Patent ID: 9533860
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B66B,Y10T

Claim:
1. An elevator arrangement comprising: a first movable elevator unit; and a second movable elevator unit, the first movable elevator unit being an elevator car and the second movable elevator unit being a counterweight or vice versa; and a roping system, the roping system comprising: wherein the first roping portion and second roping portion are successive portions of a roping passing unbroken via a locking arrangement provided at the second elevator unit the locking arrangement locking the roping to the second elevator unit between the first and the second roping portions, wherein the second roping portion is suspended by the first elevator unit via a diverter unit comprising one or more first diverter unit rope wheels around and over which the second roping portion passes, the diverter unit being movably suspended by the first elevator unit, a position of the diverter unit along the roping system being adjustable, and wherein the diverter unit is further suspended by a third roping portion to a rope supply storage, the third roping portion hanging between a bottom of the first movable elevator unit and the rope supply storage arranged above the first movable elevator unit.