Innovation Design of Elevator for Continuous and Discrete Buildings

The traditional elevator can only achieve vertical transportation task in the elevator shaft and can not achieve horizontal movement, which leads to that the elevator can not achieve horizontal transportation tasks in buildings. In order to further improve convenience and comfort of elevator transport, the new structure and operation mode of elevator are studied in this paper. Firstly, two types of building are defined: continuous type and discrete type. Then, based on the classification of building type, the structure and operation mode of elevator with function of vertical and horizontal travel are studied. In order to realize the horizontal movement of elevator for continuous buildings, horizontal motion of whole elevator or horizontal motion of car alone can be adopted. For buildings of discrete type, the feasible scheme is to separately drive the car horizontally run to realize the horizontal travel of elevator. The innovation design of elevator will have some help in the design and study of new elevator.