EP0846643A1 - Güterförderung mit Passagier-Pendelaufzügen - Google Patents

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EP0846643A1
EP0846643A1 EP97309779A EP97309779A EP0846643A1 EP 0846643 A1 EP0846643 A1 EP 0846643A1 EP 97309779 A EP97309779 A EP 97309779A EP 97309779 A EP97309779 A EP 97309779A EP 0846643 A1 EP0846643 A1 EP 0846643A1
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freight
car frame
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Paul Bennett
Bruce A. Powell
Samuel C. Wan
Gilbert W. Wierschke
Anthony Cooney
Richard C. Mccarthy
Joseph Bittar
Frederick H. Barker
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B9/00—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B9/00—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures
    • B66B9/003—Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures for lateral transfer of car or frame, e.g. between vertical hoistways or to/from a parking position
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B11/00—Main component parts of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures
    • B66B11/02—Cages, i.e. cars
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B11/00—Main component parts of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures
    • B66B11/02—Cages, i.e. cars
    • B66B11/0206—Car frames
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B2201/00—Aspects of control systems of elevators
    • B66B2201/30—Details of the elevator system configuration
    • B66B2201/304—Transit control
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B2201/00—Aspects of control systems of elevators
    • B66B2201/30—Details of the elevator system configuration
    • B66B2201/306—Multi-deck elevator cars

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  • This invention relates to moving freight utilizing passenger elevator shuttles of the type in which a passenger cab is transferred between roped elevator car frames and off-hoistway loading/unloading landings and/or between a car frame and landings to another car frame in the adjacent hoistway for carrying freight when not needed for passenger service.
  • hypertall buildings In hypertall buildings, it is anticipated that there may be many tens of thousands of occupants during normal business hours. Although such buildings are contemplated as having significant 24-hour population, a large capacity morning up peak and evening down peak shuttle elevator capability is still required. Thus, elevator shuttles in hypertall buildings will carry passengers- in horizontally transferable cabs between passenger lobbies which may be vertically separated by, for instance, between eighty and two hundred or more floors, with no passenger service lobbies in between.
  • Objects of the invention include providing efficient and effective use of elevator capacity in hypertall buildings, and provision of means for readily handling freight in hypertall buildings which utilize horizontally transferable passenger cabs in passenger elevator shuttles.
  • the passenger cabs of passenger elevator shuttles which can be transferred horizontally between adjacent car frames and between passenger landings and car frames, are removed from the car frames when the shuttles are not needed for passenger service, and freight containers are transferred onto the elevator shuttles for transferring freight from low levels of a building to high levels thereof within the hoistways of the passenger elevator shuttles.
  • freight containers are transferred off the car frame of the elevator shuttle at freight landings on levels in which the freight is to be delivered, the car frame returning downwardly to receive additional freight containers for upward travel to additional freight landings.
  • ballast weights may be transferred onto car frames as freight containers are transferred off, thereby to provide balance so as to not exceed the load or traction capabilities of a roped elevator system.
  • This aspect of the invention may be used with single deck elevator car frames, or multi deck elevator car frames, which include double deck car frames and triple deck car frames, as well as extra deck car frames of the type described in the applications referred to hereinbefore.
  • a multideck elevator system has one of the passenger cabs removed therefrom when the shuttle system is not being utilized for passenger service, the other deck is alternatively empty or either carrying a full freight container upwardly or carrying an empty freight container downwardly.
  • the invention may be practiced by moving car frames which carry full or empty freight containers alternately with being empty.
  • full freight containers are carried upwardly in the building during the early night time (evening) hours, and empty freight containers are carried downwardly in the building during late night time (early morning) hours.
  • Fig. 1 is a partially sectioned, partially broken away, simplified, stylized, schematic perspective view of an elevator shuttle system known to the prior art.
  • Fig. 2 is a partially sectioned, partially broken away, simplified, stylized, schematic perspective view of a shuttle system incorporating the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a partially sectioned, partially broken away, simplified, stylized, schematic perspective view of a shuttle system of the invention, illustrating further details.
