Posted on 08/04/2015 10:15:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
For people living in a house with more than one storey, stairlifts or home elevators are often a necessity of life as they get older and find it harder to get up and down the stairs. Normal stairlifts have the disadvantage of being a permanent and visible addition to a staircase, while traditional home elevators are bulky and often impractical for most homes.
A company in England is hoping their novel design will fill the gap in the market for a new kind of home elevator. Terry Lifts, based in Cheshire, have built a futuristic-looking elevator that can fit into the corner of a room and ascends through a hole in the ceiling with no lift shaft required.
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The Lifestyle Lift has a battery backup that will steadily return the user to the ground floor if there is a power cut. It also has an EU standard 30-minute fire protection feature between the floors, whether the elevator is parked upstairs or downstairs.
Its pressure sensitive bottom panel and safety edges gently stop the lift if an obstruction is detected either above or below.
"If a pet or child was playing underneath the lift, you've got a safety bottom with micro-switches all over that safety bottom. So as soon as it comes in contact with any obstruction, it will immediately stop...."
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"A lot of people that have come round to various exhibitions that we've been at in the UK, quite often they would say it looks more like a shower cubicle. That is the first reaction. The second reaction is the pod's design does look like the, you know, "Beam me up, Scotty" - Star Trek - you know you go in, there's two people at a time maximum, usually one, and then off it disappears," McSweeney said.
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video report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB9166O0BEw
Don't order the one from the Eminiar Company.
“Lady In A Cage”
with an early appearance by James Caan, who gets half his head run over by a car.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058283/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Quick, make one for dogs/cats and sales will octuple.
Will it make that “pssshhhh” sounds like the doors in the series/movies? Because thats what I really want to hear.
Very dangerous, that’s what killed Dr. Pulaski
We already have closet elevators in homes. The wife and I were looking at a place with one once, I said if we lived there I’d put a beer fridge in the elevator.
Manufacturer’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUDuPmVUvig
Alpha Beta Base has those.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG-0V-85H_0
I used to work in a factory that covered 6 stories and was up and down the manlift all the time.
We weren’t allowed to ride the freight elevators so we would park the forklift in it, take the manlift to where we were going then bring the elevator to us.
I saw one of these in a British show called Benefits about people scamming the welfare system. It was not used by old people but super morbidly obese.
LOL!
I want one!
I’ve told my mom I want to put muzak on her chair lift because it’s so slow. LOL!
"Beam me to the beer fridge, Scotty."
I thought it was only Americans that succeeded at beating anorexia?
I wonder how much they cost.
Gee, they make a residential elevator sound like something new. Yawn.
Install a dumbwaiter that is large enough to crawl into. :-)
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