Abstract: A wall panel assembly for use as an interior wall of an elevator car includes a wall panel embossed to form a central portion, a decorative panel having an ornamental front surface, and an adhesive material adhering the decorative panel to the wall panel. When the wall panel is installed in an elevator car, the decorative panel ornamental front surface is visible to passengers. The decorative panel can be formed of a flexible laminate material to follow the contour of the central portion. The central portion is surrounded by a rib or curved portion to hide an edge of the decorative panel.

Abstract: A cooling device for a drive fluid of a lifting device which drives a car of a hydraulic elevator. A fan is present in order to cool the drive fluid. The fan is arranged on the car so that it can ventilate the interior of the car and at least part of the lifting device. The cooling device can be used as a main cooling system and as an auxiliary cooling system. It is suitable in particular for hydraulic elevator systems which do not have a hole in the earth to receive the lifting device.

Abstract: An elevator has a rope connected at a first end thereof to a top of a car and at a second end thereof to a top of a counterweight and guided and driven by a sheave that is rotated by a motor. A compensating rope suspends between the car and the counterweight. The compensating rope has a curving portion, a first linear portion on the car side of the curving portion, and a second linear portion on the counterweight side of the curving portion for compensating an imbalance of weight between a portion of the rope on the car side of the sheave and a portion of the rope on the counterweight side of the sheave. A first guide is arranged to guide the first linear portion and the second linear portion, and a second guide is arranged below the first guide and positioned between lines extending from the first linear portion and the second linear portion for guiding the curving portion of the compensating rope. A frame is arranged in a pit of an elevator shaft for supporting the first guide and the second guide.

Abstract: An elevator control panel device, including an elevator control panel disposed in a doorjamb forming an entrance to the elevator in a building, a panel door rotatably pivoted via a hinge at a hinge side of the panel door and providing access to the control panel, an automatic closing mechanism configured to force the panel door in the closing direction so as automatically to close the panel door when the panel door is open, and at least one lock provided for locking the panel door at an opposite side of the panel door opposite to the hinge side of the panel door, a first member mounted on the panel door, and a second member mounted on the doorjamb, the first member being configured to engage the second member in a locked state automatically upon closing of the panel door.

Abstract: A system is provided for predicting a load degree of a customer's elevator from the information about the customer's building and elevator, creating and displaying the maintenance plan according to the load degree, and selecting a proper maintenance plan in consideration of the load degree of the customer's elevator and the customer's needs.

Abstract: An elevator cable cleaning apparatus employing wire brushes. The brushes are securely mounted to brush frame members which are in turn adjustably connected to mounting members. The mounting members are adjustably connected to the legs or frame of the hoist machine of the elevator brush frame members. The adjustable connection of the mounting members allows the brushes to be configured to match the angle of the cables. The apparatus can be configured either in a single or dual brush assembly in order respectively clean one side or opposite sides of the cables.

Abstract: A cooling device for a drive fluid of a lifting device which drives a car of a hydraulic elevator. A fan is present in order to cool the drive fluid. The fan is arranged on the car so that it can ventilate the interior of the car and at least part of the lifting device. The cooling device can be used as a main cooling system and as an auxiliary cooling system. It is suitable in particular for hydraulic elevator systems which do not have a hole in the earth to receive the lifting device.

Abstract: A hoist tool for lifting a machine assembly in an elevator to an installation position is mounted to a machine beam which also supports the machine assembly. The hoist tool is thus mounted in a location where it does not require any additional axial space. Preferably, the hoist tool is mounted to one lateral side of the machine assembly, and within an axial extension of the machine assembly downwardly from the machine beam into the hoistway.

Abstract: 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 the hoistway and at the floor slab of the top landing. The first frame piece includes top counterweight rail brackets and a portion of the rail bracket for the car and counterweight at the top landing level. The first frame piece also includes a counterweight dead-end hitch and a controller/drive mounting. The second frame piece is fitted to the first frame piece after the elevator machine is mounted to the second frame piece. The second frame piece is adjustable postwise with respect to the first frame and then bolted thereto.

Abstract: An upper cart 12 and a lower cart 2 have running motors 4, 14, respectively, for controlling these carts in a manner overlapping each other on a vertical line. A mast 18 is formed into a truss structure, and an elevating platform 20 has a slide fork a load on which is supported on a shelf support of a rack. The present invention provides a light stacker crane operating at a high speed.

