Patent ID: 7762378
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. A guide apparatus for guiding a compensating means in an elevator installation having an elevator car and a counterweight suspended in a hoistway space by a suspension means running over a sheave arranged in an upper area of the elevator installation, and a compensating means hung at its two respective ends from the elevator car and the counterweight to form a hanging loop, comprising: a compensating-means guide adapted to be positioned in an area of a reversal of the compensating means, wherein said compensating-means guide has a plurality of brushes for contacting and guiding said reversal of said compensating means, said brushes when arranged in the area of reversal of the compensating means limit deflections of the compensating means to at least one of perpendicular to a direction of the reversal of the compensating means, a direction of the reversal of the compensating means, and a vertical direction, wherein said brushes are fastened to a brush carrier which is adapted to be permanently installed in the hoistway space, wherein at least one of said brushes has a brush-body movably mounted to said brush carrier to permit adjustment of a distance from the compensating means, and wherein said brush carrier is formed as a separating wall which in a lowest area of the hoistway space separates a space occupied by the counterweight from the rest of the hoistway space.