Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080236955 | EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR DOOR - An equipment ( | 10-02-2008 |
20090229923 | Traction sheave elevator without counterweight - The subject of the invention is a traction sheave elevator without counterweight, which comprises at least a drive machine with traction sheave, hoisting ropes, an elevator car guided on its track or the like, car guide rails on one side of the elevator car, which is supported on the hoisting ropes such that the hoisting ropes are on one side of the elevator car. The elevator contains a plurality of rope pulley modules, which comprise a plurality of diverting pulleys. | 09-17-2009 |
20090277725 | ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT - A toe guard ( | 11-12-2009 |
20120318615 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OR MODERNIZING A TRACTION SHEAVE ELEVATOR, AND TRACTION SHEAVE ELEVATOR - The object of the invention is a method for modernizing an elevator, and a traction sheave elevator, which elevator comprises at least an elevator car and a traction sheave that moves the elevator car by means of elevator ropes, the rim of which traction sheave comprises one or more rope grooves. In connection with modernization a traction sheave is installed as the traction sheave of the elevator, the rope grooves of which traction sheave comprise a material, the frictive traction achieved by which is greater than the frictive traction between the parent material of the metallic traction sheave and the elevator ropes. | 12-20-2012 |
20130126278 | SLIDING GUIDE SHOE AND AN ELEVATOR PROVIDED WITH A SLIDING GUIDE SHOE - A sliding guide shoe includes at least a body part, which includes at least a slide pad space for a slide pad as well as at least one fixing part for fixing the sliding guide shoe to its base. The body part is essentially the same in its cross-sectional profile throughout its whole length. An elevator is also provided with the sliding guide shoe. | 05-23-2013 |
20130220742 | ELEVATOR - An elevator includes an elevator hoistway with an elevator car arranged to move therein. The elevator car includes an interior bounded by at least the elevator care roof. A frame structure includes two parallel, horizontal, elongated roof beams that are at a horizontal distance from each other. Between the roof beams is a trough that has an upward-facing base surface, and a standing platform in connection with the roof of the elevator car that includes a standing surface, immediately above which is a space free of the parts of the elevator car and free of the ropes of the elevator, for enabling standing on top of the standing surface at least when the elevator car is situated at a distance from the top end of the elevator hoistway. The standing surface forms at least a part of the base surface of the trough. | 08-29-2013 |
20130327599 | ELEVATOR - An elevator includes a hoisting machine, hoisting roping, an elevator hoistway, and an elevator car arranged to move in the elevator hoistway, and possibly a counterweight. The elevator car includes an interior, which is bounded by at least a roof of the elevator car, and a frame structure, which includes one or more parallel, horizontal, elongated roof beams in connection with the roof of the elevator car, preferably two parallel, horizontal, elongated roof beams, and which elevator includes one or more luminaires for lighting the interior of the elevator car. The structure of each of the one or more luminaires, preferably at least the light source and/or reflective surface of each of the one or more luminaires, is mainly by the side of the one or more roof beams. | 12-12-2013 |
20140034425 | ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT - The object of the invention is an elevator arrangement, which comprises at least an elevator car configured to move up and down in an elevator hoistway and at least two compensating weights, which are for their part connected to support the elevator car by the aid of their own support means, such as by the aid of ropes or belts and also e.g. diverting pulleys, and a hoisting machine provided with at least one traction sheave or corresponding, and at least one traction means such as a rope or belt, which is configured to transmit the rotational movement of the traction sheave into movement of the elevator car and of the compensating weights. Each compensating weight is connected by the aid of a traction means to the same hoisting machine. | 02-06-2014 |
20140083802 | TENSIONING ARRANGEMENT FOR A TRACTION MEANS OF AN ELEVATOR - The object of the invention is a tensioning arrangement for a traction means of an elevator, which arrangement comprises at least an elevator car configured to move up and down in an elevator hoistway and at least one or more compensating weights, which are for their part connected to support the elevator car by the aid of their own support means, such as by the aid of ropes or belts and also of diverting pulleys, and a hoisting machine provided with at least one traction sheave or corresponding, and also at least one traction means ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140116811 | ELEVATOR AND A METHOD - The invention relates to an elevator having a hoistway, an elevator car movable in the hoistway and provided with a car brake, and a first coupling means movably mounted on the car, and a second coupling means mounted separate from the car at proximity of an end of the hoistway, the first and second coupling means being counterparts for each other and provided for being coupled in force-transmitting manner to each other, the car brake being triggerable by movement of the first coupling means. One of the first and second coupling means has coupling points at different vertical levels, and in the other of said first and second coupling means can couple to said one of the first and second coupling means at each of said coupling points. The invention also relates to a method for forming a safety space in the elevator. | 05-01-2014 |
