Patent ID: 6148962
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
A traction sheave elevator system comprising:an elevator shaft structure having at least one wall;a plurality of guide rails;an elevator car movable along the plurality of elevator guide rails;a counterweight movable along a plurality of counterweight guide rails;a set of hoisting ropes on which the elevator car and counterweight are suspended in the elevator shaft structure;a motor having an axis of rotation oriented in the elevator shaft such that the axis will intersect an adjacent elevator car;a traction sheave driven by the motor on the axis of rotation;the motor being flat in the direction of the drive shaft,the elevator shaft including a shaft wall adjacent the elevator car;the shaft wall having a pair of opposed inner and out surfaces defining a solid finite thickness;a machine space being defined in the shaft wall, the machine space being a hole extending between the pair of opposed surfaces and being delimited in a thickness direction of the shaft wall by the plane of each of the pair of opposed surfaces of the shaft wall, the motor being mounted and contained within the machine space such that the motor does not extend beyond the outer surfaces of the shaft wall.