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Question 1

VARIOUS CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS ARE POSSIBLE BY USE OF WATER FLOW
SWITCHES THAT ARE PLACED IN SPRINKLER PIPELINES AND OPERATE WHEN
SPRINKLER HEAD GOES OFF

Answer 1

Sprinkler Alarms

Question 2

DEVICES RESPOND TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE.

Answer 2

Temperature Detectors

Question 3

DETECTORS REACT TO OBSCURATION OF A LIGHT BEAM BY SMOKE.

Answer 3

Photo Electric Detectors

Question 4

OPERATED BY DETECTING IONIZED PARTICLES IN AIR

Answer 4

Ionization Detectors

Question 5

TYPES OF FLAME DETECTORS

Answer 5

INFRARED and ULTRAVIOLET

Question 6

TYPES OF FLAME DETECTORS THAT REACTS TO IRRADIATION

Answer 6

INFRARED

Question 7

TYPES OF FLAME DETECTORS THAT REACTS TO ULTRAVIOLET RADIATED FROM ACTIVE FLAME.

Answer 7

ULTRAVIOLET

Question 8

THIS SYSTEM ALSO CALLED COMMON CODED AND FIXED CODED

Answer 8

Master Coded System

Question 9

IN A SYSTEM WHERE IT IS DESIRED TO IDENTIFY A ZONE, ONE CAN DO SO BY
UTILIZING A NON CODED SYSTEM WITH ZONE LIGHTS, AN ANNUNCIATOR OR A CODED
SYSTEM.

Answer 9

Zone Coded

Question 10

SEVERAL LEVELS OF SECURITY ARE AVAILABLE AND CAN BE APPLIED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE SECURITY NEEDS.

Answer 10

Personal Entry Control

Question 11

FLASHING LIGHTS WHICH MAY BE COMBINED WITH BUZZERS OR BELLS WHICH ARE
CODED.

Answer 11

Visual

Question 12

Elevator system includes:

Answer 12

1. [Hoist Way
2. [Machine Room
3. [Elevator Car
4. [Waiting Lobbies

Question 13

Is a vertical shaft for the travel of one or

more elevators.

Answer 13

Hoistway

Question 14

Usually located above the hoistway but could also be situated below, to the side or to the rear of
it.

Answer 14

Machine Room

Question 15

Guided by vertical rails on each side, it conveys passenger or freight between floors.

Answer 15

Elevator Car

Question 16

Elevator waiting areas are designed to allow free circulation of passengers, rapid access to
elevator cars, and clearly visible elevator signals.

Answer 16

Lobbies

Question 17

Four Classifications of Passenger Elevators

Answer 17

1. [General Purpose or [Commercial
2. [Residential
3. [Institutional
4. [store

Question 18

Is a cage of some fire-resistant material supported on a structural frame, to the top member of
which the cables are fastened.

Answer 18

Cars

Question 19

Fastened to the top of the car pass over the sheave at the traction machine & then downward to
the counterweight.

Answer 19

cables

Question 20

Turns the sheave & lifts or lowers the car.

Answer 20

Elevator Machine

Question 21

Is the combination of push buttons, contacts, electronic equipment, relays, solid-state switching,
cans, and devices that are operated manually or automatically to initiate the door operation,
starting, acceleration, retardation, levelling & stopping of the car.

Answer 21

Control Equipment

Question 22

Are rectangular blocks of cast-iron or cut steel plates stacked in a frame that is supported at the
opposite ends of the cables to which the car is fastened.

Answer 22

counterweights

Question 23

Is the vertical passageway to the car & counterweights.

Answer 23

Shaft

Question 24

Are available with pre-engineered units with speeds of 500 to 1200 ft/min. They offer the
advantages of:

Answer 24

Gearless Traction Machine

Question 25

Are designed to operate within the range of 100 to 450 ft/min, restricting their use to mediumrise building.

Answer 25

Geared Traction Machine

Question 26

Safety is designed to stop an elevator car automatically before the car speed becomes excessive. The action of one such device is controlled by the _______.

Answer 26

Governor

Question 27

Their purpose is not to stop a falling car but to bring it to a partially cushioned stop if it would over travel the lower terminal.

Answer 27

Buffers

Question 28

Are located a few feet below and above the safe limits of the elevator car.

