Elevator door sill guide

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This is a guide to elevator door sills. This can be used to identify elevator brands, or figure out the age of an elevator^[1]. This list will only list any elevator companies that make elevator door components. For any elevator door components which generic elevator companies used, please refer to the generic elevator component door sill guide.

A&P. Steven

Scissor gate door sills

1930s?

Applegate

To be added.

Armor

1950s

DomusLift

2000s to present

Dong Yang

Note that from the 1970's to 1990's, Dong Yang made elevators under license from Toshiba and thus the door sills type that were used by the company are from Toshiba. They continued using the same type even after both companies ended their partnership.

Automatic solid door sills

1980's to 2003

Dover

1960s to 1990s

Elevadores Atlas

Scissor gate door sills

1940s

Elevators Pty. Ltd. (EPL)

EPL used door sills that are very similar to Express Lift's door sills minus the nameplates. Nameplates are sometimes featured on EPL elevators, but not consistently.

Automatic solid door sills

Unknown year to 1990s

Express Lift

Automatic solid door sills

1980s-2000

GoldStar

Automatic solid door sills

1970s-1994

Haughton

Automatic solid door sills

?-Around 1967

Around 1967-1978

Hitachi

1970s-1990s

Hyundai

Automatic solid door sills

1980s

1990s

2000s-Present

Indolift

Automatic solid door sills

1980s to 1990s

Johns Perry

Automatic solid door sills

1974-1986

Johns & Waygood

Automatic solid door sills

1950s?-1974

Kleemann

2000s to present

Kone

For the Kone section, this will applied only the countries other than America unless otherwise stated.

Manual door sills

1960s-1970s

Automatic solid door sills

1980s-1990s

1998-present (outside America)

Kone's door component department were taken over by Wittur Group since 2000^[4]. Their AMD door operator (include AMD-1 and AMD-2^[5]) were made by Wittur Group^[6]^[7].

2000-present (in America)

Kone provide 3 types of door operators: G2M (GAL door operators replacement), AMD (supplied by Wittur Group) and MAC.

LG

Automatic solid door sills

1995 to 1999

Maspero

2000s-present

Mitsubishi

Automatic solid door sills

1960s?

1970s-Mid 1990s

Late 1990s-Present

Montgomery

1940s?

Otis

This also includes Waygood Otis door sills.

No inner doors door sills

Late 1910s

Scissor gate door sills

Late 1890s?-Early 1900s?

Mid 1900s?-Late 1900s?

Early 1910s?-Around 1913?

Around 1913-Late 1910s?

Early 1920s?-Around 1926

Around 1927-Around 1928

Around 1929-Early 1930s

Mid 1930s-1940s

Barred gate door sills

Around 1914?-Early 1930s?

Automatic solid door sills

Around 1925-Around 1975

Around 1975-Late 1970s

1980s-Present

Pacific

Scissor gate door sills

1900s?-1920s?

Schindler

Automatic solid door sills

1960s-1970s

In this period, Schindler were using their QKS6, QKS7 and QKS8 door operator. The door sills design are same as later Schindler elevators with QKS9 door operator.

1980s-1990s

In the 1980s-1990s, Schindler were mostly using their QKS9 door operator for center opening doors, therefore the doors are looking quite similar. This not applied in America.

2000s-Present

Beginning in the 2000s, Schindler choose Sematic Group (for 2400, 2500, 2600, optional feature of the 3300, 5400, 5500 and is a standard feature of the 7000) as their door component supplier. They also use door components provided by Wittur Group (usually for 300 P and both 5400 AP and 7000 installed under the project from Hong Kong Housing Authority in Hong Kong) and Fermator (for 3100, 3300, 6200 and 6300 elevators) for some installations. Their QKS9 door component is still used but is now quite rare for new installations^[9], while the Schindler 400A elevators in North America are using QKS16 VF door operator.

Schindler 3100, 3300, 6200 and 6300 elevators use Fermator door equipment with direct drive, regardless of region. The size of both the shaft and cab side of the door sill/track is slim. Sematic door equipment can also be used on some 3300 AP elevators as an option, usually for glass doors^[10].

For Schindler 5500, it uses door components made by Sematic Group. The doors makes a very unique "futuristic" movement sound when opening and closing, this is because Sematic doors use geared drive. For the sill size, the shaft side sill is always bigger than the cab side sill.

For Schindler 7000, it uses door components made by Sematic Group. The doors makes a very unique "futuristic" movement sound when opening and closing (but different than 5500^[11]), this is because Sematic doors use geared drive. For the sill size, the shaft side sill is always bigger than the cab side sill.