20140174859 | SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENT AND GUIDE SHOE ARRANGEMENT FOR AN ELEVATOR - A suspension arrangement and guide shoe arrangement of an elevator, which arrangement comprises at least an elevator car and at least two compensating weights, which are for their part connected to support the elevator car by the aid of at least two suspension members, such as by the aid of ropes or belts, and also by the aid of diverting pulleys, and a hoisting machine provided with at least one traction sheave or corresponding, as well as at least two traction members, such as belts, ropes or chains, separate from the suspension members, which traction members are configured to transmit the rotational movement of the traction sheave into movement of the elevator car and of the compensating weights. There are at least four guide rails of the elevator car and they are fitted into an elevator hoistway symmetrically to each other in relation to the elevator car. | 06-26-2014 |
20140284147 | ELEVATOR CAR - The elevator car comprises a floor and a ceiling as well as side walls connecting the floor and the ceiling. At least the inner surface of at least some of the side walls of the elevator car is covered with sheets of board. The board comprises a fire retardant plywood having a front surface and an opposite back surface. The front surface of the fire retardant plywood is coated with a first material layer comprising a fire retardant laminate. The fire retardant laminate is attached with heat resistant or fire retardant glue to the fire retardant plywood. The back surface of the fire retardant plywood is coated with a second material layer having the same thickness and the same material properties as the laminate. | 09-25-2014 |
20140291074 | ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR RE-ADJUSTING THE ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT - An elevator arrangement includes a plurality of elevators in a building, which plurality includes a plurality of zoned elevators moving in an elevator hoistway, which have different ranges of movement of the elevator car in the building to each other, and which zoned elevators each have a top limit and a bottom limit of the range of movement of the elevator car, to above the top limit and to below the bottom limit of which range of movement travel of the elevator car of the zoned elevator in question is prevented. The vertical location, in relation to the building, of the top limit and/or bottom limit of the range of movement of the elevator car of each aforementioned zoned elevator can be changed. The arrangement also comprises a lobby elevator, the range of movement of the elevator car of which differs from the ranges of movement of the elevator cars of the aforementioned zoned elevators, and the stopping floors of the lobby elevator comprise a plurality of lobby floors, each of which is a stopping floor of one or more zoned elevators belonging to the aforementioned zoned elevator plurality. A method is provided for re-adjusting the elevator arrangement, wherein the range of movement of the elevator car of the zoned elevator in question is changed to reach to a different height in the elevator hoistway by changing the vertical location in relation to the building of the top limit and/or the bottom limit of the range of movement of the elevator car of the zoned elevator in question. | 10-02-2014 |
20140332326 | APPARATUS FOR FIXING A HOISTING MACHINE OF AN ELEVATOR AND A FIXING ARRANGEMENT - The object of the invention is an apparatus for fixing a hoisting machine of an elevator in an elevator comprising at least an elevator car configured to move reciprocally in an elevator hoistway and at least one or more counterweights or compensating weights, which are for their part connected to support the elevator car by the aid of at least one support member, such as by the aid of a rope or a belt, and also by the aid of diverting pulleys, and a hoisting machine provided with at least one traction sheave or corresponding, and also at least one or more traction members, such as a belt, a rope or a chain, which are configured to transmit the rotational movement of the traction sheave into movement of the elevator car guided by the guide rails and of the one or more counterweights or compensating weights guided by the counterweight guide rails or compensating weight guide rails. The apparatus comprises a machine station, comprising at least fixing points and means for fixing the traction sheave of the elevator, the motor and the diverting pulleys of the traction members into their position essentially precisely in relation to each other. | 11-13-2014 |
20150068325 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THE LOAD OF A CAR OF A TRACTION SHEAVE ELEVATOR - The object of the invention is a method and an apparatus for measuring the load of an elevator car, which elevator comprises at least a hoisting machine plus shaft, said hoisting machine being provided with a motor, and a traction sheave fitted onto the shaft, and also a brake, and in which solution the load of an elevator car is measured by the aid of a measuring means. The load of the elevator car is measured with the measuring means from the shaft of the traction sheave of the hoisting machine. | 03-12-2015 |