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US 2022/0177274 A1Published application
Ropeless elevator vehicle workstation
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsRandy Roberts, Kiron Bhaskar
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AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsRandy Roberts, Kiron Bhaskar
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A system for transferring elevator cars from a first elevator shaft to a second elevator shaft including: a first propulsion system configured to move a first elevator car through the first elevator shaft; a transfer carriage configured to move the first elevator car and the first propulsion system from the first elevator shaft to the second elevator shaft through a transfer station, the transfer carriage including: an elevator car containment slot to receive the first elevator car and the first propulsion system when the elevator car containment slot is aligned with the first elevator shaft, wherein the first propulsion system is configured to move the first elevator car and the first propulsion system from an elevator system within the first elevator shaft onto the transfer carriage to a vehicle workstation.
A system for transferring elevator cars from a first elevator shaft to a second elevator shaft, the system comprising:
A method of moving elevator cars amongst elevator shafts, the method comprising:
A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.