paternoster

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

Robert and Thomas and the priest, whispering paternosters, followed the prints all the way to the mill where, crossing themselves, they unlatched the door.

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.