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	Escalator
		Escalator provides assistance to raise capital of up to $5 million, and/or to negotiate strategic partnerships, licensing and joint ventures.
		Escalator is a service funded by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE). NZTE and the Escalator service providers do not invest directly in the businesses or entrepreneurs that use this service. They provide an opportunity for participants to develop the skills needed to access investment opportunities.
		Businesses that benefited from the Escalator service were at various stages of their growth cycle (seed to expansion) and represented all sectors – including ICT, food and beverage, creative and services, manufacturing and biotechnology.
	www.nzte.govt.nz /section/11734.aspx (559 words)

	Arts Council England : Project
		Escalator is establishing the East of England as the leading UK region for talent development.
		Escalator International is enabling us to forge strong international partnerships to raise ambitions, secure additional resources, increase the profile of our region and invigorate its creative sector.
		Escalator Futures is a new strand aimed specifically at young people who are chosen for their creativity and potential to succeed in the arts and creative industries.
	www.artscouncil.org.uk /regions/project_detail.php?rid=1&id=312&browse=recent (593 words)

	Step for a curved escalator - Patent 4775043
		A curved escalator as claimed in claim 1 wherein the radius of curvature of the surface of the riser plate increases in the outward direction in arithmetic progression with a common difference, defining a frustoconical surface.
		A curved escalator as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of said riser cleats extends along a center line in a plane perpendicular to a line passing through the center of curvature of the horizontal cleats and one end of the horizontal cleats.
		A curved escalator as claimed in claim 1 wherein said common differences are the same, providing cleats of the same pitch for both the tread plate and the riser plate, the vertical cleats being spaced one-half pitch from the horizontal cleats.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4775043.html (1631 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Central-Mid-Levels escalator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Central-Mid-levels escalator in Hong Kong is the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world.
		It consists of 20 escalators and 3 moving sidewalks.
		The escalator runs downhill from 0600 to 1000 and uphill from 1030 to 2400 every day.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Central-Mid-Levels_escalator (243 words)

	Escalator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He joined the Otis Elevator Company and they produced the first commercial escalator which won a first prize at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle in France.
		Old escalators with wooden steps are still in use in some places, however, such as the Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnel in Tyne and Wear, England.
		The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere is at the Wheaton station of the Washington Metro subway system.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Escalator.html (405 words)

	How an Escalator Works - How to use one an Safety Tips - AAA Encyclopedia
		The escalator was invented by Jesse W. Reno in 1891.
		An escalator, or moving stairway, carries passengers from one level to the next.
		The passenger then stands on that stair and is carried by the escalator to the next level.
	www.kenseamedia.com /encyclopedia/eee/how_escalator_works_1.htm (275 words)

	Escalator Summary
		Old escalators with wooden steps are still in use in some places, however, such as the Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnel in Tyne and Wear, England, the Macy's department store in New York City and the St. Anna Pedestrian Tunnel underneath the Schelde in Antwerp, Belgium.
		A few fatal accidents are known to have involved escalators and travelators: Sally Baldwin, a professor of the University of York, was crushed to death at Tiburtina Station in Rome on 28 October 2003 after a travelator collapsed and she was pulled into the cogwheels.
		Escalator was originally a combination of the word 'scala', which is Latin for steps, and the word 'elevator', which had already been invented.
	www.bookrags.com /Escalator (3766 words)

	Escalator@Everything2.com
		Escalator is a common name for a mechanical apparatus in the form of a moving stairway, the steps of which ascend or descend, carrying passengers from one floor to another of a building.
		The earliest type of escalator, patented in 1891 by Jesse W. Reno, was in the form of an inclined conveyor belt destined for industrial use.
		The etiquette of traveling on an escalator is a simple affair, yet many people, caught up in the self-absorption of their daily commute, fail to be mindful of others.
	www.everything2.com /?node=escalator (612 words)

	ESCALATOR Project and installation ESCALATOR- Halsten.com
		An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move up or down on tracks that keep the surfaces of the individual steps horizontal.
		Escalators are typically used in pairs with one going up and the other going down, however in some places, especially European stores and metro station, there are no escalators going down; the escalators only go up.
		For example, one spiral escalator constructed by Reno in conjunction with William Henry Aston and Scott Kietzman at London's Holloway Road Underground station in 1906 [1] was dismantled almost immediately and little of the mechanism survives.
	www.elevator-construction.com /elevators/escalator.asp (2107 words)