Abstract: In a rope supporting apparatus for an elevator, a column-like body along a guide rail provided within a hoist way is mounted on the guide rail through support bodies located at upper and lower ends of the guide rail. A rope end fixing member to which an end of a rope is fixed is fastened to the column-like body. The column-like body has a higher bending strength than the guide rail. Since the support bodies at both upper and lower ends of the column-like body are disposed with a sufficient distance between them, a pivoting reactive force, which is a load generated in the support bodies in a direction perpendicular to a center axis of the rail, becomes small, and any bending moment applied to the guide rail by the pivoting reactive force is smaller than the bending moment applied to the column-like body.

Abstract: A hoisting machine (1) for an elevator (54), mounted on and fastened to one side of an elevator or counterweight guide rail (6). The machine comprises at least an elevator motor (2) and a traction sheave (4) driving the elevator ropes (5), and two operating brakes (103) of the elevator. The hoisting machine (1) is fastened to the guide rail (6) via the operating brakes (103) or by a point in the immediate vicinity of the operating brakes.

Abstract: 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 container having guide members positioned thereon to guide the lift container along said guide rails and to allow the lift container to move vertically along said guide rails, and a drive mechanism including a motorized drive pulley, a plurality of idler pulleys and drive belt. The drive belt is connected at one end to a top wall of said lifting container and is connected at an opposite end to the bottom wall of said lifting container.

Abstract: A maintenance trestle is stowable in folded-together form in the hatch cover of an elevator car. The maintenance trestle is erected by tilting the hatch cover into the car interior about a first fulcrum. The maintenance trestle is now accessible in folded-together form and includes transverse connectors. Several supports arranged in the car walls are pivotable into the car and are engaged by the transverse connectors. The transverse connectors carry plates forming a platform for supporting a person. Stays for stabilizing the maintenance trestle diagonally extend between the supports and the car floor.

Abstract: A method and device for hanging elevator pads. An elevator pad clamp is disclosed that includes a back plate having an attachment end for holding the back plate in relation to an elevator wall and having two wing segments extending away from a surface of the back plate. A clamp plate is hinged to the wing segments at a clamp axis, and a spring is hinged to the wing segments and positioned to bias the clamp plate in a first state. A lever portion is hinged to the wing segments at a lever axis. The lever portion has an urging member shaped to urge against a first surface of the clamp plate as the lever portion is rotated about the lever axis to cause the clamp plate to rotate about the clamp axis. The clamping device has two states. In an open state the clamp plate and the back plate define an open set of elevator-pad receiving jaws. The device may remain in the open state without depressing the lever. In a closed state, the jaws are closed and locked.

Abstract: Arrangement for guiding a car cable has one end of the car cable attached to the elevator car while the other end is attached to a connection point in the elevator shaft. The car cable forms a loop hanging below its points of attachment. The arrangement comprises at least one cable holder. The cable portion between the attachment point and the lowest point of the cable loop can be held by the cable holder so as to limit the lateral motion of the cable.

Abstract: The invention relates to a procedure and an apparatus for the installation of an elevator. According to the invention, at least one suspension element is fixed to the upper part of the elevator shaft, to which element is fitted a suspension device used to support shaft equipment during installation. The suspension device is mounted on the suspension element using a mounting tool from the top floor landing.

Abstract: An elevator guide system for flat rope tracking prevents the flat rope from hitting the shoulders on a rotating sheave to prevent premature degradation emitting objectionable sounds. The rope guide system includes one or more guide bodies having channels generally aligned with sheave grooves to which each block is adjacently positioned using a frame-mount. The guide bodies align the flat belt on entry into and exit from a sheave. The guide bodies may have a planar back surface, or a circular back surface, with the channel sidewalls disposed thereon and extending outwardly at right angles therefrom.

Abstract: An elevator system includes a hoistway that extends upwardly from a pit area to an upper hoistway area. A support plate extends across a lateral width of the hoistway and is mounted between a machine base and a guide rail assembly. A hoist tool is mounted within the hoistway near the upper hoistway area for lifting the machine base and rail assembly upwardly through the hoistway from the pit area to the top of the hoistway. The hoist tool supports a first set of pulleys and the support plate supports a second set of pulleys. A cable is threaded through the first and second sets of pulleys and is connected to a hoist machine for lifting the machine base and guide rail assembly to an installation position in the upper hoistway area via the hoist tool and pulley system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a procedure and an apparatus for the installation of an elevator. According to the invention, at least one suspension element (16,17) is fixed to the upper part of the elevator shaft, to which element is fitted a suspension device (24) used to support shaft equipment during installation. The suspension device (24) is mounted on the suspension element (16,17) using a mounting tool (22) from the top floor landing (11).

