Abstract: Arrangement and method for the construction-time use of an elevator, which arrangement comprises an elevator car (2), hoisting roping (4), a hoisting machine fitted to move the elevator car via the hoisting roping (4), which hoisting machine is preferably disposed on the machine room level (22) at the top end of the elevator hoistway, a counterweight (56), and which elevator comprises compensating roping (10), which compensating roping is connected to the supply storage (16) of the compensating roping. In the arrangement, the compensating roping (10) is connected to the elevator car via a diverting pulley (28) on the elevator car and to the counterweight (56) via a diverting pulley (58) on the counterweight (56). In the method one or more jumps of the machine room level are performed, and the additional rope needed for a jump of the machine room level is taken from the supply storage of the compensating roping.

Abstract: An elevator belt comprising a belt body made of a first material, a reinforcement arrangement having at least one reinforcement provided on the belt body, and a tube arrangement made of a second material having at least one tube, the at least one reinforcement of the reinforcement arrangement being provided in a tube of the tube arrangement.

Abstract: A screw elevator comprises a pair of counterweight guide rails, a pair of deflection wheels, a counterweight frame, a screw, a power unit, a cable, a car and a car guide rail. The power unit, the screw and the counterweight frame are all disposed between the pair of counterweight guide rails. The power unit drives the screw and the counterweight frame to move, and then the movement of the screw will drive the cable to make the car move upwards and downwards along the car guide rail. The cable has one end fixed at a position above the counterweight rails and the other end of the cable is finally fixed at the center of the top of the car after being wound around a traction wheel and straddled over the deflection wheels.

Abstract: An elevator without counterweight may Include an elevator car suspended by a hoisting rope, a traction sheave operatively connected to the elevator car by the hoisting rope, and a brake structure configured to engage with the traction sheave in a braking operation in an upward motion and a downward motion of the elevator car. The brake structure may include first and second brake elements. The first brake element may include a surface engageable with the traction sheave, and first contact and sliding surfaces. The second brake element may include second contact and sliding surfaces. The first sliding surface may slide along the second sliding surface relative to the second brake element when the elevator car moves with the upward motion. The second contact surface may contact the first contact surface to stop a sliding motion of the first brake element when the elevator car moves with the downward motion.

Abstract: In an elevator device, movement of a car is braked by a brake device in a state in which driving of a hoist is stopped. While the drive of the hoist is stopped, braking force of the brake device is controlled by a brake control device based on a signal from a movement detector that generates a signal corresponding to movement of the car. The brake control device generates a target pattern for at least one of speed and acceleration of the car and controls braking force of the brake device such that the movement of the car follows the target pattern.

Abstract: Provided is an elevator apparatus including a first electromagnetic switch and a second electromagnetic switch provided between a first electromagnetic coil and a second electromagnetic coil of a first brake device and a second brake device and a power source. The brake control section includes: a first electromagnetic coil control switch provided between the first electromagnetic coil and a ground section; a second electromagnetic coil control switch provided between the second electromagnetic coil and the ground section; a first processing section for opening and closing the first electromagnetic switch and the first electromagnetic coil control switch in response to a braking operation command issued from an operation control section; and a second processing section for opening and closing the second electromagnetic switch and the second electromagnetic coil control switch in response to the braking operation command.

Abstract: An elevator system includes a car (2) and a counterweight (4) configured to travel along guide rail units (6; 8) and a machine (12) being positioned above the car (2) and configured to drive a tension member (10). In addition, the machine (12) is mounted on an overhead structure (20) and the overhead structure (20) is supported only by the guide rail units (6; 8). This mounting arrangement avoids contact between the overhead structure and the elevator hoistway in the building, and isolates transfer of vibration and noise and improves the load bearing conditions of the walls of the building.

Abstract: An elevator installation includes a drive unit moving a car and a counterweight in an elevator shaft. The drive unit has a drive motor and a brake coupled to a drive shaft and mounted on a crossbeam in the elevator shaft or on the shaft ceiling. The drive unit has two spaced-apart drive zones and the drive motor is arranged to the left or the right of the two drive zones with the brake on the same side or the opposite side of the drive zones.

Abstract: An elevator belt for an elevator installation includes a belt body in which a tensile carrier arrangement with several tensile carriers for transmission of a tension force in a longitudinal direction of the elevator belt is arranged. A profile body which spaces these tensile carriers from one another is arranged between adjacent tensile carriers of the tensile carrier arrangement.

Abstract: A mounting tool arranged at an elevator car raisable and lowerable along guide rails by a hoist in an elevator shaft. The hoist is suspended at a load hook of a shaft ceiling, wherein a support cable is connected with a load eye of a car yoke. The mounting tool includes a pivot support pivotally arranged at an axle of a tool foot supported by the car yoke. A load carrier carrying an elevator drive is provided at a free end of the pivot support. An assembly operative standing on the car yoke operates the hoist and the mounting tool.

Abstract: An elevator system includes at least one drive with at least one drive pulley, an elevator car and at least one counterweight as well as flat-belt-like support for the car and the counterweight. The elevator car and the counterweight have at least one support roller. The flat-belt-like support means together with the drive pulley and the support rollers form at least one 2:1 suspension system for the car and the counterweight. The flat-belt-like support can be a wedge-ribbed belt or a cogged belt.

Abstract: A modular drive for an elevator installation with a car and a counterweight includes a drive pulley driven by a motor and a self-supporting deflecting module with a deflecting roller, wherein the motor and the drive pulley are combined to form a self-supporting drive module. Interfaces for attachment of connecting parts are provided at the drive module or the deflecting module.

Abstract: A method of operating an elevator system with a drum for taking up a suspension device, a drive unit for driving the drum, and a control unit for controlling the drive unit, includes operating the control unit of the drive unit to prescribe a rotational speed that depends on a length of the suspension device that is rolled onto the drum. Also included is an elevator system in which the method can be used.

Abstract: According to an emergency brake device for an elevator, a brake body is capable of coming into and out of contact with an outer periphery of a sheave which is rotatable, and is capable of being displaced to a rotation direction of the sheave while maintaining a contact with the outer periphery of the sheave. Further, the brake body is arranged between the sheave and a gripper metal. The gripper metal includes an inclined portion which is caused to incline with respect to the outer periphery of the sheave. When the brake body is displaced in the rotation direction of the sheave, the brake body is meshed between the outer periphery of the sheave and the inclined portion. To the brake body, a connecting portion capable of being displaced with respect to the sheave is connected. The connecting body is displaced in a direction in which the brake body comes into and out of contact with the outer periphery of the sheave by a brake drive device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for stopping an elevator car in an emergency braking situation, the elevator according to said arrangement comprising at least a hoisting machine (5) which has a traction sheave (6) fitted on its axle (10) and a brake (19) for braking the rotary motion of the axle (10), and an elevator car (1) suspended on a set of hoisting ropes (3) and adapted to be moved in a substantially vertical direction along guide rails (4) by means of the traction sheave (6) and the hoisting ropes (3). The traction sheave (6) is adapted to be rotated via a one-way clutch (26) or a corresponding element.

Abstract: Versions of an elevator system are shown having a drive system including a driven sheave and a non-driven sheave. The driven sheave is configured to move an elevator car in a generally upward and downward direction. The non-driven sheave is configured to support the elevator car in the event of a loss of traction. The driven sheave is fixedly coupled to a drive shaft of the motor and the non-driven sheave is supported by the drive shaft but is freely rotatable relative to the drive shaft.

Abstract: An elevator is provided 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. In various embodiments, at least some of the diverting pulleys are pre-rigged and 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. In various embodiments, the elevator may be an elevator without counterweight.

Abstract: An elevator in which a driving apparatus, a traction sheave, and a counterweight-side rope hitching portion are arranged above one rail of the right and left cage-side guide rails, while a cage-side rope hitching portion and a speed governor are arranged above the other rail of the right and left cage-side guide rails. Since a control panel is arranged along a rear inner wall surface of the machine room, a large operation space can be secured in a center part of the floor of the machine room. Further, since a machine beam can be extended at full length in the back and forth direction in the machine room, no additional building-side receiving beam is needed.

