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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7874404 | Elevator system having drive motor located between elevator car and hoistway sidewall An elevator system includes a hoistway defined by a surrounding structure. An elevator car and counterweight are located in the hoistway, and a drive motor is located between the elevator car and a sidewall of the hoistway. The drive motor drivingly couples and susp... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7398863 | Safety device for elevators A safety device brakes an elevator car with a guide rail exhibiting an oblong guide flange. The safety device includes a base carrying a retaining element and an abutment with the guide flange positioned therebetween. A mechanism squeezes, when braking, a braking el... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7383924 | Machine room-less elevator Rubber vibration isolators are held between a base frame supporting a driving device and an upper deflecting sheave, and a support connected to car guide rails and a counterweight guide rail. The rubber vibration isolators are held between a horizontal member and ve... | 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 |
| 7353912 | Elevator system The invention relates to an elevator system with at least one shaft, in which at least two cars can be made to travel along a common traveling path, and also with a shaft information system for determining the positions and speeds of the cars, which is connected to ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7331424 | Elevator apparatus In an elevator apparatus, multiple cars are raised and lowered within a hoistway. The cars within the hoistway are adjacent to each other when located at the same height. If at least one of the cars is defined as a first car and a car adjacent to the first car is de... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7303050 | Fastening element for elevator guide rails A sound-damping and/or vibration-damping fastening element for elevator guide rails includes an anchor rail connected by a damping medium with a support rail. The anchor rail supports the elevator guide rail and is partially embedded in the damping medium. The ancho... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7281608 | Loading/unloading device for shelving The invention relates to a rack serving device (1) with a load-bearing means (4) displaceable in the height direction of a mast (2), the mast (2) being guided by means of bogie assemblies (7, 8) on bottom and top guide tracks and m... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7258204 | Guide device for guidance of a load carrier of an elevator installation A guide device guides a load carrier of an elevator installation along a guide surface and comprises a guide element contacting the guide surface and connected by a connecting element with the load carrier such that the guide element is movable relative to the load ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7234566 | Elevator insert Inserts (10 or 10A) for mounting rails (302) for rollers (301) on a cab in a shaft (300) of an elevator are described. Also, insert 10A is particularly useful for mounting flooring in the elevator shaft (300). The ins... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225902 | Elevator In an elevator apparatus, a car that is raised and lowered within a hoistway has a car frame and a cage supported on the car frame. Chamfered portions are provided at corner portions of the cage. The car frame has vertical columns arranged along the chamfered portio... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7204348 | Assembly arrangement of a lift drive in a lift shaft An assembly arrangement for a lift construction supports the lift drive at the upper end of both a support column and lift cage and counterweight guide rails, allowing the lift drive load to be transferred to the floor of the lift by each of the supporting members. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7165656 | Elevator and guide fixing bracket for an elevator Elevator, preferably an elevator without machine room, comprising at least an elevator car (101) moving along guide rails (1), a counterweight (102) moving along guide rails (2) and an elevator motor (106) driving them, wherein the... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7150342 | Elevator structure mounting system having horizontal member for reducing building loads at top of hoistway A structural system for elevator assemblies includes a horizontal compression member positioned near the top of the elevator hoistway for reacting to inwardly directed tension loads and moment forces applied to the hoistway wall and connection components resulting f... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7147086 | Guide rail arrangement for elevators A guide rail arrangement for avoiding the costly and time-consuming aligning of the guide rails for a counterweight and an elevator car includes guide rails fastened to a mounting bracket connected with the shaft wall at the door side. The guide rails of two counter... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7137485 | Procedure and apparatus for the installation of an elevator A procedure and an apparatus for plumbing and installing the shaft equipment for an elevator uses a plumbing jig. The plumbing jig is mounted in the upper part of the elevator shaft from the top floor, plumb lines are attached to the plumbing jig from the top floor ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7093457 | Annular cooler pallet construction A pallet construction for an annular cooler forms a gas permeable surface for supporting and transporting material during processing thereof. The pallet construction includes a pallet deck having a series of substantially parallel rows of spaced apart elongated slot... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093691 | Portable scissor-lift-assembly A lift assembly includes a first platform provided with a top surface, a pair of opposed sides, and wheels and brackets connected to one of the sides for rotating the assembly. A plurality of rectilinear support shafts have opposed end portions conjoined to the plat... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7000736 | Elevator pit set assembly An elevator pit assembly for mounting and supporting car and counterweight rails, preferably in a tri-rail configuration, has first and second plates joinable in alternative right-angle configurations. The first plate accommodates a rail assembly having car and coun... