Patent ID: 7624848

Claim:
Equipment for mounting an elevator drive, which drive can be mounted by a hoist closely below a shaft ceiling, comprising: a mounting tool for supporting the elevator drive and being mounted on a top of an elevator car movable in an elevator shaft with the elevator car being raisable and lowerable by a hoist in the shaft, said mounting tool including a pivot column, the pivot column being pivotally mounted at a lower end of the pivot column to a top of the elevator car for pivoting to and from a vertical position, the pivot column having a load carrier attached at an upper end of the pivot column for carrying the elevator drive on said upper end, the load carrier including a platform on which the elevator drive can sit atop said upper end of said pivot column, whereby when the elevator car is adjacent a motor bracket in the elevator shaft and said mounting tool is pivoted to the vertical position, the load carrier is positioned over the motor bracket.