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Record 1 1987-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Elevators
  • Construction Site Equipment
DEF

... a mechanism for use in connection with the construction, alteration, maintenance, or demolition of a building, structure or other work: (a) For hoisting and lowering persons or materials or both; and (b) Equipped with a car that moves in guides during its vertical movement; and includes its hoistway and hoistway enclosure.

OBS

Personnel hoist: term and definition found in standard No. CSA-Z185E of the Canadian Standards Association, 1973, page 13.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ascenseurs et monte-charge
  • Matériel de chantier
OBS

Terme français tiré de "Génie-Construction", no 4, 1974, p. 68. Renseignement obtenu de Nova, Inc., Hull, en 1975.

Spanish

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