Abstract: An elevator installation is provided that includes an elevator cage, a drive pulley, at least one support means formed as a flat belt, and a drive engine which drives the at least one support means, which carries the elevator cage, by way of the drive pulley. In the elevator installation, the support means has, at least on a running surface facing the drive pulley, several ribs of wedge-shaped or trapezium-shaped cross-section which extend parallel in a longitudinal direction of the support means and further has several tensile carriers oriented in the longitudinal direction of the support means. The tensile carriers are sized so that a total cross-sectional area of all the tensile carriers amounts to 30%-40% of a cross-sectional area of the support means. The tensile carriers may be distributed in a transverse direction of the support means so that exactly two tensile carriers are associated with each of the ribs, the tensile carriers having an outer diameter equal to 35%-40% of a rib spacing (T).

Abstract: In an elevator apparatus, a brake control device has a first brake control portion, a second brake control portion, and a third brake control portion. The first brake control portion operates a hoisting machine brake to stop a ascending/descending body as an emergency measure when an abnormality is detected. The second brake control portion reduces a braking force of the hoisting machine brake when a deceleration of the ascending/descending body becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined value during an emergency braking operation of the hoisting machine brake. The third brake control portion monitors a slip speed of a main rope with respect to a drive sheave during emergency braking operation of the hoisting machine brake, and reduces a braking force of the hoisting machine brake when the slip speed of the main rope becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A drive unit has at least one motor, a motor stand, a bearing block, a drive pulley and a counter-roller attachment. The drive pulley is mounted at the motor stand and at the bearing block by a shaft. A respective brake is arranged at the bearing block at each side. Webs connect the motor stand with the bearing block. The motor stand, the bearing block and the webs form a stable structure without an engine frame carrying the motor stand and the bearing block being necessary. A counter-roller attachment consisting of side plates and a counter-roller is arranged directly at the motor stand and the bearing block.

Abstract: An elevator system (20) includes multiple elevator cars (22, 32) within a hoistway (26). Counterweights (24, 34) are associated with the respective elevator cars (22, 32) by load bearing members (40, 50). In some examples, different roping ratios are used for the load bearing members (40, 50). In some examples, the lengths of the load bearing members (40, 50) are selected to allow contact between the counterweights (24, 34) within the hoistway (26) and prevent contact between the elevator cars (22, 32). The difference in car and counterweight separation distances is greater than a stroke of a counterweight buffer plus an expected dynamic jump of the elevator cars. A disclosed example includes passages (80) through a portion of at least one of the elevator cars (22) for accommodating the load bearing member (50) of another elevator car (32) located beneath the elevator car (22) with the passages (80).

Abstract: A tension member for an elevator system has an aspect ratio of greater than one, where aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of tension member width w to thickness t (w/t). The increase in aspect ratio results in a reduction in the maximum rope pressure and an increased flexibility as compared to conventional elevator ropes. As a result, smaller sheaves may be used with this type of tension member. In a particular embodiment, the tension member includes a plurality of individual load carrying cords encased within a common layer of coating. The coating layer separates the individual cords and defines an engagement surface for engaging a traction sheave.

Abstract: The invention relates to an Elevator car (3) guiding device for an elevator without a machine room and with a drive motor (5) mounted on a top side wall of the shaft, wherein the elevator car (3) is guided by means of opposed top and bottom guide elements (9) integral therewith and sliding or rolling on car guide rails (11), characterized in that at least the top car guide element (9) standing in the vertical projection of the drive motor (5) or of the bracket thereof is attached to the car (3) at a lower height than the opposite guide element (9), so as to enable the translation of the car (3) in the shaft (7) at a higher height where the upper part (29) of the car can stand opposite the drive motor (5) or the bracket thereof.

