Abstract: The invention relates to an elevator roping system in an elevator provided with a hoisting machine (6) and hoisting ropes (12), in which elevator the hoisting ropes (12) move the elevator car (1) along guide rails (2). The hoisting ropes (12) are disposed to pass from the hoisting machine (6) to at least one diverting pulley (18/18a) on the elevator car (1), after passing around which the hoisting ropes (12) are disposed to pass via at least two diverting pulleys (19/19a and 20/20a) in the upper end of the elevator shaft to a second diverting pulley (21/21a) on the elevator car, after passing around which the hoisting ropes (12) are lead to the next destination.

Abstract: A travelator, moving ramp or escalator for transporting passengers comprises a conveyor mounted on a first frame adapted to be supported on a fixed structure The first frame comprises two elongated first frame parts which include guide tracks for guiding the conveyor. The first frame parts comprise profiled metallic bodies of solid material joined together end to end one after the other. The profiled metallic bodies comprise one or more extruded profiles. A handrail comprises a handrail frame and an endless handrail belt mounted on the handrail frame and arranged as a loop having an upper handhold portion that a passenger can grip with a hand for support and a lower return portion disposed inside the first frame. A number of suspenders are fastened to the first frame at a distance from each other to support the return portion of the handrail belt inside the profiled metallic bodies.

Abstract: Elevator, in which the elevator car is suspended by means of hoisting ropes (3) consisting of a single rope or several parallel ropes, said elevator having a traction sheave (5) which moves the elevator car (1) by means of the hoisting ropes (3). The elevator has rope portions of the hoisting ropes going upwards and downwards from the elevator car. The rope portions going upwards from the elevator car are under a first rope tension (T1) and the rope portions going downwards from the elevator car are under a second rope tension (T2). The elevator has a compensating system (16) acting on the hoisting ropes for equalizing and/or compensating the rope tension and/or rope elongation and/or keeping the ratio (T1/T2) between the first rope tension and the second rope tension substantially constant.

Abstract: Elevator without counterweight, in which elevator there is a compensating system separating the roping portion of the hoisting ropes above the elevator car from the roping portion of the hoisting ropes below the elevator car and in which the rope tension is arranged by means of the compensating system to be greater in the portion of roping above the elevator car than in the portion of roping below the elevator car, installed by raising the travel height of the elevator at least once. When raising the travel height, the extension of the hoisting ropes is fed in via the compensating system or via the rope fastening in the compensating system.

Abstract: An elevator, preferably an elevator without machine room, in which the hoisting machine (10) engages the hoisting ropes (3) by means of a traction sheave (11), the elevator car (1) being at least partially supported by the hoisting ropes serving as a means of moving the elevator car (1). The elevator car is suspended on the hoisting ropes (3) by means of at least one diverting pulley (13,14) from whose rim the hoisting ropes go upwards from both sides and at least one diverting pulley (7,5) from whose rim the hoisting ropes go downwards from both sides of the diverting pulley. The traction sheave (11) engages the rope portion between these diverting pulleys (13,5).

Abstract: An elevator in which the elevator car is suspended by means of hoisting ropes consisting of a single rope or several parallel ropes, said elevator having a traction sheave which moves the elevator car by means of the hoisting ropes. The elevator has rope portions of the hoisting ropes going upwards and downwards from the elevator car, and the rope portions going upwards from the elevator car are under a first rope tension (T1) which is greater than a second rope tension (T2), which is the rope tension of the rope portions going downwards from the elevator car, and that the elevator comprises a compensating system for keeping the ratio (T1/T2) between the first and the second rope tensions substantially constant.

Abstract: A people mover, such as a travelator, moving ramp or escalator, comprises a conveyor. The conveyor comprises a frame having a first frame part secured to a fixed structure, and a second frame part mounted to be movable in relation to the first frame part in the longitudinal direction. The first and second frame parts are arranged one after the other. Transport platforms are secured to a first drive element and a second drive element. The drive elements are endless elements. A first tensioning device tensions the first drive element and a second tensioning device tensions the second drive element. Each tensioning device acts between the first frame part and the second frame part. The conveyor additionally comprises mechanical transmission elements between the first and second tensioning devices for keeping the stroke lengths of the first and the second tensioning movements equal.

Abstract: A people mover includes a conveyor and a protective skirting made from an extruded metal profile. The protective skirting is located adjacent to a side of the conveyor, with a narrow gap located between the protective skirting and the side to prevent objects from entering the gap when the conveyor is moving.

Abstract: The conveyor of a travelator comprises a number of shafts and a number of mutually parallel endless belts. The conveyor comprises a number of conveyor modules successively connected to each other with a connecting section between them. The belts in the connecting section are arranged to be loosenable so that at least one shaft over which the belts to be loosened are passed is detachable so as to allow the conveyor modules to be released from each other. To release a conveyor module, at least one shaft on which the belt loops in the connecting section turn over is moved in relation to another shaft to slacken the belt loops. The shaft over which the loosened belt loops are passed is detached and removed from the belt loops. The detached conveyor module is removed for maintenance and/or replaced.

