paternoster

Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.

They are typically loaded in groups of about half a dozen onto something like a paternoster lift, which lowers them gradually into ever higher concentrations of the gas.

The loop: down and back up There have been no new paternoster lifts installed since 1974, because of access problems and safety concerns.

The building still has a working paternoster to its offices, one of those fabulous elevators with open cabins that never stop going up and down. 

After the 70th Psalm comes a paternoster sub silentio—that is, all present 172 stand up, and a short silent inward prayer ensues, and a pause.