Abstract: An elevator installation having a system of making payments so that the installation can be operated as a means of transport for providing chargeable transportation services for persons and/or goods. Also provided is an identification device for recognition of types of cashless payment, a calculation device for cashless calculation of transportation services to, for example, trip destinations input within a time window, and a charging device for cashless debiting of the costs of transportation services. The identification device can recognize different types of cashless payment such as tokens, tokens with electronic chips, prepayment cards, cards or keys with data carriers, or transmitter/receiver systems or biometric systems with individual data of the user. The charging for transportation services can, for example, take place in relation to operations-specific and/or user-specific criteria.

Abstract: A control panel is divided into units in accordance with each control function, units to be controlled by or connected to the divided unit are divided into unit groups in accordance with a place where the unit is to be disposed, and unit groups having a relationship form a control section, the control section being disposed in the vicinity of the unit group so that it is unnecessary to provide a large integral control panel. There is no difficulty in finding an installation place for the control panel, it is unnecessary to prepare a special machine room, it is possible to provide the control panel in an empty space around the respective unit to be controlled, and to effectively use the building while enhancing the layout of the units and it is possible to quickly control a localized situation for the unit to be controlled.

Abstract: An auxiliary safety lift device for a cab of an elevator includes a box having a first side defining a through hole and a second side defining a chamber, a slide groove defined in a front side of the chamber, an inspection board made of transparent material secured in the second side of the box and aligning with the through hole of the box so that a user can view and inspect an ambient environment from the inspection board through the through hole of the box, a control panel secured in the chamber of the box and defining a plurality of receiving spaces, a plurality of control buttons each secured in a respective one of the receiving spaces of the control panel, a safety board slidably secured in the slide groove of the chamber of the box, an outer cover plate pivotally mounted on the box for encompassing the box, and two sensors, wherein a first one of the two sensors is mounted between the box and the outer cover plate, and a second one of the two sensors is mounted on one side of the safety board.

Abstract: An elevator, particularly a friction driven elevator, with a cage guided in an elevator shaft and with a driving motor with associated control cabinet. According to the invention, in case of need and to provide access to the driving motor and/or control cabinet, a closed power unit space is provided which can be temporarily set up in the elevator shaft, whereby the operation of the cage in both portions of the elevator shaft which are situated below or above the temporarily set up power unit space remains unaffected. In the region of the power unit disposed in the shaft, the control cabinet is disposed in the shaft alongside the path on which the cage travels and there is provided at least one plate which, in order to form a negotiable platform and/or a protective roof, can be moved into a horizontal position associated with the control cabinet. Advantageously, in normal operation of the elevator, the plate serves as a cover for the control cabinet and is rotatably articulated on the control cabinet.

Abstract: A fastening system for lift shaft information transmitters includes multiple carriers to support shaft information transmitters in different height positions for each story upon cables stretched over the entire height of the shaft. A respective bracket arranged at a guide rail may be provided at each of the lower and upper shaft ends. Tension springs, which are connected at one end each with a respective shackle, are connected at cable thimbles of the lower cable ends. The cable can be prestressed by the shackle arranged at the lower bracket. In an illustrative embodiment, three cables are provided, wherein the middle cable is slightly displaced relative to the outer cables towards the rear in the depth of the shaft and the outer cables are slightly displaced inwardly in the width of the carrier. For larger lift installations, a retaining rail, which is arranged at the guide rail and by means of which the cables are held fast, may be provided for each three to four storys.

Abstract: For fastening a shaft magnet to a guide rail there is provided a holder with clip characteristics, which consists integrally of a foot part, a back part and a front part, at which a recess for reception of the shaft magnet is arranged. The foot part of the holder has a respective reinforcing rib at each side and a first chamfer at the free end. The front part with the recess has a second chamfer. The foot part and the front part in the rest state run slightly towards one another towards their free ends. On pushing of the holder onto the guide rail the foot part and the front part are lightly spread, whereby the holder is firmly clipped to the guide rail by the spring properties of the back part. The shaft magnet can now be placed on the guide rail through the recess. The shaft magnet is fully retained at the guide rail by its magnetic force.

Abstract: An elevator system includes a magnetic guide that dampens vibration of a flat rope that move the car and counterweight up and down in the hoistway. The flat rope is guided through an opening in the magnetic guide between a pair of ferromagnetic flux concentrators having a set of teeth. The flux concentrators concentrate a centralizing magnetic flux that centers the ferromagnetic wires of the rope between each tooth. As the centralizing force acts on each ferromagnetic wire, the flat rope will be magnetically laterally centered within the opening of the magnetic guide and vibration of the flat rope is accordingly dampened. In one example implementation of this invention, the magnetic guide is slideably mounted on a slide assembly in response to rope migration.

Abstract: At a hoistway door on the side of an entrance area there is provided a movable sill that can be moved to uncover an opening that affords access to a machine room lying below the entrance area. The machine room is accessible not only from the access opening, but also from a hoistway pit of the elevator hoistway. When the elevator car is stuck at the lowest floor, emergency operation functions can be carried out through the uncovered access opening. The necessary operating elements of a drive device in the machine room are arranged in such a manner that they can be operated manually through the access opening.

Abstract: A sway reduction device having a cable receiving section, the cable receiving section being formed of a shock-absorbing material and comprising a flexure portion and an aperture for receiving a cable therethrough. The sway reduction device also includes a mounting section with subsections and at least one mounting member for mounting the sway reduction device to a surface. The subsections are moveable generally toward and away from each other whereby the flexure portion is flexed when the subsections are moved away from each other for installing the sway reduction device around a cable.

Abstract: In an elevator apparatus, a control panel is disposed below a lowermost movement position of a proximity switch projecting from a car. The control panel is mounted on a hoistway wall through a mounting bracket at a position which is overlapped by a cross-section of the proximity switch projected in the ascending and descending directions of the car. Namely, the control panel is mounted by utilizing the space below the movement range of the proximity switch. Also, a gap is present between the surface of the hoistway wall and the control panel by the mounting bracket.

Abstract: A flashing “door open” button positioned on an elevator car control panel. The flashing button is connected to a door opener and flashes at predetermined times during the operation of an elevator.

Abstract: An elevator car operating assembly is of a modular construction which allows customization of the assembly for a given installation. An inner frame is provided upon which the car operating controls are mounted. The inner frame is constructed to mount a variety of controls in predetermined positions. The controls are mounted thereon as appropriate for the elevator installation. A circuit board mounts to a rear face of the inner frame, and interfaces with the controls assembled on the inner frame. The circuit board preferably is pre-fabricated to interface with each operating control which can be mounted to the inner frame. An insert is located on a front face of the inner frame. The insert is customized to the installation, and has apertures aligned with the operating controls utilized; the remaining component-mounting apertures on the inner panel are covered by the insert, whereby a finished appearance to the assembly is provided.

Abstract: A maintenance trestle is stowable in folded-together form in the floor of an elevator car and has a platform forming the floor. The platform is steplessly adjustable in height between a stored position and an erected position by lifting equipment operating on the scissors principle. Buttons on a car panel that normally control car operations, such as opening and closing doors, can be converted to controlling the extension and retraction of the platform.

Abstract: A maintenance trestle is stowed in folded-together form below the floor of an elevator car. The maintenance trestle is erected by tilting the floor up towards the car wall about a first fulcrum. The maintenance trestle includes a platform hinged to at least one fastening point on the bottom side of the tilted-up floor and at least one support hinged to the platform at a fulcrum opposite the fastening point and engaging the elevator car. The floor and the support position the platform in an extended position wherein a person standing on the platform can reach through a hatch in the car ceiling to work in the elevator shaft. A stay for stabilizing the maintenance trestle can extend between the fulcrum on the platform and another fulcrum on the car.

Abstract: A system for building shaft casing for dumb-waiters in a building structure with prefabricated assemblies that are readily stackable over each other. One lower, middle and top assemblies constitute the minimum combination typically used in going from one floor to the next. However, the middle and upper assemblies can be repeated depending on the structure where the system is installed. The assemblies include each four elongated corner members with respective ends that receive connecting pin members that permit the structurally stable stacking up of the assemblies. A central and continuous passage is defined. The lower assembly includes two apertures with adjacent compartments within the central passage one to have access to the dumbwaiter and the other one to access the motor and control means. The top assembly has an aperture to provide access to the sprocket mechanism used with the chain that suspends the dumbwaiter within the shaft casing.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for carrying wires along a vehicle-mounted extensible mast. Said apparatus comprises a telescopically extensible mast and a wire carrier box mounted to a vehicle, a masthead platform mounted to an extreme of the mast opposite the vehicle, a bend-reversible wire carrier, and guides attached to the mast. The bend-reversible wire carrier is threaded through the guides. One extreme of the bend-reversible wire carrier is attached to the vehicle, and the opposite extreme is attached to the masthead platform. The bend-reversible wire carrier comprises clockwise bends alternating with counterclockwise bends separated by bend-reversible wire carrier sections. The bend-reversible wire carrier sections, clockwise bends, and counterclockwise bends are sized to fit into the wire carrier box when the mast is retracted.

Abstract: A forklift truck which includes a chassis (10) and a housing (12). Two parallel spaced wheel arms are attached to the chassis. The housing includes a battery-operated driving motor as well as a hydraulic lift. A pole (16) including control means for the control of said motor and said hydraulic lift is connected to a stand (203), the stand being rotatably mounted about a vertical axis and connected to a driving wheel (202). A monomast (20) is arranged centrally between the wheel arms and integral with the housing, the monomast have front and back sides, the back side facing the pole. A carriage (22) for a load fork is attached to the hydraulic lift. A box-shaped cover is attached to the back side of the monomast, and the pole is arranged asymmetrically with respect to the monomast.

Abstract: An elevator for moving passengers from a first, outside level to a second, inside level at a theme park, and for providing themed special effects during the journey is provided. The elevator includes an elevator car divided into a passenger compartment and a special effects equipment compartment. The passenger compartment appears to the unsuspecting passenger to be a conventional elevator. However, at least one partition in the passenger compartment is opaque when the passenger compartment is illuminated and becomes transparent to reveal illuminated special effects when the lighting in the passenger compartment is extinguished. Special effects equipment can include a pair of video projectors for creating a virtual image which appears to be located outside of the elevator car, along with audio speakers for generating appropriate sound to accompany a video sequence for creating an active visual and audio presentation which can be appropriately themed.

Abstract: A hoisting rope for an elevator includes a plurality of longitudinally spaced, discrete targets retained within the rope. The targets have a characteristic that may be monitored by a device that is responsive to that characteristic. In a particular embodiment, the targets are formed from a magnetically permeable material and the monitoring device responds to changes in the magnetic field as the target passes the monitoring device. In another embodiment, the targets are formed from material that reflects electromagnetic energy. In this embodiment, the monitoring device emits electromagnetic energy and is sensitive to the energy that is reflected back from the target. A method to inspect the hoisting ropes includes the steps of positioning the monitoring device proximate to the hoisting rope, moving the hoisting rope relative to the device, and monitoring the targets to determine the spacing between targets. Changes in spacing are indicative of stretching of the rope, and thereby degradation of the rope.

Abstract: A wafer lifter basket assembly includes a wafer lifter basket and a base, the base including a bracket and a bracket holder. The wafer lifter basket is mounted to the bracket, and the bracket holder is releasably connected to the bracket holder via spring-loaded plungers, which release upon the wafer lifter basket encountering a force of at least a predetermined level.

Abstract: Disclosed is an elevator having covers capable of minimizing a generation of turbulent flows at upper and lower portions of the elevator cabin so as to reduce noise and vibration during the operation of the elevator. The elevator according to the present invention comprises upper and lower horizontal supporting members made of shaped steels having a L shape in cross section and plate strips, and covers having a dome and a truncated pyramid shape. In the elevator according to the present invention, the covers can temper impacts, due to air flows in a hoistway, against the elevator cabin during the operation of the elevator. As a result, noise and vibration due to the impacts can be reduced.

