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Elevator system

US7367431B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6References
12Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 20, 2004
Grant dateMay 6, 2008
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Expiry dateMar 8, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB66B11/009
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A wedge-ribbed belt supports an elevator car by underlooping and engages a drive pulley of a drive mounted at the head of an elevator shaft. The belt has a running surface facing the drive pulley with a plurality of ribs and grooves extending in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the belt. The ribs and grooves can be triangular-shaped or trapezium-shaped in cross section. A plane of the drive pulley is arranged vertically and at right angles to a car wall at a counterweight side of the elevator car and approximately in a middle of a car depth with a vertical projection of the drive pulley onto the counterweight side being outside a vertical projection of the counterweight side. A part of a vertical projection of the drive motor is superimposed on the vertical projection of the counterweight side of the elevator car.

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