Abstract:
An elevator system including an elevator car mounted for movement in a building to serve the floors therein. The elevator system includes control apparatus for selecting the service direction in which the elevator car will proceed from a floor it is serving. A display having an array of electrically energizable elements visually indicates the selected up or down service direction by sequentially energizing the elements to provide a predetermined pattern which moves upwardly, or downwardly, through the array, or which causes a predetermined pattern to lengthen in the upward, or downward direction.