Abstract: An elevator system includes a cage hoisted by a rope; a counter weight hoisted by the rope; a traction machine in the elevator shaft and higher than a cage stopping position at the uppermost floor, having a driving sheave around which the rope is passed, and a motor for driving the driving sheave to move the cage and the counter weight in the elevator shaft in accordance with the driving of the driving sheave; and a deflector wheel with upper and lower ends lower and higher, respectively, than ends of the traction machine, spaced from the traction machine, in plan, and wound partially with the rope, the rope extending upward in the elevator shaft from the counter weight, passing around the deflector wheel and driving sheave, and extending downward to the cage.

Abstract: When a conventional machine roomless elevator system is formed by providing a traction machine between a passage for a cage and an inner surface of an elevator shaft, it becomes necessary that a cross-sectional area of the elevator shaft be increased in accordance with an increase in the sizes of the traction machine.