Transportation system
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorDonato Carparelli
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Abstract
A transportation system for a building with multiple floors includes a shaft, a traction sheave drive type elevator and a lift. The elevator that vertically conveys persons has an elevator car which is movable in the shaft and at least two counterweights which are movable together with the car in the shaft in a direction of movement opposite to the direction of movement of the elevator car. The elevator car and the counterweights are driven by drive engines with traction sheaves. The lift that vertically conveys objects may be a self-propelled lift. A lift platform of the lift overlaps at least partly a vertical projection of the elevator car, whereby preferably the vertical projection of the lift platform is smaller than the vertical projection of the elevator car.
Claims16
A transportation system for a building with multiple floors, the transportation system comprising:
- a shaft;
- a traction sheave drive type elevator for vertically conveying persons, the elevator having an elevator car movable in the shaft and at least one counterweight movable together with the elevator car in the shaft in a direction of movement opposite to a direction of movement of the elevator car, the elevator car and the counterweight being driven by a traction sheave drive type including a drive engine with a traction sheave;
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- a lift for vertically conveying objects based on a different drive type than the elevator, the different drive type not being a traction sheave drive type, the lift having a lift platform movable in the shaft, wherein the lift platform overlaps at least partly a vertical projection of the elevator car, and wherein a vertical projection of the lift platform is smaller than the vertical projection of the elevator car.
A transportation system for a building with multiple floors, the transportation system comprising:
- a shaft;
- a traction sheave drive elevator for vertically conveying persons, the elevator having an elevator car movable in the shaft and at least one counterweight movable together with the elevator car in the shaft in a direction of movement opposite to a direction of movement of the elevator car, the elevator car and the counterweight being driven by a drive engine with a traction sheave;
- a lift for vertically conveying objects based on a different drive type than the elevator, the lift having a lift platform movable in the shaft, wherein the lift platform overlaps at least partly a vertical projection of the elevator car, and wherein a vertical projection of the lift platform is smaller than the vertical projection of the elevator car;
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- wherein the shaft has a plurality of lift shaft doors for providing access for the lift platform or for objects onto the lift platform, each of the lift shaft doors being arranged at an associated one of the floors at a rear side of the shaft, each of the lift shaft doors having an associated controllable lift shaft door drive for reciprocally opening and closing the associated lift shaft door, wherein the lift platform is a mobile lift platform being a vehicle that can be brought in and out of the shaft and having rolling wheels movement on the floors, and wherein the lift shaft door drives are controlled by the mobile lift platform.
A transportation system for a building with multiple floors, the transportation system comprising:
- a shaft;
- a traction sheave drive elevator for vertically conveying persons, the elevator having an elevator car movable in the shaft and at least one counterweight movable together with the elevator car in the shaft in a direction of movement opposite to a direction of movement of the elevator car, the elevator car and the counterweight being driven by a drive engine with a traction sheave;
- a lift for vertically conveying objects based on a different drive type than the elevator, the lift having a lift platform movable in the shaft, wherein the lift platform overlaps at least partly a vertical projection of the elevator car, and wherein a vertical projection of the lift platform is smaller than the vertical projection of the elevator car;
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- wherein the shaft has a plurality of lift shaft doors for providing access for the lift platform or for objects onto the lift platform, each of the lift shaft doors being arranged at an associated one of the floors at a rear side of the shaft, each of the lift shaft doors having an associated controllable lift shaft door drive for reciprocally opening and closing the associated lift shaft door, wherein the lift platform remains in the shaft, and wherein the lift shaft door drives are controlled by autonomous robots as objects conveyed on the lift platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.