Patent ID: 7631731

Claim:
In the method for measuring the load in a elevator, in which the elevator car is suspended on the hoisting ropes with at least one upward-directed diverting pulley or diverting pulley pair, from which the elevator ropes go upwards on both sides, and at least one downward-directed diverting pulley or diverting pulley pair, from which the elevator ropes go downwards on both sides, and in which elevator at least one upward-directed diverting pulley or diverting pulley pair and at least one downward-directed diverting pulley or diverting pulley pair is fixed to the elevator car with a shared supporting structure, wherein tension-measuring information is measured from the shared supporting structure of said upward-directed diverting pulley or diverting pulley pair and one downward-directed diverting pulley or diverting pulley pair and in that a load-weighing signal is formed using the tension information received.