Patent ID: 7267200

Claim:
An elevator comprising: an elevator car; car guide rails disposed in a vertical direction of an elevator shaft; counterweight guide rails in the elevator shaft; a counterweight guided by the counterweight guide rails, a plurality of diverting pulleys mounted in an upper part of the shaft; and a drive motor with a traction sheave, the drive motor and traction sheave being in the upper part of the shaft; a rope system; at least one diverting pulley on the elevator car; and at least one diverting pulley on the counterweight, the car guide rails, the plurality of diverting pulleys in the upper part of the shaft and the drive motor and traction sheave being on a same side of the elevator car, both the car and the counterweight have a suspension ratio of 3:1 or greater and the traction sheave having a plane of rotation parallel to at least one of the diverting pulley on the elevator car and the diverting pulley on the counterweight.