dumbwaiter

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According to OSHA, the companies’ employees and subcontractors were exposed to “pinch-point hazards” associated with the dumbwaiter and didn’t ensure employees and contractors were qualified to operate the device.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

It's a dumbwaiter that was designed to carry these heavy glass plates.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023

He also tinkered with a way of improving a dumbwaiter, the elevator typically used to deliver food and other goods from one floor to another.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

When it got crazy, they would put me in this dumbwaiter between levels in the restaurant and send me to this downstairs bar.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2018

At that very moment, for example, Will was inside the walls of the Ashers’ apartment building, navigating with the help of an outmoded dumbwaiter that probably no one but him knew existed anymore.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff