Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an elevator includes installing a movable supporting platform and an elevator car in the elevator hoistway; taking the elevator car into use to serve passengers and/or to transport goods; removing the elevator car from use; changing the service range of the elevator car to reach higher up in the elevator hoistway by lifting the supporting platform higher up in the elevator hoistway; and taking the elevator car back into use. The elevator is reeved to include construction-time hoisting roping, which includes one or more ropes, the longitudinal power transmission capacity of which is based at least essentially on non-metallic fibers in the longitudinal direction of the rope. In the method, guide rails to be fixed with guide rail brackets can additionally be installed by the aid of an installation device. An elevator arrangement can be used to perform the method.

Abstract: A passenger conveyor comprising an endless conveyor track, a power source configured to supply power to said endless conveyor track, an entrance allowing a passage to the conveyor track, an exit allowing a passage away from the conveyor track, and a balustrade beside the conveyor track. Guide elements are positioned at the entrance/exit on a floor at proximity of an end of the balustrade. The guide elements are laterally elongated, and are configured to guide rolling or moving objects to/from the conveyor without contacting or being obstructed by the balustrade. The guide elements include a source of electromagnetic waves which radiate the electromagnetic waves to an entrance/exit zone of the passenger conveyor.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An elevator system includes an elongated suspension member, a load-receiving part suspended on the suspension member, a counterweight suspended on the suspension member for supporting the load-receiving part, an elongated traction member for exerting a pulling force on the load-receiving part and on the counterweight, a drive unit, with which the load-receiving part is driven by pulling the traction member and also one or more guide rails, along the path of movement determined by which the load-receiving part is moved. The drive unit is disposed to the side of the path of movement of the load-receiving part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a passenger conveyor, comprising an endless conveyor track, a power means for moving said conveyor track, an entrance allowing passage to the conveyor track, an exit allowing passage away from the conveyor track, a balustrade beside the conveyor track, a guide element or guide elements, at the entrance and/or at the exit, on the floor at proximity of the end of the balustrade, forming an elongated lateral guide for an object rolling on the floor to/from the conveyor track, so as to guide the rolling object to/from the conveyor without contacting the balustrade. One or more of said guide elements comprises a source of electromagnetic radiation, which is adapted to output electromagnetic radiation to the entrance/exit zone of the passenger conveyor.

Abstract: Equipment is provided for joining elevator guide rails, for connecting consecutive guide rails of an elevator to each other, which equipment includes a fish plate, which fish plate is an elongated angle plate profile piece including a plurality of plate sections that are beside each other and in the length direction of the fish plate, and longitudinal bends between the plate sections that are beside each other, and which plate section plurality including a planar support plate section, against which support plate section the rear sides of the ends of consecutive guide rails can be supported to lean, and which plate section plurality also includes stiffening plate sections bent away from the plane of the support plate section. A joint arrangement is provided for the guide rails of an elevator and an elevator, in which arrangement and elevator the joining equipment is used.

Abstract: In the method according to the invention in the manufacture of an elevator a partially completed elevator is used during the manufacture of the elevator, which elevator comprises a platform that is in the elevator hoistway during the manufacture of the elevator for supporting the elevator car via hoisting roping, and hoisting roping supported by the aforementioned platform and hanging in the elevator hoistway, in which method a lift is performed, in which the aforementioned platform is lifted to extend the operating area of the elevator car below the aforementioned platform to reach to higher in the elevator hoistway. During the lifting of the hoisting roping, the downward-pulling force exerted on the platform is reduced by transferring a part of the roping supported by the platform to be supported by a bracket that is separate from the platform for at least the duration of the lifting of the platform.

Abstract: In an escalator or travelator configured to travel in two directions and including a step or pallet belt returned in first and second return portions facing away from each other, a monitoring device and method for detecting steps or pallets of the step or pallet belt is provided. The device includes a first detector configured to detect the steps or pallets in one of the directions of travel, a second detector configured to detect the steps or pallets in the other direction of travel, and an electronic analyzer/controller functionally coupled with each of the first and second detectors. The electronic analyzer/controller is configured to receive and compare signals from the first and second detectors for the two directions of travel and derive therefrom a signal for halting the escalator or travelator.