Abstract: A drive system for a hydraulic elevator installation (1) without a machine room including an electric motor (15), a hydraulic pump (16), an oil tank (17), valves (18) and a control apparatus (19) mounted in a cabinet (10). The cabinet (10) can be mounted in direct connection with an elevator shaft (2), for example near a shaft door (6), or at any desired location, preferably in the proximity of traffic routes, in work areas or even in passageways, where good accessibility is guaranteed. A double sound insulation of the cabinet (10) and of the oil tank (17) containing the electric motor (15) and the hydraulic pump (16) damps the noise level of the drive system to the extent that the cabinet (10) can be placed at virtually any desired location without the noise developed by the drive system being disturbing in surrounding spaces.

Abstract: An elevator system includes a hoistway defined in a surrounding structure, with a front wall that extends along a length of the hoistway. The front wall includes at least one elevator door frame that accommodates an elevator door, with a landing provided frontwardly of the elevator door frame. A recess defined in the front wall extends a predetermined distance along a length of the hoistway from a first end below the elevator door frame to a second end that opens into the landing. A controller is disposed within the recess to provide easy and safe access to the controller from the landing.

Abstract: A control panel for a lift cage is in the form of a wall element which is engageable with adjacent wall elements to form a continuous, smooth wall surface particularly resistant to vandalism. The control panel has opposed doubly bent edges having slots which engage pins extending outwardly from the edges of the adjacent wall elements. The control panel may be easily installed between the adjacent wall elements by a horizontal insertion followed by a dropping of the control panel into an end position.

Abstract: A hoisting rope includes a plurality of longitudinally spaced, discrete targets retained within the rope. The targets have a characteristic that may be monitored by a device that is responsive to that characteristic. In a particular embodiment, the targets are formed from a magnetically permeable material and the monitoring device responds to changes in the magnetic field as the target passes the monitoring device. In another embodiment, the targets are formed from material that reflects electromagnetic energy. In this embodiment, the monitoring device emits electromagnetic energy and is sensitive to the energy that is reflected back from the target. A method to inspect the hoisting ropes includes the steps of positioning the monitoring device proximate to the hoisting rope, moving the hoisting rope relative to the device, and monitoring the targets to determine the spacing between targets. Changes in spacing are indicative of stretching of the rope, and thereby degradation of the rope.

Abstract: A double deck elevator car comprises a double deck elevator cab 40 having two compartments 41, 42 suspended midway along its vertical length by isolation pads 46 to support frames 47, 48 disposed on stiles 17, 18. Non-contact, stroke limiting cab steadiers 49 are used at the upper end of the double deck cab 40.

Abstract: A tandem sheave assembly for an elevator car includes a hitch plate having an aperture to permit variable positioning of the tandem sheave assembly. A method to install an elevator car includes the steps of: attaching the sheave frame to the car frame via a shaft engaged with the car frame and hitch plate; positioning the sheave frame by rotating the sheave frame about the shaft; and fastening the sheave frame into the desired position by inserting fasteners through the aperture in the hitch plate.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for preventing sway of elevator ropes (7). The apparatus comprises a swing arm (2) positioned within a hoistway (6) of an elevator. The swing arm is movable between a first position and a second position wherein the swing arm is in proximity with the ropes in the first position and the ropes contact the swing arm thereby reducing sway and wherein the swing arm is positioned outside of the path of an elevator car (8) in a second position. An embodiment includes a sheath (21) having tapered ends (22, 23) mounted to the end of the swing arm to facilitate the movement of the swing arm through the plurality of ropes.

Abstract: Push button arrangement for an elevator including a push button (7) with a mounting element (1), a mounting base (10), a cover plate (17) and a circuit card (3). The push button (7) is attached to the mounting element (1) using double-sided tape. The push button (7) is provided with an opening (8) for a call acknowledgement light. The mounting element (1) is fitted by its legs (2) in holes (19) provided in the circuit card (3). The circuit card (3) is provided with membrane switches (4) and attached to the mounting base (10) by gluing so that its lugs engage holes (11) in the mounting base (10). The cover plate (17) covers the push button panel.

Abstract: A protective device for an elevator system extends about a rope and extends upward from an elevator car. The protective device blocks contact with the portion of the rope enclosed by the device. As a result, the risk of damage to the ropes caused by a person, such as a mechanic, who is present on the top of the car, is minimized. The invention is particularly advantageous for synthetic ropes that are subject to damage due to contact with abrasive objects or solvents. In one embodiment, the protective device is a tubular structure formed from a rigid, abrasion resistant material. In other embodiments, the protective device is a sheath formed from an abrasion resistant, woven fiber material that extends about the rope.