Mining equipment manufacturers are always on the lookout for areas in which to diversify, and Connellsville Elevator Corp. of Pennsylvania seems to have found a market niche just waiting to be filled. The 86-year-old producer of mine escape elevators has a product that could ease the fears of all those apartment dwellers and hotel guests who dread the thought of a “towering inferno” — a high-rise escape lift. The company says it would have saved many of the 90 hotel guests who died in the DuPont Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve, 1986.
The escape elevator is described by company engineers as a “vertical ski lift” moved automatically into place alongside the balconies of a high-rise building. People can descend to safety on lifts which continually pass by the balconies of the building.
The Connellsville Escape Lift is being presented to architects and engineers of high-rise buildings as a safety feature that might be considered in their plans. HIGH GRADE
Talk about high grade. In its 1986 annual report, United Keno Hill Mines says 136 tons of ore assaying 397.0 oz silver per ton was hand-picked from its open pits and shipped directly to smelter during the year.
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