Counterweight for a lift car hung on a lifting rope

摘要

So that a counterweight for a lift car hung on a lifting rope is simplified with regard to manufacture, which counterweight consists of a frame which is joined together from U-section bars and has connection devices at the top for a lifting rope, and in which, furthermore, the channels of the vertical frame legs are directed to the inside, and which has several weights inserted one above the other in the frame, supported on the bottom frame leg and held against lateral displacement in the channels of the vertical frame legs, a plate-like shim (4, 4') is arranged under each weight layer, and furthermore the lowermost shim (4, 4') is arranged in such a way that it is supported on the bottom frame leg (7), and in addition two lugs (8) acting in opposite directions to one another are provided on each shim (4, 4'), of which lugs (8) the one lug (8) engages in a positive-locking manner in the channel of the one frame leg (5) and the other lug (8) engages in a positive-locking manner in the channel of the other frame leg (5), and raised edges (10) are arranged at least on the sides of the shims (4, 4') acting in the same direction towards the bottom frame leg (7). <IMAGE>