  • Fig. 4 is a simplified side elevation view of a car frame exchanging an elevator cab and a ballast weight.
  • Fig. 5 is a simplified, partially broken away side elevation view of horizontal motive means for moving cabs, freight containers, and ballast weights between mutually adjacent car frames, as well as between landings and car frames adjacent thereto.
  • Fig. 6 is a partial, simplified side elevation view of a double deck car frame with a freight container in the lower deck.
  • Fig. 7 is a partial, simplified side elevation view of a double deck car frame with an empty lower deck.
  • a system of lower elevator shuttles 10 include upper hoistways 11 which overlap with lower hoistways 12 at a transfer floor 13, at which elevator cabs can be transferred from the car frame in one of the hoistways 11, 12 into the car frame of the adjacent one of the hoistways 12, 11.
  • the hoistways extend from a horizontal transport level 16 past a ground floor lobby level 17 and upwardly to a floor 18 at which cabs can be transferred either to an upper shuttle system 19 or to a horizontal transport pathway 20.
  • the horizontal transport level 16 includes a pathway 23 along which cabs can be moved so as transfer passengers to another part of this building or to another building in this complex.
  • the passenger lobby level 17 includes elevator cab landings 24, 25 onto which passenger cabs may be transferred to allow access of passengers between passenger cabs and the lobby level 17, through hoistway doors 26, 27.
  • the elevators 19 may comprise local elevators or express, shuttle elevators.
  • the pathway 20 may serve other banks of elevators or simply carry passengers to stations on the floor 18. It is contemplated that the floors 17 and 18 may be separated by well over 100 floors, such as between 120 and 250 floors.
  • similar systems may have the floors 17 and 18 separated by a lesser number of floors, on the order of 50 or 80 floors, with no passenger transfer lobbies on any of the intervening floors.
  • the term "passenger transfer lobby” does not include emergency exit doors, which might be provided along the shuttle elevator hoistways to allow passengers egress during an emergency, while not permitting passenger transfer during normal elevator operation.
  • An embodiment of the invention shown in Fig. 2 provides a freight landing 30 having hoistway doors 31 to provide access to a commercial business on a floor 32.
  • the floor 32 does not have passenger service provided by the lower shuttle elevators 12; instead, passengers are provided service to floor 32 by other, local elevators (not shown).
  • the landing 30 is shown extending to two of the shuttle elevators, which may be preferred to ensure that freight service can be provided even though one of the elevators is inoperative.
  • the upper shuttle elevators 11 are shown provided with a double deck freight landing 36 having decks 37 and 38 at which freight containers may be placed in order to service commercial businesses on corresponding floors 39, 40 through related hoistway doors 41, 42.
  • the double deck landing 36 might be utilized for a two-story department store, or in association with a two-story mall, serving a number of commercial businesses.
  • the shuttle systems of Figs. 1 and 2 are illustrated as utilizing single deck passenger landings as would be used with single deck car frames (not shown).
  • a shuttle elevator system 47 utilizes elevator car- frames 48 having two decks 49, 50.
  • a ground level passenger transfer lobby complex includes lower passenger cab landings 52, 53 having hoistway doors 54, 55 that lead to lower passenger lobbies 56, 57.
  • the ground level passenger transfer lobby complex also includes upper passenger cab landings 60, 61 having hoistway doors 62, 63 that provide passenger access to upper passenger lobbies 64, 65.
  • a freight receiving area 68 and a passenger cab parking area 69 may be on a level 70 which may also serve as a horizontal transportation level.
  • a level 70 which may also serve as a horizontal transportation level.
  • more than one passenger cab may be offloaded from a multi-deck car frame, such as the double deck car frame 48, in the night time hours when the shuttles 47, or some of them, are not needed for transport of passengers.
