open shaft

A vertical duct or small enclosed passage within a building, open to the outer air at the top, and used to ventilate interior spaces connected to it. Also see light well.

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The model features a teardrop shaped fuel tank, open shaft drive, cantilever suspension, 21-inch front and 18-inch rear wheel, with Metzeler Rille tyres.

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Higgins also served as project geologist on landslide stabilization projects, highway rock slope excavation, roadway embankment work, roadway and railroad bridge projects, and tunneling, open shaft excavation and dewatering projects.

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Mechatronic ropefree elevator system for vertical and horizontal transport with the possibility of movement of cabins in a closed or a partially open shaft, Patent Application nr P.415251, Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (in Polish).

Rope-free elevator system based on planar positioners for vertical and horizontal transport

Owners of apartment buildings spend an average of $3,400 per year to heat air that rises to the roof and escapes from open shaft vents, which were originally intended to promote fire safety by drawing smoke out of the building through the roof.

How NYC high-rises can battle heat loss

To predict the quantity of smoke entering a shaft, Marshall (1986) developed an empirical equation based on the experiments in a 1/5 scale model of a fire compartment with a corridor and a 5-storey open shaft. However, for simplification, these studies and many of others often assumed adiabatic shaft walls and neglected heat transfer between smoke and shaft boundaries.

A hand calculation method of smoke movement through a high-rise airtight single shaft

THE management company behind a Cardiff pub has been fined PS7,000 after a customer fell through an open shaft into the cellar.

Fine for pub firm over fall

To his horror, he realised that if the apparition had not diverted him he would have plunged down an open shaft to an almost certain death.

Headless women and horror hounds; New book reveals Huddersfield's spooky side

"He stepped into the narrow open shaft in the expectation that the lift would be present for him to walk into, as it should have been."

Sir Stirling Moss in hospital after horror fall

"He stepped into the narrow open shaft expecting the lift to be present for him to walk into."

AND THERE GOES STIRLING MOSS.. F1 legend injured in 30ft fall down lift shaft at home

The claims recite "a tower provided with means adjacent the lower end thereof for supporting it within a vertical open shaft of the structure being constructed." The claims further recite an "elevating means associated with the lower end of said tower for raising said tower within the shaft as construction progresses."

The overlooked patent: sometimes inventors miss potential, claims. Take the tower crane, for example. It meets the latest criteria

Police and labour authorities have begun investigating the incident, which construction company officials say might have taken place when Mr Kumar slipped into the open shaft.

Worker dies in site fall

The seven-year-old called Kershi was out for a walk with his owner when he tumbled down the open shaft on wasteland near Bowesfield Industrial Estate, Stockton.