	Man is strangled after clothing snags in MBTA escalator - The Boston Globe
		In what officials called the worst escalator mishap in MBTA history, a 34-year-old man from El Salvador was strangled to death last week after the hood of his sweatshirt became entangled in the teeth at the bottom of the escalator at the Red Line's Porter Square Station.
		Investigators believe that around 9:45 p.m., Portillo was either sitting or lying down on the 143-foot-long escalator when his hood became snagged in the escalator's comb plate, dragging him to the floor and choking him until another commuter hit the emergency shut-off button.
		The old, single-file Aquarium station escalators, replaced in 2003 when a new station was built, were the scene of several, including a 1995 incident in which a 3-year-old Cambridge boy's leg was severely gashed.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/03/02/man_is_strangled_after_clothing_snags_in_mbta_escalator (728 words)

	Escalator handrail reentry guard - Patent 5064047
		The reentry port where an escalator handrail passes out of view at the exit newel of the escalator is provided with an elastomeric reentry guard in the form of a collar surrounding the handrail.
		Escalators and moving walkways are generally equipped with moving handrails mounted on balustrades which flank the treads of the escalator or walkway.
		The guard 2 is disposed in an opening 10 in an end wall 12 of the escalator skirt, i.e., the parts of the escalator which flank the steps and frame the entrance and exit of the escalator.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5064047.html (1900 words)

	The Junction 01223 511 511
		Escalator supports a broad range of artists at different stages in their careers, providing coaching, training and investment as well as joint promotion and networking opportunities.
		Escalator is run by a team of regional arts organisations, producers, artists and the Arts Council England, East.
		Escalator artists do not have to be working professionally at the time of their inclusion in the programme, nor necessarily be seeking to develop their careers along more traditional mainstream paths.
	www.junction.co.uk /HTMLTemplates/our_work/projects/digital/Escalator_-_supporting_artists_in_the_East_of_England.htm (506 words)

	Escalator Data
		The escalator step band continues moving, drawing the child's entrapped foot and footwear into the gap between the step and panel, as there is nowhere else for it to go.
		Generally, every person using an escalator, except those children of such an age that do not understand or appreciate the danger, is bound to exercise reasonable care of his/ her own safety (Hendershoot v.
		One accident is one too many, and those that claim that their escalators have been in service for years and have not been involved in an accident should remember that they are really only years closer to having an accident.
	www.elevator-expert.com /escalato.htm (4736 words)

	BWG — Escalator Etiquette
		Simple: should the escalator come to sudden halt — and they do now and again — anyone not holding the rail is going to pitch forward and do a face-plant on a metal step.
		If the escalator is full, those not testing step density with their faces will create a human domino chain.
		Some people must be suffering from congenital stupidity, because no other explanation makes sense for why they reach the beginning or end of the escalator (or moving sidewalk) and stop dead in their tracks.
	www.bigwhiteguy.com /dishes/escalator.php (589 words)

	Vertical Analysis - Escalator Analysis - Remote Monitoring - Consulting - Engineering
		Escalators include many safety devices, each designed to initiate an emergency stop when a hazardous condition occurs.
		This is particular dangerous on down-running escalators and may involve multiple victims due to a domino effect.
		Escalators today differ minimally from their sixty year old counterparts.
	www.verticalanalysis.com /resources/accidents.asp (1478 words)

	CNN.com - Elevator scrutiny up after high-profile mishaps - Aug. 14, 2003
		Blana Clubine remembers grabbing the handrails of the Coors Field escalator when it threw baseball fans into a heap amid a cloud of smoke and the smell of burning brakes.
		Escalator manufacturers and cities try to follow standards established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, but no national body or federal agency is responsible for enforcing it.
		There were some 8,400 escalator injuries that sent people to emergency rooms in 2001, the last year for which estimates were available, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
	cnn.com /2003/US/Central/08/14/escalator.inspections.ap (577 words)

	Southpinellas: History of Dillard's escalator to unfold
		The girl's attorneys say that Dillard's 30-year-old down escalator has been unsafe since as early as 1992, and that employees routinely refer to it as the "meat grinder" and the "crusher." It is the only down escalator used by the public, carrying customers from the women's department to the purses and perfume counters downstairs.
		Escalators, in use since 1900, are generally safe, experts say.
		He said there was nothing wrong with Dillard's employees servicing the escalator, and that the state, too, had performed periodic inspections and given the escalator a clean bill of health.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/11/Southpinellas/History_of_Dillard_s_.shtml (1005 words)

