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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1981
Joseph Bittar, Simsbury, CT (US);
Frederick H Nowak, Southington, CT (US);
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
Requests for elevator express priority service are assigned to a car committable to the floor of the request if possible, or otherwise to a car which can reach the floor of the request sooner than other available cars. Whenever there are requests for express priority service and no cars available to respond thereto, polling of floor landings in subsequent cycles to determine if there are requests which can be assigned is commenced at a floor landing next in sequence to the one for which an outstanding request was unassignable for lack of available cars, and the unassignable request is reset so as to provide an indication thereof to the requestor. Express priority service requests are reassigned whenever the assignment is outstanding for an impermissible time.