Patent ID: 8312972

Claim:
A brake equipment for holding and braking an elevator car in an elevator installation, the brake equipment being movable along a brake track in two directions of travel, the brake equipment comprising: a brake mount having a fixed brake lining fixed on said brake mount and a movable brake lining movable relative to said brake mount, said movable brake lining having a contact surface; a first tightening means connected to said brake mount for moving said brake mount to a stopped state for biasing said brake mount against a brake track and for maintaining said fixed brake lining and said movable brake lining contact surface in contact with a brake surface of the brake track, said contact surface longitudinally extending parallel to a longitudinal direction of the brake surface, the brake surface being common to said fixed brake lining and said movable brake lining; and an actuator configured to move said brake mount between a released state wherein said fixed brake lining and said movable brake lining are removed from contact with the brake surface and said stopped state, whereby when said brake mount is at a standstill position relative to the brake track and in said stopped state, said fixed brake lining applies a holding force to the brake surface, and if said brake mount moves in a first predetermined direction along the brake track from the standstill position, said movable brake fining automatically cooperates with the brake surface to move relative to said brake mount and to apply to the brake surface a braking force greater than the holding force.