	LRB \| Peter Campbell : Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The open space at the top of the escalator - down under the area where commuters gather to step aboard - is dominated by major machinery: the housings of the electric motor (A) and the gear that controls it and connects it to the sprocket wheels and chains.
		Hundreds of passenger injuries and five deaths on escalators, including that of a woman who was strangled when her clothing got caught in a staircase, have created a public relations problem for Metro.
		Realising that an escalator is more like an airliner, but one for which it is impossible to call up a substitute when it is time for a planned overhaul, makes you more sympathetic.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v24/n05/camp01_.html (4494 words)

	Mike Holt's Code Forum: Escalator
		According to the article a problem with escalators is they are not counter balanced like an elevator is, so the drive line (gear box, chains, brakes and motor) hold all the weight of the riders.
		The escalator was taken out of service but the cause of the malfunction hadn't been determined.
		He said one of the two people at the top of the escalator was temporarily distracted by an incident in the crowd, but he had not talked to the employee.
	www.mikeholt.com /cgi-bin/codeforum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic;f=3;t=000189;go=newer (977 words)

	FUJITEC PRODUCTS ESCALATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fujitec's wheelchair accessible escalator was developed in response to the rising social needs for a barrier-free design for the physically challenged.
		A simple button operation enables wheelchair steps to be formed when the escalator is required by a wheelchair user.
		The escalator can be used by both general passengers and a wheelchair user at the same time.
	www.fujitec.co.jp /english/product/escalat/escalat02.htm (66 words)

	Rediff On The NeT:Airport mishap: Escalator did not have safety sensors
		Reports also point out that the screws of some metal sheets on the escalator's footboard were left unscrewed by maintenance staff because it made routine maintenance easier.
		The girl's uncle, Rajesh, for whose marriage she was travelling to Jodhpur with her grandfather, tried to pull the girl out and in the process received a deep gash on his head.
		The company maintained that the escalator had gone through the mandatory maintenance on November 25, but did not rule out the possibility of something having gone wrong after that.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/dec/15josy.htm (548 words)

	History and Design of the Escalator
		Most escalators nowadays require people to move on and off in the same direction as the steps are moving.
		UK, the first escalator installed on the London Underground required people to move on and off from the side of steps at each end of their journey.
		bank of four curved escalators, whereby the top of each escalator is approximately facing 180 degrees from the bottom of the same escalator - by necessity the undersides of these escalators are thicker as the step return mechanism needs to be more complex than on a straight escalator.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/escalator.htm (934 words)

	Halfbakery: Escalator Handrail Arrows
		In one of my local department stores, the food hall is in the basement with one escalator going dooown into the bowels of the building and another going up to take you back out.
		If the light is green, the escalator is going in your direction, and if it's red, then it's moving in the opposite direction.
		If you can only see the upper or lower end of an escalator due to surrounding walls, merchandise, etc. there is a wide range of angles from which one cannot see the steps.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Escalator_20Handrail_20Arrows (975 words)

	Escalator parts by escalator part manufacturer ECS Corporation
		Escalator parts by escalator part manufacturer ECS Corporation
		For almost 45 years, ECS has been manufacturing superior escalator products.
		Passenger Escalators- Did you know that they transport several million people every day.
	www.escalatorparts.com (134 words)

	Escalator Safety Tips - Associated Content
		Escalators are a popular and convenient means of conveyance in many public places around the world.
		While modern escalators have multiple, redundant safety features to help ensure the safety of riders, improper riding practices can and do result in injuries.
		Face forward (in the direction the escalator is traveling) and old the handrail at all times.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/80973/escalator_safety_tips.html (373 words)

	Escalator Accident Attorney - Escalator Accident News
		While escalator accidents are rare, when they happen they can be fatal and up to 85% of them may be preventable.
		The number of elevators exceeds escalators by a factor of 20, yet there are almost the same number of accidents for both machines.
		Kolata was sitting on the escalator handrail while going from the field level to the second level when he fell.
	www.weitzlux.com /escalatoraccidentsattorneysnews_805.html (1124 words)

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