hoisting machine "hoisting machine" means any equipment for lifting, raising or lowering load such as a lift, escalator, hoist, crane, winch, dragline, piling machine, aerial cableway, funicular railway, access platform, dumbwaiter, vertical conveyor lifter and mechanical loading ramp, and includes transporter, walkalator and other similar equipment, but does not include manual hoist and materials handling equipment; [Subs. Act A1268] ACT 139 - FACTORIES AND MACHINERY ACT 1967 (REVISED 1974) 3. Interpretation - general.