety Requirement for Seismic RiskZone2orGreater.

8 , Repair, Replacement, and Data Inspections and Inspections and Witnessing of 399 Part 9 Reference Codes, standards , and Net Platform Areas for Passenger Rope Rope Guide Weight of a Car With Rated Load or of Counterweight WithSafety Device for a Pair of Guide Rails as Specifiedin Moment of Inertia Aboutx-xAxis for a Single Guide RailWith Its (h) Visual I Emergency Recall Operation II Emergency In-Car Corridor Call Station and Horizontal Components of Rated Load for Passenger Moment Based on Class of Stopping Governor Tripping Distances for Type B Car and Counterweight Factors of Safety of Suspension Members of PowerPassenger and Freight Gross of kg/m (8 lb/ft) Guide-Rail Bracket kg/m (11 lb/ft) Guide-Rail Bracket kg/m (12 lb/ft) Guide-Rail Bracket kg/m (15 lb/ft) Guide-Rail Bracket kg/m ( lb/ft) Guide-Rail Bracket kg/m ( lb/ft)

9 Guide-Rail Bracket kg/m (30 lb/ft) Guide-Rail Bracket and Counterweight Load elevator Equipment Requirements Emergency Operation Diagrammatic (e).. Bottom Runby for Counterweight Elevators With SpringBuffers or Solid Bumpers and Rheostatic Control or Single-SpeedACControl .. Allowable Stresses in Car Frame and Platform Membersand Connections, for Steels Specified in and Inside Net Platform Areas for the Various Rated and Minimum Stopping Distances for Type B Car SafetiesWith Rated Load and Type B Counterweight Car Speeds at Which Speed Governor Trips and GovernorOverspeed Switch for Determining Governor Sheave Pitch Factors of Safety for Suspension of Rope Diameter to Diameter of the Small Socket Spring Buffer Oil Buffer Guide-Rail Multiplying Factor for Duplex Rails for Counterweight Without Tie Thickness of Fishplates and Minimum Diameter ofFastening Size of Rail-Fastening for

10 Electrical Protective Devices and Other Electrical and Minimum Stopping Distances for Rack-and-PinionSafeties With Rated and Maximum Stopping Distances at Given Angles Buffer Oil Buffer Strokes at Given Angle From of Safety for Wire Rope and Spring Buffer Oil Buffer B Material Spring Buffer Oil Buffer and Deflections of Guide-Rail Brackets and Support Allowable Test 345 Nonmandatory AppendicesAControl 411 BUnlocking 413 CLocation of Top Emergency 414 DRated Load and Capacity Plates for Passenger 415 EElevator Requirements for Persons With Physical Disabilities inJurisdictions Enforcing 416 FAscending Car Overspeed and Unintended Car MovementProtection.