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FREIGHT ELEVATOR OPERATOR [2 records]

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Record 1 2006-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Elevators
DEF

An elevator primarily used for carrying freight on which only the operator and the persons necessary for loading and unloading the freight are permitted to ride.

CONT

Sydney Opera House Staging staff will assist in unloading equipment to the goods lift. The goods lift takes equipment from Central Passage level to the Concert Hall ante room (backstage).

OBS

for "goods lift": elevator: British usage "lift" ...

OBS

for "goods lift": Lift. The type of lift or elevator here described is the guided car or platform for the vertical transport of passengers or goods ...

OBS

freight elevator: term standardized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ascenseurs et monte-charge
DEF

Engin élévateur de transport vertical de charges lourdes; son fonctionnement, et les dispositifs de sécurité correspondants, sont analogues à ceux des ascenseurs; sa cabine, robuste, est en général plus vaste pour accueillir des chariots.

OBS

Pluriel : des monte-charges.

OBS

monte-charges (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

OBS

monte-charge : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ascensores y montacargas
DEF

Ascensor destinado a elevar mercaderías y objetos muy pesados o voluminosos.

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Record 2 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Elevators
DEF

a device that will permit the operator... to move a freight elevator within the truck zone with the car door [and a hoistway door open. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ascenseurs et monte-charge
DEF

dispositif qui permet au conducteur dans la cabine de déplacer un monte-charge dans les limites de la zone de service alors que la porte de la cabine [...] une porte palière sont ouvertes.

Spanish

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