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6991070 | Elevator guide assembly system A lift guide joint system for joining two guides having a joint-bridge plate connected to each side of the two guides is disclosed. The joint-bridge plate has a central body placed on an upper surface of the wings of the two guides. An upper flap of the joint-bridge... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6991069 | Cable elevator with a drive plate A cable elevator includes a car which travels on first parallel guides and a counterweight which travels on second parallel guides, the guides being located in a respective first and second parallel planes. Drive machinery is arranged on an engine mount between the ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6942067 | Portable emergency drive for an elevator An emergency drive is a toothed element such as a gear rim, is arranged on a traction sheave of an elevator drive. During emergency operation, the gear rim is driven by means of a pinion of an auxiliary engine. The engine is installed on the elevator drive only duri... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6920963 | Apparatus having vertically movable personnel cages for a spreader An apparatus for transporting people by a spreader having a vertically moveable head beam with a pair of horizontally extendable long bars includes a pair of personnel cages carried by a pair of cantilever beams extending from a housing. The personnel cages can be m... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6854564 | Elevator system An elevator system is provided for the transport of loads and/or persons in an elevator shaft. At least two elevator cars can be moved in the elevator shaft and are connected to a counterweight. A drive is associated with each car. At least one common track section ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6830133 | Connector brackets An apparatus for quickly, easily and adjustably connecting elevator car and counterweight guide rail support brackets to the walls of an elevator hoistway and also to either vertically or horizontally extend structural beams that are disposed within the elevator hoi... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6830131 | Elevator hoisting machine A hoisting machine for an elevator, mounted on and fastened to one side of an elevator or counterweight guide rail. The machine comprises at least an elevator motor and a traction sheave driving the elevator ropes, and two operating brakes of the elevator. The hoist... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6672013 | Method of installing elevator rails An improved method for mounting elevator rails within a hoistway includes the initial step of securing support brackets to a pair of rails. The brackets, rails, a machine for driving a cab and a dead end hitch are then mounted within the hoistway. A cab m... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6662408 | Elevator load bearing termination assembly with gripping inserts A device for securing an end on a load bearing member in an elevator system includes a socket, a wedge and at least one insert member. The socket at least partially receives the insert member and wedge to maintain the end of the load bearing member in pos... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6655500 | Traction sheave elevator In a traction sheave elevator, the elevator car is suspended on hoisting ropes by a diverting pulley. The diverting pulley used to suspend the elevator car on the hoisting ropes is mounted on one side of the elevator car.... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6523318 | Integral, external carrying track for building A carrying track for a building, which includes a building including a plurality of floors, a track extending from a lower floor of the building to a floor above the lower floor, the track structurally forming part of the floors and part of an outside sur... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6481538 | Elevator guide rail mounting assembly An elevator system includes a mounting device that facilitates more readily installing guide rails within a hoistway and supporting the elevator cab and counterweight on the same rails. A plurality of mounting devices are used along the length of the hois... | 11/19/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6446762 | Elevator machine support frame mounted to hoistway wall An elevator machine mounting system for use in a machineroom-less elevator system includes a two-piece frame that is anchored to an elevator hoistway. The first frame piece is permanently anchored to the hoistway wall. The frame is anchored at the top of ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6431322 | Plunger guide for a telescopic jack in a hydraulic elevator A plunger guide for a telescopic jack in a hydraulic elevator includes a crenelated guide rail with a top surface, two opposing side surfaces which are perpendicular to the top surface, and first and second flanged projections respectively projecting from... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6425463 | Non-personnel lifting device A lifting device for transporting items of personal property between floors of a building is provided which includes an a vertically adjustable outer frame, a pair of vertically adjustable spaced apart guide rails attached to the outer frame, a lift conta... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6397574 | Sheathless synthetic fiber rope A synthetic rope has multiple layers of load-bearing aramide fiber strands laid together with a coating on the synthetic fiber strands in the outermost layer of strands. The coating includes an impregnating substance with additives of UV stabilizers, shor... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6302239 | Elevator apparatus with hoisting machine beneath elevator car In an elevator apparatus, a hoisting machine having a drum is disposed on a bottom portion of a hoistway. The hoisting machine is within a car projection region obtained by a projection of the car along the hoistway and a portion of the drum is disposed o... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6234276 | Traction type elevator having cable hitches securing cable ends to guide rails An elevator including a cage configured to ascend and descend in an elevator shaft along a cage guide rail, a counterweight configured to ascend and descend in the elevator shaft along a counterweight guide rail, a cable configured to hang and connect the... | 05/22/2001 |
