The many casino’s of Las Vegas are all fighting for your attention, and besides ads (link digital marquee) and attractions, another way of getting people in is by making it as easy as possible to get to the casino floor. From monorails to escalators, each casino has its own tricks. However, none are as unique as the spiral escalators in Ceasars palace, one of only three such instalations in the US.
The spiral escalator is a typical example of technology that is much more special and complicated than you might think. Bringing many people up and down the casino without getting a second thought.
However, instalations if this type are very complicated to create if you think about it. How do the steps move around a curve and then straighten out? How does the escalator deal with the fact that one side moves faster than the other? How does it prevent problems with torque if people stand more on one side than the other? All very interesting questions for people with an engineering background, but unfortunately the answers are mostly kept secret by Mitsubishi Electric, world’s only company that creates these kind of escelators.
From what we know, they do use complicated gears to account for the differential rotation, and are driven from the center, which is unusual for normal escalators.
Additionally, installing such an escalator is no easy task. Where normal escelators can be put together in a matter of hours, the spiral ones require days of specialized labor, where all the custom parts are installed carefully. Given that a small error could completely block the escalator. For what price does one get such a marvel you might wonder? Around a million dollars, about 4 times the price of a normal one.
https://www.mitsubishielevator.com/projects/forum-shops-at-caesars-palace
https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Spiral_escalator
Know Before You Go
The escelators are freely accessible.
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