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AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsRichard C. McCarthy, Joseph Bittar, Frederick H. Barker, Bruce A. Powell, Samuel C. Wan, Paul Bennett, Anthony Cooney, John K. Salmon, deceased
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Elevator cabs are transferred between elevators, which may be shuttles, in various levels of a building, such as transport floors, in response to car calls registered in the cabs and hall calls registered on the transport floors. The cabs may be transferred from carriages or bogeys onto elevator car frames in a lateral direction, which is perpendicular to the motion of the cab on a carriage or bogey, or in a longitudinal direction which is the same as the direction of motion of a cab on a carriage or bogey. The horizontal/vertical control and transfer may be effected in response to the arrival at transport floors of elevators having cabs therein, or in response to the arrival at an elevator of a bogey carrying a cab which must be transported between a transport floor on one level of a building and a transport floor on another level of a building, in order to serve the need of a car call registered therein or a hall call. The horizontal transportation may occur on transport floors within a building, or may extend between different building segments or between different buildings.
A method of moving passengers between a first point and a second point which is both vertically and horizontally remote from said first point, comprising:
A method of moving passengers between a first passenger landing at a first point on a first transport floor and a second passenger landing at a second point on a second transfer floor which is horizontally remote from said first point, which comprises:
A method of moving a passenger from a first point on a first transfer floor at a first level of a first building to a second point on a second transfer floor at a second level of a second building, comprising:
A method of moving passengers between any of a plurality of mutually horizontally remote first passenger landings on a first transport floor to selected ones of a plurality of mutually horizontally remote second passenger landings on a second transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor or a plurality of mutually horizontally remote third passenger landings on a third transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor and vertically remote from said second transport floor, comprising:
A method of moving passengers between any of a plurality of mutually horizontally remote first passenger landings on a first transport floor to selected ones of a plurality of mutually horizontally remote second passenger landings on a second transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor or a plurality of mutually horizontally remote third passenger landings on a third transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor and vertically remote from said second transport floor, comprising:
A system for providing horizontal and vertical transportation to passengers, comprising:
A method of moving passengers between a first passenger landing adjacent an elevator on a first floor and a second passenger landing at a point on a second floor which is horizontally remote from said elevator, which comprises:
A method of moving a passenger from a first point on a first transfer floor at a first level of a first building to a second point on a second transfer floor at a second level of a second building, comprising:
A system for providing horizontal and vertical transportation to passengers, comprising:
A method of moving passengers between a first point and a second point which is horizontally remote from said first point, comprising the steps of:
A method of moving passengers between a first passenger landing on a first transport floor to selected ones of a plurality of mutually horizontally remote second passenger landings on a second transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor or, alternatively, to a plurality of mutually horizontally remote third passenger landings on a third transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor and vertically remote from said second transport floor, comprising:
A method of moving passengers between a first passenger landing on a first transport floor to selected ones of a plurality of mutually horizontally remote second passenger landings on a second transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor or, alternatively, to a plurality of mutually horizontally remote third passenger landings on a third transport floor vertically remote from said first transport floor and vertically remote from said second transport floor, comprising:
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