Abstract: An elevator system may include a motor having a common shaft which is suitable to engage any one of a plurality of interchangeable drive component assemblies, and a drive component assembly selected from the plurality of different interchangeable drive assemblies and engaged to the common shaft. The plurality of interchangeable drive component assemblies can be a sheave assembly or a sprocket assembly. The motor can be a direct drive motor, e.g., a permanent magnet (PM) brushless motor or a synchronous motor. The plurality of interchangeable drive component assemblies may also include one or more components which are interchangeable between the assemblies, e.g., a manual lowering device (MLD) or a spacer or a hub. The plurality of interchangeable drive component assemblies may each be assembled from a set of pre-configured assembly components configured for use with the common shaft.

Abstract: The present invention provides a machineroomless elevator system 100 including an elevator hoist 25 that can be rationally disposed in a limited space in a top part of an elevator shaft 2. In the machineroomless elevator system 100, the elevator hoist 25 is disposed such that a first end thereof provided with a main sheave 26 is above a counterweight 22, and a second end 25a thereof opposite the first end is above the rear end 20c of a cage 20 as viewed from above the elevator shaft 2. Therefore, the degree of freedom of disposing the elevator hoist 25 can be increased, and devices mounted on the top wall of the cage 20 can be easily arranged so that the devices may not interfere with the elevator hoist 25.

Abstract: A traction drive elevator, comprising: an elevator car, a pair of guide rails, a counterweight, a traction drive motor comprising a housing, a stator, a rotor and a traction sheave; wherein the guide rails are disposed in a hoistway; both ends of the housing are symmetrically fixed to a side wall of the hoistway; the housing operates as a bearing beam; and the elevator car and the counterweight are suspended on the traction sheave of the traction drive motor via a plurality of wire ropes. Since the traction drive motor occupies no additional vertical space in the hoistway, space utilization ratio of the vertical space in the hoistway is increased, the height of the top floor is decreased, and building materials are saved.

Abstract: Provided is an elevator car frame, comprising: an elevator cage, a main elevator car frame comprising a pair of main columns, an upper main beam and a lower main beam, and a pair of diversion sheaves; wherein the main columns are disposed on both sides of the elevator cage; the upper main beam is disposed above the elevator cage; the lower main beam is disposed below the elevator cage; the diversion sheaves are disposed on one side of the upper main beam; and a line connecting centers of the diversion sheaves is parallel to the upper main beam. The invention features increased working space, reduced height of the elevator car roof, and lower cost.

Abstract: An elevator having an inner car suspended within an outer car, and which does not require the provision of mechanical room. A drive motor can be provided in one of rear side top, underside, and either side of the car. The invention has the following advantages. The vibration of inner car is reduced within an acceptable level for bringing a degree of comfort to passengers in the inner car while hoisting or lowering. The hoist ropes are prevented from slipping when a load of the car changes suddenly as in a case that many persons steps in or out of the car in a short period of time. An alignment of a bottom of the car with each of a plurality of levels is made possible when the elevator is stopped at each level. A manual escape device is provided for assisting passengers to escape in case of emergency.

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: 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 has deflecting rollers integrated in the car floor. The supporting and driving means is guided in the car floor through a floor channel. A cover serving as protection covers the supporting and driving means running in and running out at the deflecting roller. The hood-shaped cover can be snapped onto the axle of the deflecting roller.

Abstract: In the elevator of the invention, the hoisting rope is roped to meet the traction sheave in two different rope grooves, which have differ from each other in respect of their holding properties. In the traction sheave of the invention, at least two adjacent rope grooves have cross-sectional shapes differing from each other.

Abstract: An elevator hoisting rope set (3) suspends a counterweight (2) and an elevator car (1). The elevator has one or more rope pulleys provided with rope grooves, one of said rope pulleys being a traction sheave (7) that moves the hoisting ropes (3). At least the traction sheave (7) has against the hoisting rope (3) a coating adhesively attached to it and increasing the coefficient of friction. At least the traction sheave (7) and the hoisting ropes (3) together form a material pair in which the hoisting ropes (3) bite into the traction sheave (7), maintaining a grip sufficient for the operation of the elevator even in an exceptional situation where the coating (102) increasing the coefficient of friction on the surface of the traction sheave (7) is lost.

