A forming device for forming links in the shape of a Mbius strip includes a rotation module with an inner path. The forming device has a widening for 180 rotation of a strip introduced into the rotation module. The rotation module has an inlet suitable for one end of a strip, an outlet suitable for the strip and the inner path extends from the inlet to the outlet. The widening is adapted for rotation of the end of the strip 180 about its longitudinal axis. The device also includes a gas injector positioned at the inlet of the rotation module intended to drive the strip through the inner path of the rotation module.

A flexible cable 1 is produced by endless winding of at least one yarn 6 around two thimbles 2, 4. The yarn 6 comprises aramid or similar fibres. Each thimble 2, 4 holds a stack 9 of a plurality of layers 10 of turns of the yarn 6. The cable 1 comprises a resin 12 which is provided at at least one of the first and second thimble only, for mutually connecting the layers of turns of the yarn and to retain a tangential orientation of the respective yarn layers 10 with respect to each other when the flexible endless winding cable is subject to a load. The cable has optional carbon fibre sheets 18, 20 between preselected yarn layers at the thimbles.

A rope includes a main rope segment, a branching position and an end connector segment, wherein the end connector segment includes a first rope-branch, which includes a first rope-branch-eye, and a second rope-branch, which includes a second rope-branch-eye, wherein an attainable maximum first effective length of the first rope-branch is higher than 120% of an attainable maximum second effective length of the second rope-branch. The rope allows for alternative favourable manners of connecting the rope to other ropes and to other types of external objects.

A belt for carrying an elevator car and/or a counterweight of an elevator system includes a belt body with a traction side for contacting a traction sheave of the elevator system and a back side opposite the traction side. The belt body has a groove profile on the traction side adapted to an outer contour of the traction sheave, and has a profile on the back side deviating from the groove profile. Multiple tension members are embedded in the belt body for transmitting tensile forces, wherein each tension member is formed by multiple strands twisted together, and each strand is formed by multiple aramid fibers twisted together.

A flexible cable 1 is produced by endless winding of at least one yarn 6 around two thimbles 2, 4. The yarn 6 comprises aramid or similar fibres. Each thimble 2, 4 holds a stack 9 of a plurality of layers 10 of turns of the yarn 6. The cable 1 comprises a resin 12 which is provided at at least one of the first and second thimble only, for mutually connecting the layers of turns of the yarn and to retain a tangential orientation of the respective yarn layers 10 with respect to each other when the flexible endless winding cable is subject to a load. The cable has optional carbon fibre sheets 18, 20 between preselected yarn layers at the thimbles.

A utility rope apparatus and a method of coupling first and second rope portions of the utility rope apparatus together is disclosed herein. The utility rope apparatus may include a rope, a main loop binding, a first end binding, and a second end binding. The rope may include a first end, a second end, and a length. The main loop binding may be to couple the first and second ends of the rope together to define a main loop of the rope. The first end binding may be coupled to the main loop of the rope to define a first end loop subdivided from the main loop. The second end binding may be coupled to the main loop of the rope to define a second end loop subdivided from the main loop and offset from the first end loop by about one-half of the length of the rope.