Abstract: An elevator, which preferably is an elevator without counterweight and in which an elevator car is suspended by means of a set of hoisting ropes comprising one rope or a number of parallel ropes. The elevator has a traction sheave that moves the elevator car by means of the hoisting ropes. The elevator comprises rope portions of hoisting ropes going upwards and downwards from the elevator car, and the elevator has a compensating device acting on the hoisting ropes to equalize and/or compensate rope tension and/or rope elongation. The compensating device acting on the hoisting ropes of the elevator comprises at least one slack rope prevention means for preventing uncontrolled slackening of the hoisting ropes and/or uncontrolled motion of the compensating device.

Abstract: An elevator, preferably an elevator without counterweight, which has an elevator car suspended by means of a set of hoisting ropes comprising one rope or a plurality of parallel ropes. The elevator has a traction sheave that moves the elevator car by means of the hoisting ropes. The elevator contains rope portions of hoisting ropes going upwards and downwards from the elevator car, and it has a compensating device acting on the hoisting ropes to equalize and/or compensate rope tension and/or rope elongation. The compensating device acting on the hoisting ropes of the elevator, said compensating device having at least a first range which is a structural operating range of the compensating device and at least a second range which is a preselected compensation range of the compensating device, is provided with at least one switching element for monitoring whether the compensating device remains within the preselected compensation range.

Abstract: The invention relates to a suspension arrangement for an elevator, which elevator preferably is an elevator without machine room and in which elevator the hoisting machine (4) is connected via a traction sheave (5) to hoisting ropes (3), by means of which the elevator car (1) is moved, and which hoisting machine (4) comprises at least a stator frame (26) secured to a mounting place in the elevator shaft and a traction sheave (5) and a rotor frame (25) forming a fixed assembly, which assembly is mounted with bearings so as to be rotatable with respect to the stator frame, and which hoisting machine (4) is secured to a stiffener (22) bracing the stator frame (26). The stiffener (22) comprises a support for mounting a bearing (23), said support being preferably situated below the traction sheave (5) and extending in a direction towards the hoisting machine, on which support is mounted with a bearing a freely rotating auxiliary diverting pulley (7).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for installing/securing at least one diverting pulley of an elevator or equivalent comprising at least one rope pulley. According to the method, the diverting pulley together with the ropes or in a rigged state is arranged near the elevator or in the elevator shaft and the diverting pulley is placed on a mounting point by using a quick coupling. The invention also relates to an elevator or equivalent comprising at least one rope pulley (5) mounted in place by means of a frame structure (3) and a set of ropes (7, 7a, 7b) consisting of a number of ropes, the passage of which has been arranged using at least one set of diverting pulleys (6) in such manner that the set of diverting pulleys (6) has been arranged to be detachably mounted by means of a quick coupling. In addition, the invention relates to the use of a quick coupling for placing a set of diverting pulleys (6) on a fastening point in an elevator or equivalent.

Abstract: A method for installing the ropes of an elevator in an elevator system comprising the ropes, a diverting pulley and a frame structure for rotatably supporting the diverting pulley in place, the method including the steps of mounting the ropes on the diverting pulley and mounting the diverting pulley together with the ropes in the frame structure or, alternatively, passing the ropes via a guiding device of the frame structure and mounting the diverting pulley and a supporting element in the frame structure.

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: A pallet arrangement for a travelator comprises a pallet body comprising a profiled bar having a predetermined size, at least one surface plate attached to the pallet body and forming a wearing surface, a wheel mounted on at least one end of the pallet body, and a fastening element mounted on at least one end of the pallet body. The fastening element is adapted to couple the pallet to an actuating device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transporting passengers on a travelator, and to a travelator. The comprises: a plurality of successive conveyors arranged to form (a) an acceleration section, which includes successive conveyors having constant speeds stepwise increasing in the transport direction for accelerating a passenger transport speed from a substantially slow initial speed to an increased transport speed, (b) a constant-speed section containing at least one conveyor having a constant passenger transport speed, and (c) a deceleration section containing successive conveyors having constant speeds stepwise decreasing in the transport direction for decelerating the passenger transport speed from the constant transport speed to a decelerated final speed. The speeds of the conveyors in the acceleration section and the deceleration section are adapted so that the average acceleration experienced by the passenger over the entire length of the acceleration and deceleration sections is constant.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjusting the inter-car distance in a double-deck elevator provided with hoisting ropes (2), in which elevator the hoisting ropes (2) move a car frame (3) supporting the elevator cars (6 and 7) along guide rails (5). The vertical inter-car distance between the elevator cars (6 and 7) is adjusted by moving at least one of the elevator cars (6 or 7) in relation to the car frame (3) by pulling the elevator car to be moved upwards and lowering the elevator car to be moved downwards by means of an adjusting rope (13).