Answer 28

Final Limit Switches

Question 29

CRITERIA FOR ELEVATOR SELECTION

Answer 29

1. [INTERVAL 2. [HANDLING CAPACITY 3. [TRAVEL TIME

Question 30

The elevator solution involves transporting large groups of people from the street lobby to an upper lobby called a sky plaza. At this time the passengers transfer to another elevator to continue their upward journey.

Answer 30

Sky-Plaza Systems

Question 31

an old technique, recently revise to answer the needs of tall buildings . the double deck car increases shaft capacity, decreases the number of local stop and increases the rental area available.

Answer 31

Double-deck elevators

Question 32

In contradiction to the traction type, this hydraulic or plunger elevator Is raised and lowered quite simply, by means of a movable rod rigidly fixed to the bottom of the elevator car.

Answer 32

Hydraulic Elevators

Question 33

It is a conveyor transport device for transporting people, consisting of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, which keep the treads horizontal.

Answer 33

Escalators

Question 34

It is used to do just what its name implies: to elevate, or lift, freight, or goods. It is built to carry goods rather than people, though some do both to allow operators and those loading goods along for the ride.

Answer 34

Freight Elevators

Question 35

There is a fresh air intake housed on the roof contains a blower to drive air downward through escalator floor openings, while the exhaust fan on the roof creates a strong draft upward through an exhaust duct, this ducts in turn draws air from the separate ducts just under the ceiling of each moving stairway floor opening.

Answer 35

Sprinkler Vent

Question 36

Four methods of affording protection in case of fire near escalators are available:

Answer 36

1. [rolling shutter 2. [smoke guard 3. [sprinkler vent

Question 37

It is one with an incline not exceeding 5 degrees, where the | the principal function is horizontal motion.

Answer 37

Moving Walk

Question 38

It is a device with an incline limited to 15 degrees, where vertical motion is as important or more important than the horizontal component

Answer 38

Moving Ramp

Question 39

It is a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building

Answer 39

Elevator or Lift

Question 40

It can operate without the use of cables or hydraulics.

Answer 40

Pneumatic Vacuum Elevators

Question 41

An elevator cab is typically borne by six or eight hoist cables, each of which is capable on its own of supporting the full load of the elevator plus twenty-five per cent more weight

Answer 41

Cable-borne elevators

Question 42

It uses the principles of hydraulics (in the sense of hydraulic power) to pressurize an above ground or in-ground piston to raise and lower the car.

Answer 42

Hydraulic Elevator

Question 43

Elevators and lifts used in mines, The method involves destructive testing of a segment of the cable.

Answer 43

Mine-shaft elevators

Question 44

All elevators, whether traction or hydraulic, require a machine room to store large electric motors (or hydraulic pumps) and a controller cabinet. This room is located above the hoistway (or below, for hydraulic elevators) and may contain machinery for a single or a group of elevators.

Answer 44

Machine Room

Question 45

USES OF ELEVATORS:

Answer 45

1. [PASSENGER SERVICE 2. [FREIGHT ELEVATOR 3. [VEHICULAR ELEVATOR 4. [BOAT ELEVATORS 5. [AIRCRAFT ELEVATORS 6. [RESIDENTIAL ELEVATORS 7. [DUMBWAITERS 8. [PATERNOSTER 9. [LIMITED USE/LIMITED APPLICATION 10. [MATERIAL HANDLING BELTS AND BELT ELEVATORS

Question 46

TYPES OF ESCALATORS

Answer 46

1. [Cleat-Type Escalator 2. [Step-Type Escalator 3. [Spiral Escalator

Question 47

Suitable for retrofits of buildings that are not barrier-free.

Answer 47

Wheelchair Lift

Question 48

allows 360 degree movement if designed with swivel casters, or it can travel along a fixed steel track mounted on the floor.

Answer 48

Movable Gantry

Question 49

Used for high-density storage and retrieval systems. Allows high lift capacity while operating in a narrow aisle. Can be used in numerous aisles, unlike dedicated stacker cranes.

Answer 49

Hybrid Vehicle

Question 50

Used to transport unitized loads when stacking of loads is not necessary. Ideal for clock work and production area.

Answer 50

Hand Pallet Truck

Question 51

Narrow aisle operations without limiting pallet sizes and rack openings.

Answer 51

Reach Truck