  • Freight may be removed from a truck 72 and loaded into a freight container 73, which may thereafter be exchanged for the passenger cab on the deck 49 (or alternatively, the deck 50) of the car frame 48.
  • the freight may, however, arrive from some remote point on a horizontal transport facility, such as described in European Patent Application No. 97309210.9.
  • the freight container 73 may then be raised on the car frame 48 to a floor 76 where a commercial business is to receive the freight through the hoistway doors 77 leading to a freight landing 78.
  • a ballast landing 79 with a ballast weight 80 in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, parked in readiness to be utilized to counterbalance the car frame 48.
  • the freight container 76 when the car frame 48 comes to rest with its platform 49 aligned with the landings 78, 79, the freight container 76 will be transferred onto the landing 78 at the same time that the ballast weight 80 is transferred from the landing 79 onto the car frame 48.
  • the mechanism for transferring the cabs, the freight containers, and the ballast weights 80 may take any suitable form, which may however be of the type described briefly with respect to Fig. 5.
  • the bottom of the container 76 has a fixed, main rack 83 extending from front to back (right to left in Fig. 5), and a sliding rack 84 that can slide outwardly to the right, as shown, or to the left.
  • a total of four motorized pinions on each of the car frame platforms.
  • an auxiliary motorized pinion 85 turns clockwise to drive the sliding auxiliary rack 84 out from under the container into the position shown, where it can engage an auxiliary motorized pinion 86 on a landing 87, which is the limit that the rack 84 can slide.
  • auxiliary motorized pinion 86 will turn clockwise pulling the auxiliary rack 84 (which now is extended to its limit) and therefore the entire container 76 to the right as seen in Fig. 5 until such time as an end 90 of the main rack 83 engages a main motorized pinion (not shown) which is located just behind the auxiliary motorized pinion 86 in Fig. 5. Then, that main motorized pinion will pull the entire container 76 fully onto the landing 87 by means of the main rack 83, and as it does so a spring causes the slidable auxiliary rack 84 to retract under the container 76.
  • Auxiliary motorized pinions 88, 89 can assist in moving a cab to the right to a landing 90 and can also assist in moving the container 76 from the landing 90 onto the car frame 48.
  • the auxiliary pinion 86 will operate counterclockwise, causing the sliding, auxiliary rack 84 to move outwardly to the left until its left end 93 engages the auxiliary pinion 85. Then the auxiliary pinion 85 pulls the auxiliary rack 84 and the entire container 76 to the left until the left end 94 of the main rack 83 engages a main motorized pinion (not shown) located behind the auxiliary motorized pinion 85, which then pulls the entire container 76 to the left until it is fully on the car frame 48.
  • ballast weights 80 will have the car frame 48 advance to the position, for instance, shown in Fig. 3 in which its platform 49 is aligned with the receiving area 68 and the cab storage area 69. Then, a passenger cab, such as passenger cab 71, will be offloaded from the platform 49 of car frame 48 and parked, as shown in Fig. 3, as a container such as container 73 will be loaded on the platform 49. The car frame 48 may then be lowered so as to have the platform 50 aligned with the loading level 68 and the parking level 69, so that another passenger cab can be exchanged for another container of freight.
  • a passenger cab such as passenger cab 71
  • the car frame 48 may be raised to a destination, such as the freight landing 78, where the container is offloaded from the car frame 48 onto the landing 78, while simultaneously the ballast weight 80 is loaded from the parking landing 79 onto the car frame 48.
  • the car frame 48 may then go to another floor and exchange the other container for another ballast weight.
  • the car frame will return to the position shown in Fig. 3 to remove the ballast weight 80 and load an additional container, such as the container 73.
  • the car frame may then move down and offload another ballast weight in exchange for a freight container. After that, the car frame will again go upwardly in the building to the destinations for the freight and exchange the freight for the ballast weights that are disposed opposite the freight landings, as seen in Fig. 3.
  • This type of operation may continue until all freight has been moved up into the building or until it is time to bring the freight containers back down.