Abstract: Method for making an elevator, wherein the roping is selected according to the weight of the elevator car using the same drive machine, traction sheave and rope sheave regardless of the roping. For heavy elevators, Single Wrap roping is used, wherein the hoisting ropes are passed around the traction sheave and the rope sheave guides the ropes and dampens their vibrations, while for light elevators Double Wrap roping is used.

Abstract: A drive arrangement for an elevator car and a machine roomless elevator incorporates a machine (26) having a drive sheave (27) extending along an axis parallel to the axes of the deflection sheaves (23, 25) associated with both the counter-weight (24) and the elevator car (22). In this manner, the twisting which has occurred in the prior art is reduced or eliminated. The machine is mounted on a bedplate (18) between the guide rails. The elevator car is preferably cantilever mounted, and mounted on laterally outer surfaces of said guide rails. In this manner, the elevator car can travel vertically upwardly beyond the machine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and system for underground transport of ore, material and people, which includes electrical and mechanical drive systems, a plurality of hoisting devices, head ropes and balance ropes. The mass per meter of the balance ropes is significantly smaller than the mass per meter of the head ropes.

Abstract: An emergency brake device for an elevator includes a brake shoe portion provided inside a sheave 1 or deflector sheave of an elevator and having a brake shoe 5a at a lower end of the brake shoe portion, the brake shoe generating a braking force due to friction upon abutting an inner wall of an outer peripheral frame of the sheave or deflector sheave at a time of braking, the brake shoe portion having built therein spring mechanisms 51, 52 provided between the brake shoe and king pins 5f1, 5f2, which are offset in a rotation direction of the sheave or deflector sheave with respect to a centerline passing through a rotation shaft of the sheave or deflector sheave and are fixed on a bearing 1b side of the rotation shaft, the spring mechanisms each absorbing a force generated between the brake shoe and the king pin due to the braking force and being connected to the king pin at one end.

Abstract: An elevator hoist apparatus includes a stationary frame member, a main shaft, a stationary element disposed to said stationary frame member, a rotary frame member supported on said main shaft and extending in a radial direction in axial opposition to said stationary frame member, a rotary element disposed to said rotary frame member in opposition to said stationary member, a brake unit including a brake portion extending through an opening in said stationary frame member, and a rope sheave disposed to said rotary frame member for rotation therewith. The brake unit includes a brake portion disposed in a hollow portion of the stationary frame member of the stationary member and extending through the opening portion and disposed to the inner circumference of the stationary frame member or the rotary frame member. The magnetic path for the brake unit extends through one portion of the rotary frame member or the stationary frame member. Small-size and high performance are realized.

Abstract: A synthetic fiber rope can be used to the limit of failure by setting a sensitivity of detection of the state of wear of the rope. Strands of the rope have indicator fibers or indicator yarn that have a high probability of losing electrical conductivity and thereby indicate cable wear. The matrix of the strand with indicator fibers or with at least one indicator yarn has a lower resistance to abrasion than the matrix of the other strands without indicator fibers or indicator yarns.

Abstract: A load equalizing rope termination serves to prevent a load imbalance between a pair of rope leads of a rope termination. The rope termination includes an end section such as an end loop and the pair of rope leads attached to a pair of rope ends. A rope termination fitting includes a base support member over which the end section is supported, and a pair of load equalizing support members disposed upstream of the base support member and over which the rope ends are supported. The engagement between the rope ends and the equalizing support members prevents a load imbalance of the rope leads.

Abstract: An elevator including a car placed in an elevator shaft so as to move vertically along a pair of car guide rails, and a counterweight placed in the elevator shaft so as to move vertically along a pair of counterweight guide rails. A rope connects the car and the counterweight. A hoisting machine drives the rope. The hoisting machine is mounted on a base attached to the upper ends of the counterweight guide rails and the upper end of one of the pair of car guide rails.

