Patent ID: 7364019

Claim:
A traction sheave elevator, without the machine room, comprising an elevator car and a counterweight that run on respective guide rails placed in the shaft, the elevator car and the counterweight being suspended on at least one hoisting rope running over at least one diverting pulley driven by a traction sheave wherein the diverting pulleys are located on the car and counterweight side, characterized in having, near to a floor's landing door, a space outside the elevator shaft, projecting towards the landing side and housing, at least partially, comprises a drive machine, and said space being equipped with an inspection door controlling an opening in the sidewall next to said floor's landing door, for the access from the door landing side to said drive machine and to said traction sheave, where the traction sheave is laying, at least partially, on the landing side of the plane of the elevator landing door front, and wherein said space comprising said machine is not part of a front wall pocket designed to contain the landing door when in an open position.