Sentence examples for elevator cage from inspiring English sources

Next to a wall is what is believed to be the last surviving elevator cage, with its dusty grill.

He, Charlie, was a prisoner, confined eight hours a day to a six-by-eight elevator cage, which was confined, in turn, to a sixteen-story shaft.

An operator-run elevator cage delivered me to the seventh floor, and then Burke and I climbed a tight spiral staircase to a window-walled office reminiscent of a crow's nest, with views of the Hudson and New Jersey, where Burke grew up.

The only items of interior decoration that survive from that initial restoration are the boxes of the Diamond Horseshoe & the elevator cages in the 40th St. lobby.

The lobby was furnished with Navajo rugs; tiles of tan, green, black and blood red; and zigzag designs on the lamps and elevator cages reminiscent of American Indian designs.

A promising solution is to use long armature linear motors spanning the hoistway to directly drive elevator cages.

In the entry, for example, after ripping out a staircase they deemed depressing, the designers replaced it with spiral stairs that wind around a new, cylindrical elevator, its cage covered with filigreed ironwork that evokes the Art Nouveau era.

Rosen stepped into a copperplated cage elevator, fitfully operated by Joe, and rode it to four.

Then, at a loss over how the evening was going, he made for the front door and the antique cage elevator, which he rode to the lobby with a couple who were leaving the party — but what was he doing?

The neo-Classical exterior has been declared a landmark, as has part of the interior, with its grand, skylighted five-story rotunda, granite columns, ornate cage elevator and high-ceilinged, spacious rooms.

We followed it, taking in the Jules Olitski painting "Green Dot" and the handful of inviting chairs in front of the fireplace before the cage elevator sped us to the eighth floor.