Abstract: An elevator system includes guide rail mounted machine (16) and a sheave assembly (32) that accommodates a guide rail (38) within a hoistway. The inventive sheave assembly includes individual sheave portions (54) rotatable along a common axis. At least two of the sheave portions are spaced apart along a shaft (50) and a portion of the guide rail extends toward the axis beyond a plane formed tangent to the outside diameter of the sheave portions.

Abstract: A wedge-ribbed belt supports an elevator car in a cantilevered mode and engages a drive pulley of a drive mounted at the head of an elevator shaft. The belt has a running surface facing the drive pulley with a plurality of ribs and grooves extending in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the belt. The ribs and grooves can be triangular-shaped or trapezium-shaped in cross section. A plane of the drive pulley is arranged vertically and at right angles to a car wall at a counterweight side of the elevator car.

Abstract: A wedge-ribbed belt supports an elevator car by underlooping and engages a drive pulley of a drive mounted at the head of an elevator shaft. The belt has a running surface facing the drive pulley with a plurality of ribs and grooves extending in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the belt. The ribs and grooves can be triangular-shaped or trapezium-shaped in cross section. A plane of the drive pulley is arranged vertically and at right angles to a car wall at a counterweight side of the elevator car and approximately in a middle of a car depth with a vertical projection of the drive pulley onto the counterweight side being outside a vertical projection of the counterweight side. A part of a vertical projection of the drive motor is superimposed on the vertical projection of the counterweight side of the elevator car.

Abstract: The present invention is about a traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, comprising an elevator car that runs on guide rails placed in the shaft and connected to at least one hoisting rope un-coiling on a diverting pulley driven by a traction sheave. The invention's characteristic consists in comprising a space, outside the elevator shaft, which houses, at least partially, the traction sheave and is equipped with an opening near a floor's door for the access to the drive machine and to the traction sheave, from outside the shaft. The invention also provides for arranging the two diverting pulleys on the counterweight and on the elevator car in a way that one or the other can be tilted with respect to the vertical or arranging them on the same axis and on the same body of the pulley with the grooves of the alternating hoisting ropes.

Abstract: A elevator hoisting machine is provided with a stator mounting portion at which a stator core of a motor is mounted to a surface of a side opposite to a sheave in a sheave rotation centerline direction of the hoisting machine. A hat shape fixed frame member in which the stator mounting portion and a fixed main shaft that supports rotation of a rotor through a bearing are integrated. The elevator hoisting machine is characterized in that a brake device in which an inner radial surface of a cylindrical rotor mounting portion forms a braking surface. A motor is characterized in that the width of a magnet constituting a rotor is larger than the width of the stator core. The elevator hoisting machine is provided with the motor.

Abstract: In an elevator apparatus, a first driving machine having a first drive sheave and a second driving machine having a second drive sheave are disposed in an upper portion of a hoistway. A car and first and second counterweights are suspended inside the hoistway by a main rope body wound around the first and second drive sheaves. The car and the first and second counterweights are raised and lowered inside the hoistway by a driving force from the first and second driving machines.

Abstract: A safety guard apparatus for an elevator machine having a brake and a sheave for engaging one or more hoist ropes rotatably driven by the elevator machine, the safety guard apparatus consisting of a sheave guard including a front sheave wall, a back sheave wall and a pair of oppositely disposed side sheave walls defining a generally rectangular structure adapted for substantially enclosing the sheave of the elevator machine, and a cover guard releasably secured to the sheave guard and including a front cover wall, a back cover wall and a top cover wall through which the one or more hoist ropes and the sheave can be viewed. The safety guard apparatus further including a hoist rope guard releaseably secured to at least one of the pair of oppositely disposed side sheave walls of the sheave guard, wherein the hoist rope guard including a lower portion pivotally coupled to a upper portion for substantially enclosing the one or more hoist ropes extending from the sheave.

Abstract: An elevator system includes a hoistway having a plurality of hoistway doors. An elevator car and counterweight are provided in the hoistway. A drive motor is drivingly coupled to the elevator car and counterweight, and is located adjacent to either the top or bottom portion of a hoistway door so as to eliminate the need to provide a machine room above the hoistway ceiling.