Passenger transfer, double deck, multi-elevator shuttle system

US5663539A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Bruce A. Powell · Canton, US
• Richard C. McCarthy · Simsbury, US
• Joseph Bittar · Avon, US
• Frederick H. Barker · Bristol, US
• Samuel C. Wan · Simsbury, US
• Paul Bennett · Waterbury, US
• Anthony Cooney · Unionville, US
• John K. Salmon · Mendham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 29, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 2, 1997
• Expiry date: Nov 29, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S187/902
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Double deck elevator cars (10-12) are moveable in corresponding adjacent overlapping hoistways (7-9). Passengers entering the bottom deck (39) from a ground landing are transferred into the bottom deck (47) of a second elevator as passengers in the upper deck (46) of the second elevator are transferred to the upper deck (38) of the first elevator. Passengers in the lower deck (31) of a third elevator (10) are transferred to a lower landing (33) as passengers in an upper landing (32) enter an upper deck (30) of the third elevator. Passengers are thereafter transferred in the same fashion between the second elevator and the third elevator at a second transfer level (49).