Abstract: A travelator, moving ramp or escalator comprises a power machine and a conveyor having a driven end driven by the power machine and a non-driven end. The conveyor comprises a first and second drive elements which are at a distance from each other and parallel to each other, each being formed as an endless loop. A number of transport platforms are arranged one after the other and secured to the first and second drive elements. At the driven end, the first drive element is passed over a first driving pulley which is rotated by the power machine, and at the non-driven end the first drive element is passed over a first diverting pulley. The second drive element is passed over a second driving pulley at the driven end which is rotated by the power machine, and over a second diverting pulley at the non-driven end. A first synchronizing device is placed at the driven end for mutual synchronization of the first and second driving pulleys.

Abstract: A pallet arrangement for a people mover includes a plurality of pallets arranged one after the other to form a track. Each pallet comprises a pallet body, at least one surfacing element attached to the pallet body and a fastening mechanism to attach the at least one surfacing element to the pallet body. The fastening mechanism comprises at least one coupling element included in each surfacing element of the pallet, a form-locking groove included in the pallet body of the pallet and a locking element performing a locking operation with a locking movement and a releasing operation with a releasing movement. The locking element acts on all the coupling elements in the form-locking groove of the pallet body substantially simultaneously during the locking movement and the releasing movement.

Abstract: An arrangement for coupling a pallet in a conveying device includes a pallet having wheels and forming a part of a transport track of the conveying device, and a drive element. A coupling piece is adapted to be connected to the pallet and a fastening parties connects the drive element to the coupling piece.

Abstract: A travelator, moving ramp or escalator for transporting people, comprises a people mover; a balustrade extending alongside the people mover throughout its length. The balustrade comprises a handrail belt formed as an endless loop and having an upper handhold portion, which the passenger can grasp with a hand for support, a lower return portion, and a turn-around portion between the handhold portion and the return portion. The balustrade frame comprises a turn-around guide at the end of the balustrade to form a turn-around to support and guide the turn-around portion of the handrail belt. The turn-around guide comprises a number of pressure rollers spaced at a distance from each other and arranged in a sequence in the form of a circular arc. In addition, a drive assembly is arranged to move the handrail belt.

Abstract: An elevator, preferably without counterweight, comprising a number of diverting pulleys in the upper part of an elevator shaft or equivalent, a number of diverting pulleys in the lower part of the elevator shaft and a number of diverting pulleys on the elevator car, is installed by a method in which at least some of the diverting pulleys are pre-rigged. The rigged diverting pulleys are brought into the elevator shaft together with the car, and the hoisting ropes are stretched to their proper length when the diverting pulleys in the upper and lower parts of the shaft are mounted in place.

Abstract: 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 guide rails are fixed in place by means of guide fixing brackets (112). The width of the guide fixing bracket (112) in the vicinity of the car guide rails (1) is substantially equal to the width of the car guide rail plus the thickness of the rail clips in the guide fixing bracket.

Abstract: A pallet arrangement for a people mover includes a pallet adapted to move on wheels and form part of a moving track. The pallet includes a pallet body having at least two profile sections joined together. A wear surface is coupled to the pallet body and the two profile sections have a form-lock coupling.

Abstract: An elevator and a method, said elevator being preferably an elevator without machine room, and wherein the elevator car is supported by a set of hoisting ropes comprising one rope or a number of parallel ropes. The elevator has a traction sheave which moves the elevator car by means of the hoisting ropes. The elevator has rope portions of hoisting ropes going upwards and downwards from the elevator car, and the rope portions going from the traction sheave in the direction of the rope portion above the elevator car are under a first rope tension (T1) and the rope portions going from the traction sheave in the direction of the rope portion below the elevator car are under a second rope tension (T2). In addition, the elevator has a compensating device acting on the hoisting ropes to equalize and/or compensate the rope tension and/or rope elongation and/or to render the ratio of the first and the second rope tensions (T1/T2) substantially constant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of changing the direction of motion of a pallet at an end of a transport conveyor while maintaining the pallet at a substantially constant attitude. The method comprises conveying pallets in a passenger transport direction and at a first level, conveying pallets in a return direction and at a second, different level, positively guiding a trailing end of a first pallet with respect to its direction of motion with a supporting element, and rotating the supporting element with a second pallet located immediately behind the first pallet with respect to the direction of motion, thereby moving the trailing end of the first pallet from one of the first level and the second level to the other of the first level and the second level and changing the direction of motion of the first pallet.

Abstract: An elevator, preferably without counterweight, comprising a number of diverting pulleys in the upper part of the elevator shaft or equivalent, a number of diverting pulleys in the lower part of the elevator shaft and a number of diverting pulleys on the elevator car. The rope portions between the upwards-directed diverting pulleys on the elevator car and the diverting pulleys in the upper part of the elevator shaft are rigged when the car is in the upper part of the shaft, and the diverting pulleys between the downwards-directed diverting pulleys on the elevator car and the diverting pulleys in the lower part of the elevator shaft are rigged when the car is in the lower part of the shaft.

Abstract: An elevator, preferably an elevator with-out counterweight, comprising a number of diverting pulleys in the upper part of an elevator shaft or equivalent, a number of diverting pulleys in the lower part of the elevator shaft and a number of diverting pulleys on an elevator car, is installed in such manner that at least some of the diverting pulleys for the upper part are rigged in the lower part of the elevator shaft and at least some of the diverting pulleys from which the passage of the ropes is directed upwards are rigged at the same time. The diverting pulleys for the upper part thus rigged are raised in the rigged state to the upper part of the elevator shaft or equivalent and mounted in place.