Patent ID: 8997942
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: B66B,E04C,E04F

Abstract:
1. A well carcass for an elevator installation, which well carcass may be arranged so as to be free-standing and/or in an elevator well and serves for receiving a travel platform which is moved upward and downward in the well carcass with the aid of carrying means via at least one drive shaft connected to a drive motor and mounted horizontally on the well carcass or in the elevator well, wherein at least one drive shaft extends diagonally and approximately horizontally between a first corner and a second corner diagonally opposite the first corner of the well carcass, and respective ends of the at least one drive shaft being connected indirectly or directly to opposite parts of the well carcass or wall parts of the elevator well and having in a region of each of its respective ends a driving pulley which moves the travel platform upward and downward in each case with the aid of the carrying means, and wherein the first corner and the second corner each comprises a free space framed by a first vertically running side of the well carcass, a second vertically running side of the well carcass, and an upright side element of the travel platform.