Patent ID: 6595331
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
An elevator system within an elevator hoistway including at least two vertically-spaced structural building members, said system comprisingan elevator car riding along a car guide rail; a counterweight riding along a counterweight guide rail; an elevator rope suspending the elevator car and the counterweight for movement in the hoistway; a first elongated, rigid member separate from the guide rails along which the car and counterweight ride and having a first end and a second end; first rigid member attachment means proximate each of said first and second ends of said first rigid member for attaching said first rigid member to two of said vertically-spaced structural building members, respectively, so that said first rigid member extends across a span between said two vertically-spaced structural members; a second elongated, rigid member separate from the guide rails along which the car and counterweight ride and having a first end and a second end; second rigid member attachment means proximate each of said first and second ends of said second rigid member for attaching said second rigid member to a pair of said vertically-spaced structural building members, respectively, so that said second rigid member extends across a span between said pair of vertically-spaced structural members; and rope hitch attachment means on each of said first and said second rigid members for attaching the ends of said elevator rope to each of said first and said second rigid members, respectively.