Categorized by use: passenger elevator: elevator designed to transport passengers. Applicable to airports, restaurants, hotels, office buildings, large shopping malls and other occasions of high traffic. This kind of elevator in order to improve the delivery efficiency, its running speed, high degree of automation, and complete safety facilities, beautiful decoration. Cargo elevator: designed for transporting goods and usually accompanied by people in the elevator. It is mainly used in workshops and warehouses above two floors. The decoration of this kind of elevator is not too elaborate, the degree of automation and running speed is generally low, while the load capacity and car size of the range of changes is relatively large.
Medical elevator: one of the supporting medical facilities for hospitals, modern medical centers, sanatoriums, health care centers, etc. It is used for transporting passengers, bed stretchers and rescuing medical equipments. The car is long and narrow.
Sundry elevator: for libraries, office buildings, hotels to send books, documents, food, etc., and does not allow people to enter the elevator. This elevator safety facilities are not complete, not allowed to transport passengers. In order not to make people enter the car, into the car doorway and the car area are designed to be very small, and the net height of the car is generally not greater than one point two meters.
Sightseeing elevator: mainly installed in hotels, shopping malls, high-rise office building occasions, there is a side or several sides of the shaft wall and the wall of the car on the same side of the transparent material, passengers in the elevator, you can watch the scenery outside the car.
Car elevator: it is a special elevator to solve the problem of vertical transportation of cars. As an important car vertical transportation tool, compared with the traditional car ramp, the car elevator can save eighty percent of the floor space and more than twice the car turnover efficiency.
Marine elevator: it is a lifting equipment which is fixedly installed on a ship for the use of passengers and crew or other personnel, and it can work normally in the rocking of the ship.
Building construction elevator: it is a man-carrying freight elevator often used in construction, often called a lift. Due to its unique box structure that makes it both comfortable and safe to ride, construction elevators are usually used with tower cranes at construction sites.
Special elevator: In addition to the above commonly used types of elevators, there are special environments, special conditions, special requirements and design of the elevator. Such as cold storage elevator, explosion-proof elevator, mine elevator, power station elevator, elevator for firefighters.