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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7775326 | Elevator apparatus In an elevator apparatus, first and second raised/lowered bodies are raised and lowered by hoisting machines. The second raised/lowered body has a raised/lowered main body and a rocking member rockably connected to the raised/lowered main body. The raised/lowered ma... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7681692 | Drive motor for an elevator installation and method of mounting a drive motor An elevator installation includes a drive unit moving a car and a counterweight in an elevator shaft. The drive unit has a drive motor and a brake coupled to a drive shaft and mounted on a crossbeam in the elevator shaft or on the shaft ceiling. The drive unit has t... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7422089 | Drive unit for an elevator An elevator drive unit including a traction sheave supported by a shaft rotatably supported by a pair of bearings. Mounted on opposite free ends of the shaft are rotors of a pair of electric motors. Cage-housings on a pair of spaced bearing end-plates retain the sta... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7383921 | Elevator with a support for a hoisting machine An elevator including a car placed in an elevator shaft so as to move vertically along a pair of car guide rails, and a counterweight placed in the elevator shaft so as to move vertically along a pair of counterweight guide rails. A rope connects the car and the cou... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377366 | Sheave assembly for an elevator system 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 ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367431 | Elevator system A wedge-ribbed belt supports an elevator car by underlooping and engages a drive pulley of a drive mounted at the head of an elevator shaft. The belt has a running surface facing the drive pulley with a plurality of ribs and grooves extending in parallel in a longit... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7344003 | Elevator control device for plural traction units An elevator control device for controllably driving multiple traction units includes position sensors and current supplies. Each of the current supplies includes a position controller for generating a speed command for the corresponding traction unit based on input ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7316296 | Elevator apparatus In an elevator apparatus, a first driving machine having a first drive sheave and a second driving machine having a second drive sheave are disposed in an upper portion of a hoistway. A car and first and second counterweights are suspended inside the hoistway by a m... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7296661 | Elevator levelling Elevators are maintained in level condition by four fixed ropes or cables passing diagonally across an elevator in angularly related opposite directions. The ropes extend from opposite corners of the elevator to fixed upper and lower ends. Moving the elevator causes... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7267200 | Elevator with compact rope suspension An elevator with an elevator car, guide rails, a counterweight and counterweight guide rails is arranged to minimize shaft space requirements. This elevator has a plurality of diverting pulleys mounted in an upper part of the shaft. A drive motor with a traction she... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7261184 | Elevator system and triangulated support structure for the same The invention comprises a support structure for an elevator system comprising a pit channel module having a first leg and a second leg connected at a corner, a header module having three sides forming a triangle which is disposed in a horizontal plane above the pit ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7195107 | Machine having pulley coupled to rotor and partially overlying stator, elevator system including machine, and drive method A machine includes a motor that includes a stator carrying a concentrated winding wound on teeth and a rotor rotatable about the stator. The rotor includes a tubular casing and permanent magnets, and a pulley coupled to the rotor. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191874 | Carrying apparatus The present invention provides a carrying apparatus that prevents an elevating motor and the like from projecting from a stacker crane to hinder the stacker crane from interfering with walls of an automatic warehouse. A traveling vehicle 2 of a stacker crane ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7156209 | Elevator roping arrangement An elevator installation includes an elevator car located in a hoistway and having a floor, and a rear wall extending upward from the floor. A counterweight is located in the hoistway adjacent to the rear wall of the elevator car. An underslung sheave assembly is lo... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7117977 | Elevator apparatus including car with suspending pulley devices on opposite sides of the car An elevator apparatus has first and second car suspending pulley devices mounted on a car. First and second counterweight suspending pulley devices are mounted on a counterweight. In the upper portion of the interior of a hoistway, there are arranged a car side retu... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108105 | Cable lift without a machine room In a cable lift, with a single compartment or shaft (1) for housing a movable cage (2) and an apparatus (3), comprising at least one fixed winch (4) and a counterweight (5), for displacement of the cage (2), the counterweigh... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7025177 | Elevator system without machine An elevator system without a machine room is disclosed. In this elevator system without a machine room according to the present invention, a built-in winding apparatus is installed in the interior of a hoistway for moving an elevator car. In addition, the elevator s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6758309 | Assembly for supporting the end of a load bearing member in an elevator system A termination assembly for supporting and securing an end section of a belt in an elevator system includes a first support member that is fixed in a selected position within the elevator system. A second support member of one example is at least partially received o... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6598707 | Elevator An elevator installed in an elevator shaft has a cage, a counterweight, hoist cables suspending the cage and the counterweight, and a driving unit disposed outside a space in which the cage moves vertically in the elevator shaft, and provided with drive s... