Patent ID: 8109367

Claim:
An elevator without an engine room has an elevator car movable along a car travel path and a counterweight movable along a counterweight travel path arranged near the car travel path, a drive unit provided with at least one drive pulley and arranged below the counterweight disposed in its lowermost position and the drive unit mounted at a bottom of a shaft below the counterweight travel path, at least one elevator support means, which is guided over the drive pulley and at least one deflecting pulley present in a shaft head region, wherein the support means supports the elevator car and the counterweight and moves the elevator car and the counter weight in opposite directions when the support means is driven by the drive pulley of the drive unit, comprising: the counterweight having a cut-out formed therein and extending vertically through the counterweight between a top end and a bottom end of the counterweight; and a pair of runs of the support means, which lead to the drive pulley, extend through said cut-out in the counterweight, each run of said pair of runs entering one of said top end and said bottom end and exiting another one of said top end and said bottom end of the counterweight.