A guide shoe for an elevator is formed entirely of plastic materials and includes a guide shoe housing, a damping element and a guide element that are firmly bonded to one another and form a one-piece composite structure. The composite structure is produced by a three-component injection molding process.

A sliding guide shoe for an elevator has a guide shoe housing and an insert inserted into the guide shoe housing for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight. In order to positionally secure the insert, the insert has profiled pins that engage in bores in the guide shoe housing. In order to form the profiling, the pins each have radially outwardly directed ribs or projections that are distributed evenly over the circumference.

An elevator system includes guide rails located in an elevator hoistway and a running device adapted to reciprocate along the guide rails, and the guide rails are tensioned guide ropes.

An elevator system (2) comprising a hoistway (4), an elevator car (6) and a counterweight (8) arranged to move within the hoistway (4). The system (2) further includes a first counterweight guide rail and a second counterweight guide rail arranged to guide the counterweight within the hoistway (4) and a guide rail bracket (32) which connects the first and second counterweight guide rails together. An elevator machine (10) is arranged to drive a tension member (14), which couples the elevator car (6) and counterweight together (8), to move the elevator car (6) within the hoistway (4). The system (2) further includes a friction reducing element (36) arranged on the guide rail bracket (32) such that if the tension member (14) moves towards the guide rail bracket (32) during operation of the elevator system (2), the tension member (14) contacts the friction reducing element (36).

An elevator car frame, an elevator car and an elevator system. The elevator car frame includes a top, a bottom and uprights extending between the top and the bottom and deviating from a longitudinal middle portion of the elevator car frame, and at least one of the uprights is provided with car guide shoes arranged to enable the elevator car frame, after being installed in an elevator hoistway, to move along a car guide rail disposed in the elevator hoistway through the car guide shoes.

A sliding guide shoe for an elevator for conveying persons or goods includes a guide shoe housing with a channel-like rail receptacle in which an inlay for guidance of an elevator car along a guide rail extending in longitudinal direction is inserted. The guide shoe housing is constructed substantially from the three following housing parts: a base plate and two side parts that are fastened to the base plate by screw connections. The guide shoe housing enables the channel width of the rail receptacle to be varied for adaptation to different guide rails.

An elevator system, suitable both for normal operating situations and for emergency situations, includes an elevator car that can be displaced directly or indirectly within an elevator shaft, a guide means that is connected to the elevator car, a derailment protection device that is connected to the elevator car, and a guide rail that has a first subregion which works together with the guide means and is used to guide the elevator car along the guide rail, and that has a second subregion which works together with the derailment protection device. A clearance between the derailment protection device and the second subregion of the guide rail is large enough that the derailment protection device and the second subregion of the guide rail remain spaced apart from each other during the normal operating situations.

A cabin guide assembly is described. The cabin guide assembly includes a material layer that has a first material layer surface and a guide that has a first guide surface and a second guide surface opposite the first guide surface. The second guide surface is coupled to the first material layer surface. The cabin guide assembly further includes a base coupled to at least a portion of the first guide surface and one or more adjustment members coupled to the base and arranged to exert an adjustable force against the guide and the material layer.

A sliding guide shoe for an elevator includes a guide shoe housing and a two-part insert inserted into the guide shoe housing. The insert includes a damping element and a sliding element for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight.

An elevator sliding guide shoe for an elevator car and an elevator counterweight includes: a pair of shoe liner brackets, adapted to be detachably mounted on a straight beam of an elevator car or an elevator counterweight; and a shoe liner, disposed between the pair of shoe liner brackets, including a pair of side walls and a bottom wall between the pair of side walls. The pair of side walls is detachably mounted on the pair of shoe liner brackets, respectively, such that the shoe liner is detachable by removing either one shoe liner bracket. The maintenance for the shoe liner can be completed without disassembling the entire elevator sliding guide shoe, especially for a hoistway with narrow space therein. It is very convenient to maintain and repair the split-type elevator sliding guide shoe, and it takes relatively less time in assembling and disassembling thereof.