Elevator machine

• US 5,010,981 A
• Filed: 07/07/1989
• Issued: 04/30/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: KONE Elevator GmbH
• Original Assignee: KONE Elevator GmbH
• Inventors: Heikkinen, Urho J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Olszewski, Robert P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Noland, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US07/376,478
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• Field of Search: 187/20, 187/22, 254/342, 254/295, 475/323, 475/325
• US Class Current: 254/342
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 11/0461 with rack and pinion gear

Abstract

In an elevator machine consisting of a drive motor, a drive shaft driven by the motor, a traction sheave transmitting the motion to the elevator car by means of ropes and a gear assembly to reduce the rotational speed of the motor for the traction sheave, the gear assembly is located inside the traction sheave, the drive shaft passes through the traction sheave, the drive motor is coupled to one end of the drive shaft and the brake is mounted on the other end on the opposite side of the traction sheave.

Claims

1. An elevator machine comprising:

a drive motor;

a drive shaft driven by said motor, said driveshaft being provided with gear teeth which are purposed to mesh with one or more intermediate gears;

said driveshaft being rotatably mounted in bearings located inside a fixed supporting axle;

said fixed supporting axle comprising one or more tubular parts and one or more flanges interconnected by one or more connecting members placed on the periphery of said flanges and rendering the supporting axle rigid, and wherein said one or more flanges support one or more intermediate gears between them, said one or more intermediate gears purposed to intermesh with said teeth of said driveshaft;

a traction sheave purposed to transmit motion of said drive shaft to an elevator car by means of cables;

said traction sheave being provided with internal toothing purposed to engage with said intermediate gears;

said intermediate gears comprising a gear assembly to reduce rotational speed of said motor for said traction sheave, said gear assembly being located inside said traction sheave;

said drive shaft passing through said traction sheave, said drive motor being coupled to one end of said drive shaft and a brake being mounted on the other end of said drive shaft on the opposite side of said traction sheave.

2. An elevator machine according to claim 1, further providing that said at least one of said intermediate gears is rotatably mounted with bearings on its axle.

3. An elevator machine according to claim 1, further providing that said brake is fixed to a frame plate of said elevator machine opposite said motor.

4. An elevator machine according to claim 1, further providing that side walls of said traction sheave are of a massive construction so as to dampen the noise generated by the gear assembly.

5. An elevator machine according to claim 1, wherein said fixed supporting axle comprises two tubular parts and two flanges interconnected by three connecting members placed on the periphery of said flanges at an angular distance of 120°

from each other.