Abstract: An arrangement for a people mover located near a floor surface comprises a transport conveyor structure including a conveyor and a handrail having a casing. A drive machine is operatively arranged at least for moving the conveyor and the handrail.

Abstract: An elevator having an elevator car with a car frame on which are mounted a first set of diverting pulleys from which the hoisting ropes go downwards and a second set of diverting pulleys from which the hoisting ropes go upwards. The rope tension in the rope portions going from the diverting pulleys of the first set is smaller than the rope tension in the rope portions going from the diverting pulleys of the second set by a specified ratio. According to the invention, the diverting pulleys of the first set are at a larger average distance from the car frame than the diverting pulleys of the second set. In a possible inventive arrangement, the distance of an up-direction diverting pulley from the car frame is smaller by a specified ratio than the distance a corresponding down-direction diverting pulley.

Abstract: The invention relates to an elevator and a method for adjusting the inter-car distance in an elevator which comprises two or more elevator cars coupled to each other so as to be movable together in an elevator shaft, and in which these elevator cars are at least partly suspended by means of a common set of hoisting ropes (2). The vertical inter-car distance between the elevator cars (6 and 7) is adjusted by moving at least one of the elevator cars (6 or 7) in relation to at least one other elevator car (6 or 7) by pulling the elevator car to be moved upwards and lowering the elevator car to be moved downwards by means of at least one adjusting rope (13).

Abstract: A stator winding assembly for a stator of an elevator machine motor, in which the stator may include a stator frame with a plurality of stator teeth and one or more slots between given stator teeth. The assembly may include a stator winding adapted to be fitted in the slots, and a winding frame configured to support the stator winding. The winding frame may include a frame bottom in contact with one or more side faces of given slots, and may include a plurality of strip-like elements of ferromagnetic material fitted at mouths of the slots for controlling magnetic flux.

Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a stator winding in a stator of an elevator machine motor, where the stator may include a stator frame with a plurality of stator teeth and one or more slots between given stator teeth. The arrangement may include a winding frame configured to support the stator winding so that the winding is fitted in the slots and is adapted to be secured by fastening elements provided in the slots. The winding frame may include a frame bottom in contact with one or more side faces of given slots. The arrangement may include one or more flexible locking elements projecting from the frame bottom and adapted to be fit into holes provided in the slots. The locking elements may be inserted into corresponding holes to lock the winding frame and stator winding to the stator frame, as the winding frame is being pushed into the slots.

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: An elevator, without counterweight and 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, and in which elevator the guide rails are arranged on one side of the elevator car.

Abstract: A stator fastening arrangement for a flat elevator motor may include a stator core, a winding, and a rotor fitted in conjunction with the stator. The stator may be fitted within a mounting part fastened to a motor body. A space provided between the mounting part and the stator may be filled with a thermally conductive filling material for conducting heat away from the stator to the mounting part. The filling material may be provided on one or more axial, outer circumferential surfaces of the stator and in contact with the mounting part so as to fasten the stator to the mounting part.

Abstract: An elevator without counterweight, in which elevator the elevator car is guided by guide rails and suspended by means of diverting pulleys on hoisting ropes so that the elevator has rope portions of the hoisting ropes going upwards and downwards from the elevator car and a number of diverting pulleys in the upper and lower parts of the elevator shaft. The elevator has a drive machine placed in the elevator shaft and provided with a traction sheave. The elevator has a compensating device acting on the hoisting ropes for equalizing and/or compensating the rope tension and/or rope elongation.

Abstract: An elevator built in place of an earlier elevator in an elevator shaft or equivalent. In the elevator, the elevator car is suspendended by means of hoisting ropes consisting of a single rope or several 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 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 the elevator has been built in place of an earlier elevator mounted in the elevator shaft or equivalent or by making modifications in the earlier elevator.

Abstract: The invention also relates to a method for ensuring the internal tightness of an elevator hoisting rope (9) in an elevator provided with hoisting ropes (9). According to the method, each hoisting rope (9) is tightened after installation of the elevator to a desired tightness by twisting the rope by the required number of turns in the twisting direction of the braiding, in such manner that the first end of the rope (9) remains fastened to its anchorage while the second end of the rope is free so as to allow tightening.