Sheave for elevator

• US 20060070822A1
• Filed: 09/12/2005
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Osada, Akira, Hiruma, Noboru
• Application Number:
  US11/222,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20060070822A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/350
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 15/04 Friction sheaves; "Koepe" pulleys

Abstract

Coating layers of low-friction coating materials helping a rotating action generated on ropes are provided on surfaces of grooves formed on an outer peripheral surface of a base of a sheave. Thus, difference in tension between the ropes can be solved, generation of twist on the ropes can be prevented, and deterioration of portions of the ropes which are in contact with the sheave can be prevented to extend the lifetime of the ropes.

Claims

1. A sheave for elevator, capable of moving up and down a car and a counter weight by a rope wound round a main sheave connected to a traction machine provided in a hoistway, the sheave comprising:

a groove in which the rope is fitted at an outer peripheral surface of a base; and

a coating layer of a low-friction coating material, which is provided on surfaces of the groove and which helps a rotating action generated on the rope.

2. The sheave for elevator according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of grooves whose number corresponds to number of a plurality of ropes are formed on the outer peripheral surface of the base, and a plurality of coating layers of the low-friction coating material are provided on the surfaces of the plurality of grooves.

3. The sheave for elevator according to claim 1, wherein the low-friction coating material is fluorocarbon resin.

4. The sheave for elevator according to claim 1, wherein fluorocarbon resin is used as a base material of the low-friction coating material, and one of glass fiber, glass fiber and graphite, and glass fiber and molybdenum disulfide is added to the fluorocarbon resin base material as filler.

5. The sheave for elevator according to claim 1, wherein the low-friction coating material is polyethylene.

6. A sheave for elevator, capable of moving up and down a car and a counter weight by ropes wound round a main sheave connected to a traction machine provided in a hoistway, the sheave comprising:

a plurality of rope-corresponding sheaves configured to have grooves in which the respective ropes are fitted, with one-to-one relationship with the respective ropes, the plurality of rope-corresponding sheaves being arranged side by side to rotate independently of each other, on a shaft attached to any one of the car and the counter weight.