Patent ID: 8028393
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: B66B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for installing hoisting roping in an elevator, comprising: placing an elevator car in an elevator shaft with a bottom of the elevator car located above a floor of a building; extending a hoisting rope around a first pulley, through at least one second pulley located at a bottom of the elevator shaft, around a third pulley on the bottom of the elevator car, around at least one fourth pulley located at a bottom of the elevator shaft; attaching the hoisting rope to the elevator car at a first anchor point; raising the elevator car upwardly in the elevator shaft; extending the hoisting rope around a fifth pulley of a hoisting machine at a top of the elevator shaft and around a sixth pulley on top of the elevator car, and around at least one seventh pulley at the top of the elevator shaft; attaching the hoisting rope to the elevator car at a second anchor point; releasing the hoisting rope from the first anchor point; lowering the elevator car in the elevator shaft; releasing the hoisting rope from the second anchor point; and attaching the hoisting rope to the first pulley.