From: Ron Kean <ronkean@juno.com>
>Express elevators could be set up like a conveyor belt, with an
>'up' shaft next to a 'down' shaft. That would require sideways
>car transfer from shaft to shaft at the top and bottom. The
>shafts would be filled with as many cars as there are express
>stops.
There was a Scientific American article awhile back on "Future Elevators" or somesuch that featured a system with multiple cars per shaft,they also showed work in progress by Otis on a system that could travel both vertically and horizontally ala a startrek turboshaft.
Here in Chicago there is a building that has stacked elevator cars (one above the other) that serve even/odd floors simultaneously, the main floor is actually two levels......pretty neat solution.
Brian
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