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FACTORIES AND MACHINERY (ELECTRIC PASSENGER AND GOODS LIFT)
REGULATIONS, 1970.
PART II - DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND TESTS.

Regulation 24. Buffers.

(1) Buffers shall be installed under every car and counterweight and shall be located
symmetrically with reference to the vertical centre line of the car frame or the counterweight frame
within a tolerance of two inches, and shall be so arranged that the car or counterweight in normal
operation does not engage them.

(2) Where the contract speed of the car is greater than seventy-five feet per minute solid buffers
shall not be installed.

(3) Where the contract speed of the car is greater than two hundred feet per minute spring buffers
shall not be installed.

(4) Spring buffers shall be capable of stopping a lift car with contract load from contract speed
without permanent deformation.

(5) The stroke of any spring buffer shall not be less than -

(a) one and one half inches at a contract speed of one hundred feet per minutes or less;
or

(b) two and one half inches at a contract speed in excess of one hundred feet per minute
but not more than one hundred and fifty feet per minute; or

(c) four inches at a contract speed in excess of one hundred and fifty feet per minute but
not more than two hundred feet per minute.

(6) The minimum stroke of an oil buffer shall be such that the lift car or the counterweight on
striking the buffer at one hundred and fifteen per cent of contract speed shall be brought to rest
with an average retardation of not more than thirty-two point two feet per second per second.

(7) Every oil buffer shall be -

(a) provided with a means of readily ascertaining the adequacy of the oil supply;

(b) self re-setting; and

(c) marked by the maker with the stroke, range of speed and load for which it has been
designed.

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