Elevator types

A hydraulic elevator uses a jack and power unit to move the cabin. It suits villas and 2–6 stop buildings that cannot put a machine room on the roof. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

An MRL elevator has no separate rooftop machine room. The drive usually sits in the hoistway on a support beam; the controller is often a cabinet at the top landing. It is common in Iran for mid-rise apartments and retrofits with a tight roof. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A gearless elevator uses a motor without a gearbox — usually a permanent-magnet synchronous machine coupled straight to the traction sheave. It is common on mid- and high-rise work, but it is not the same as MRL: it runs with a machine room or without one. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A traction elevator moves the cabin with steel ropes over a motor-driven sheave and a counterweight. It is the usual choice for mid-rise and high-rise buildings with heavier traffic. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A geared elevator uses an electric motor and a gearbox to reduce speed and raise torque, then drive the traction sheave. It still suits low- and mid-rise residential buildings that already have a machine room. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A residential elevator here means the shared lift in an apartment building or complex — not a villa home-lift. Lock capacity, stops, and resident traffic before cabin finish. The drive can be traction, MRL, or hydraulic, depending on height and the shaft. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A villa elevator — often sold as a homelift or home elevator — is for a private house, duplex, or villa, not a shared apartment shaft. In Iran those labels usually overlap; measure the shaft before you compare package names. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A freight elevator moves goods and heavy loads, not passenger traffic. Cabin, doors, floor, and shaft structure are sized for cargo from the start. The drive can be traction or hydraulic, depending on rise and load. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A hospital or stretcher elevator is a building use, not a drive system. The cabin needs more depth and a wider door so a bed or stretcher plus an attendant can enter without a hard turn. Hydraulic or traction is chosen separately. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A panoramic elevator is a cabin and shaft design language, not a drive type. The view belongs to a lobby, hotel, or atrium; travel still comes from traction, or hydraulic on low-rise work. Glass must be lift safety glazing, and cleaning, privacy, and shaft structure belong in the first survey. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A car lift moves vehicles between floors. Its platform, capacity, leveling, and safety are not those of a passenger elevator, and not those of a general freight goods lift. In Atlas work in Iran, hydraulic car lifts are common — jacks, rupture valves, and precise leveling. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A wheelchair elevator is built around entry: door width, cabin floor area, handrails, control height, and leveling. It may serve a public building, clinic, or home. It is not a hospital stretcher lift and not a stairlift. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.

A duplex elevator here means a lift for a duplex or triplex house: typically two or three private stops, not a shared apartment elevator. In Iran that search overlaps villa and home-lift pages; this page owns the duplex/triplex query and points to the villa page for the broader home-lift picture. Atlas Asanbar Arsh designs and installs in Tehran, Karaj, and cities across northern Iran.