Abstract:
An elevator system includes guide rail mounted machine (16) and a sheave assembly( 32) that accommodates a guide rail (38) within a hoistway. The inventive sheave assembly includes individual sheave portions (54) rotatable along a common axis. At least two of the sheave portions are spaced apart along a shaft (50) and a portion of the guide rail extends toward the axis beyond a plane formed tangent to the outside diameter of the sheave portions.
Abstract:
An elevator system includes guide rail mounted machine (16) and a sheave assembly( 32) that accommodates a guide rail (38) within a hoistway. The inventive sheave assembly includes individual sheave portions (54) rotatable along a common axis. At least two of the sheave portions are spaced apart along a shaft (50) and a portion of the guide rail extends toward the axis beyond a plane formed tangent to the outside diameter of the sheave portions.
Abstract:
An elevator system includes guide rail mounted machine (16) and a sheave assembly( 32) that accommodates a guide rail (38) within a hoistway. The inventive sheave assembly includes individual sheave portions (54) rotatable along a common axis. At least two of the sheave portions are spaced apart along a shaft (50) and a portion of the guide rail extends toward the axis beyond a plane formed tangent to the outside diameter of the sheave portions.
Abstract:
An elevator system includes a hoistway defined in a surrounding structure, and an elevator car and at least one counterweight disposed in the hoistway. The hoistway defines an overhead space over a vertical extent of the hoistway between a ceiling of the hoistway and a top portion of the elevator car at its highest operable location along the hoistway. At least one drive motor is disposed in the overhead space and drivingly couples and suspends the elevator car via at least one flat rope or belt.
Abstract:
An elevator system includes a hoistway defined in a surrounding structure, and an elevator car and at least one counterweight disposed in the hoistway. The hoistway defines an overhead space over a vertical extent of the hoistway between a ceiling of the hoistway and a top portion of the elevator car at its highest operable location along the hoistway. At least one drive motor is disposed in the overhead space and drivingly couples and suspends the elevator car via at least one flat rope or belt.