  • the time when the freight container should be brought back down may be determined by workers at the freight landing pressing a hall call button when the freight container is empty, so that the system can move the freight container at its leisure, or the entire system may be on a real timed schedule such that the first freight container which is delivered to a freight landing will be picked up at a set time, and thereafter, the pick up of freight containers will proceed in the same order in which they were initially delivered. Or any other suitable method may be used.
  • the last ballast weights which were loaded on the car frames will still be on them.
  • a car frame may then go to any of its related freight landings and pick up the empty freight containers at the same time that the ballast weights are offloaded onto the ballast weight landings such as the landing 79.
  • the car frame will then move to another landing to pick up another empty freight container and offload another ballast weight.
  • the car frame will return to the receiving level 68 shown in Fig. 3 to offload an empty freight container, such as container 73 and load the ballast weight which was previously parked in the parking area 69.
  • the car frame would be lowered to exchange another empty freight container for another ballast weight.
  • the car frame would then go upwardly to a freight landing where there is an empty freight container, and exchange it with one of the ballast weights, and so forth.
  • the shuttle elevators will carry freight upwardly and carry ballast weights downwardly; during the later nighttime hours, the shuttle elevators will carry ballast weights upwardly and empty freight containers downwardly.
  • the invention may also be practiced, as soon as any empty freight containers are available to be returned to the receiving level, by exchanging a ballast weight for an empty freight container, returning to the receiving level and exchanging an empty freight container for a full freight container, delivering the full freight container by exchanging it for the ballast weight, going to another empty freight container and exchanging the ballast weight therefor, and returning to the receiving area.
  • the ballast weights may simply be moved a few floors in the high end of the building rather than carried all the way up and down, once containers become empty and therefore available to be returned to the lower level.
  • the empty freight container When the last empty freight container that was moved by a particular car frame has been brought to the receiving and parking levels 68, 69, the empty freight container will be exchanged for a passenger cab, such as the cab 71. Then the car frame will move down so as to exchange another empty freight container with the other of its passenger cabs. The car frame is then ready to move up two levels and commence to carry passengers from the ground level passenger transfer lobby complex.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates the car frame 48 as it may be traveling upwardly during the early night time hours delivering the freight container 73 to a freight landing.
  • the ballast weights 80 are not utilized, and system balance is partially maintained by virtue of leaving one passenger cab 71 on the car frame at all times so as to reduce the difference between the maximum loaded weight (Fig. 6) and the minimum unloaded weight (Fig. 7). Therefore, the requirement for the size of the traction machine and the nature of roping, while more severe than in the embodiment described with respect to Figs.
  • This aspect of the invention may be practiced with elevator car frames having two, three, four or more decks, in systems in which some of the decks are not used in each movement of the car frame during normal transport, or in systems which simply carry cabs in all decks at all times.
  • the invention may be practiced by moving the car frame with one passenger cab, one freight container, and one empty deck in one direction, and moving the car frame with one passenger cab and two empty decks in the other direction.
  • the invention may be practiced by moving two freight containers and one passenger cab in one direction and two empty decks and one passenger cab in the other direction.
  • the invention may be practiced by moving two passenger cabs and a car frame in one direction, and moving two passenger cabs and an empty deck in the other direction. And of course, this aspect of the invention can be combined with the ballast weight aspect of the invention in any desired fashion.
  • the car frame While the car frame is stationary in the hoistway and ballast weights and/or passenger cabs and freight containers are being exchanged, the car frame may preferably be rigidly locked to the building by suitable car/floor locks, such as those disclosed in EP-A-0776859. While the ballast weight and/or the passenger cabs and freight containers are being moved on an elevator car frame, or on a horizontal carriage or bogey, they are preferably locked to the car frame, carriage or bogey, and similarly, when standing at a landing, they are preferably locked to the landing.
  • the locks may take the form of any suitable cab/car locks, such as those described in EP-A-0776858, or otherwise.

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