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6491136 | Traction type elevator apparatus An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a s... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6488124 | Elevator In an elevator, a driving unit is installed at the top of an elevator shaft above a counterweight. Traction sheaves engage with ropes and are rotated by the driving device. These traction sheaves are positioned close to wall surfaces of the elevator shaft... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6471012 | Pulley system for a traction sheave elevator The invention relates to a traction sheave elevator. The elevator car has been arranged to move along guide track in an elevator shaft. The counterweight has been arranged to move along guide track in the elevator shaft. Both ends of rope are attached to ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6405833 | Flexible flat rope sheave assembly with separate shoulder and flange surfaces having varying friction properties A segmented elevator sheave assembly has independently variable shoulder and crowning elements for use with flexible flat ropes in an elevator system. This enables selection of high-traction surface finish and crowning for the sheave groove that contacts ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6401871 | Tension member for an elevator A tension member for an elevator system has an aspect ratio of greater than one, where aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of tension member width w to thickness t (w/t). The increase in aspect ratio results in a reduction in the maximum rope pressure an... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6390243 | Traction type elevator apparatus An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a s... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6367587 | Elevator having a drive machine with a rotating traction sheave between multiple motors along the axis of rotation An elevator drive machine includes multiple electric motors and a traction sheave. The traction sheave is placed between the motors. With this arrangement, a higher torque is generated by the drive machine as compared to conventional solutions. Furthermor... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6345695 | Elevator system with counter-rotating drive sheaves An elevator system including two counter rotating drive sheaves and a drive rope frictionally engaging both drive sheaves to position an elevator car within a hoistway.... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6241048 | Storage platform and lift apparatus A storage platform and lift apparatus comprises a plurality of platforms; four cables; a plurality of elongated brace members; four elongated vertical members, each having a plurality of apertures extending therethrough; and a drive axle. A pulley wheel i... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6202793 | Elevator machine with counter-rotating rotors An elevator drive machine having two counter-rotating rotors provides a lightweight, efficient machine that eliminates reaction torque on surrounding structures by directing reaction forces and driving forces to the elevator car being lifted.... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6193018 | Belt-climbing elevator having drive in counterweight An elevator system includes a counterweight-drive assembly (26) having a motor (32) and drive pulley (36) mounted internally to engage a drive belt (42) for climbing or descending with respect thereto, resulting in raising or lowering of an elevator car (... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6193017 | Pulley-driven elevator A traction-sheave elevator is provided without a counterweight. The elevator includes an elevator car that is guided in an elevator shaft. A rope is used to carry the car. The elevator further include at least two motor-driven traction-sheaves that are co... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6062344 | Elevator system In an elevator system, first and second car carrying bases move up and down along first and second segments of a hoistway, respectively. First and second support members are located on the first and second car carrying bases, respectively. A car is moved ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5931265 | Rope climbing elevator A rope climbing elevator (10) includes prime movers (40,42) and drive sheaves (32,34) secured to the car (10) and engaging stationary ropes (12-26).... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5899300 | Mounting for an elevator traction machine Mounting apparatus for a traction machine disposed in a hoistway includes a pair of beams that extend through the hoistway to the pit. One of the beams includes a mounting plate disposed at the top of the beam and to which the machine is fastened. The ele... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5657835 | Elevator shuttle employing horizontally transferred cab A horizontally moveable elevator cab (14) is transferred between a plurality of car frames (16-18) in successive hoistways (11-13) by horizontal motive means (44-47) in response to a signal processing controller (43, FIGS. 4 and 5).... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5370206 | Driving system for elevator A driving system for elevators includes a cab, a pair of chain suspenders on the bottom of the cab and suspended from the roof of a building, a synchronized transmission device having a plurality of gears and chain wheels of different diameters, connected... | 12/06/1994 |
| 4773507 | Arrangement for mounting a lift driving device An arrangement for mounting a lift driving device to the top part of a lift cage in a lift of the type wherein the driving device includes at least two horizontally spaced driving wheels, each of which engages a respective elongate flexible member. The dr... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4756388 | Elevator with traction sheave An elevator has a drive mechanism connected to a traction sheave provided with grooves, over which run parallel suspension cables, and an elevator cage and an associated counterweight suspended from the suspension cables. The elevator is also provided wit... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4469198 | Outside rescue elevator system for high-rise buildings An outside rescue elevator system is shown for use on a high-rise building. The elevator system can be installed on existing buildings, as well as being included in new construction. The system includes a dual compartment track mounted vertically on the o... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4109896 | Boat hoists A boat hoist has longitudinally spaced lifting beams together with winch and cable means for raising and lowering the beams simultaneously by manipulation of a single hand wheel to move a boat straight up and down, there being a scissors support for each ... | 08/29/1978 |
