Patent ID: 7588126
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. A method for evacuating a building or a part of it by means of an elevator system, in which the elevator system is a system that receives destination calls comprising one or more destination call panels, and in which building one or more exit floors are defined, comprising: activating an evacuation mode as a consequence of an exceptional incident prevailing in a building or an exceptional incident threatening a building; receiving at least one destination call; allocating an evacuation elevator to the issuing floor of the destination call; characterized in that the evacuation mode of the method further comprises: setting a threshold value for the degree of filling of the elevator; filling the evacuation elevator at the call-issuing floor until the threshold value set for the degree of filling of the elevator is reached; changing each destination call received at said issuing floor to a destination floor of one of the escape floors; and directing the evacuation elevator to the escape floor.