Patent ID: 7293631

Claim:
A machine room-less elevator comprising: a cage adapted to move vertically in an elevator shaft guided by a pair of right and left guide rails; a traction sheave disposed within a top portion of the elevator shaft and rotationally driven around the rotational axis extending in a back and forth direction; a driving unit for rotating the traction sheave; a cage frame for supporting the cage and having an upper beam horizontally extending in a left and right direction above an upper surface of the cage; a cage-side sheave supporting beam for supporting a pair of right and left cage-side sheaves at both ends thereof, respectively, said cage-side sheave supporting beam being inserted in a space between the upper beam and an upper surface of the cage in a horizontal manner, and connected to a center portion of the upper beam with a center portion thereof; a hoist cable including a plurality of ropes wound around the traction sheave, said hoist cable suspending the cage by one end thereof through the pair of right and left cage-side sheaves and suspending a counterweight by another end thereof, wherein said pair of right and left cage-side sheaves are disposed to rotate around rotational axes thereof extending parallel to or in close proximity with a rotational axis of the traction sheave, respectively.