JPH10167629A - Usage of shuttle elevator and elevator system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To handle freight efficiently by removing a cage for passenger from an elevator car frame in the case where there is no need to transfer passengers, and attaching it to a freight container instead, then transferring it in a hoistway of an elevator shuttle for passenger. SOLUTION: A lower elevator shuttle system 10 is composed of both upper and lower hoistways 11 and 12 and a shifting floor 13 shifting a cage to an adjacent car frame from the car frame of either of these hoistways 11 and 12, and the upper hoistway 11 is made connectible to the shifting floor 13 being concerned in an upper shuttle system 19 at an upper end. The lower hoistway 12 is extendedly installed in passing through a grand floor (lobby level) 17, installing the cage conveyably toward a transfer floor 18 being concerned in the upper shuttle system 19 from a horizontal coveying level 16 of an underground part. According to necessity, the cage for passenger is removed from the elevator car frame, and it is attached to a freight container instead, making it transferable by way of the hoistway.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an elevator car frame suspended by a rope and a landing floor outside the hoistway for carrying cargo when there is no need to transfer passengers.
And / or mobile freight using a passenger elevator shuttle of the type in which a passenger cab is transferred between a car frame and a landing to another car frame in an adjacent hoistway.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION November 1995, in order to extend the range of use of elevator systems suspended by ropes beyond the limits imposed by the weight of the ropes and to meet the needs of skyscrapers (for example, over 100 stories). As described in co-pending U.S. Patent Application Ser. And a plurality of hoistways are formed by a single elevator shuttle. Also, co-pending US patent application Ser. No. 08 / 564,703, owned by the same applicant as filed on Nov. 29, 1995, Ser. No. 08 / 588,577, filed Jan. 18, 1996, And one cab moved upward to save time and ensure efficient use of the hoistway, as described in US Patent Application Serial No. 08 / 729,553, filed October 11, 1996. Then, a facility is used in which the cab can pass on the moving floor where the hoistway on which the other cab moves downward overlaps, so that the cab can move simultaneously in each hoistway of the shuttle in the multi-deck car frame. In order to eliminate the idle hoistway waiting for passengers to get on and off, co-pending US patent application Ser. No. 08 / 565,606, filed Nov. 29, 1995, owned by the same applicant as the present application, is described. As such, off-shaft passenger entry and exit may be used.

It is anticipated that in a skyscraper there will be tens of thousands of users during normal working hours. Such buildings are expected to have a substantial number of people for 24 hours, but it is also desirable to have a shuttle elevator capacity that accommodates a large number of uphill peaks in the morning and a downhill peak in the evening.
In this way, the skyscraper elevator shuttle
For example, passengers can be transported in a horizontally movable cab between passenger lobbies vertically divided between the 80th floor and the 200th floor or more without a passenger transfer lobby in the middle. Become like

Due to the difficulty of moving to the ground floor to seek commercial services, and the great support for commercial services provided by numerous tenants on the top floor of the skyscraper, Considerable commercial services will be provided on higher floors. These services include, besides restaurants, not only daily necessities, but also retailers such as food and clothing, furniture and household appliances. Elevator space (referred to as the "building core") is prohibitive in buildings over 100 floors, because all passengers and cargo arriving at the upper floors of the building must pass through lower floors of the building. Tend to be large. Therefore, this building core should be used most effectively.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an efficient and effective use of elevator capacity in skyscrapers, and to use a horizontally movable passenger cab in a passenger elevator shuttle. It is to provide a means for easily handling cargo in a high-rise building.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a passenger can be moved horizontally between adjacent car frames and between a passenger landing and a car frame when it is not necessary to transfer the passengers. The passenger cab of the elevator shuttle is removed from the car frame and the freight containers are transported by the elevator shuttle to transport cargo within the passenger elevator shuttle hoistway from the lower floor of the building to the upper floor. Further, according to the invention, the cargo container is lowered from the elevator shuttle car frame at the cargo landing on the floor where the cargo is to be transported,
The car frame returns downward for receiving to move another cargo container to another cargo landing.

Further, according to the present invention, when the cargo container is lowered, the ballast weight is placed on the car frame to maintain the balance so as not to exceed the load or traction force of the elevator system suspended by the rope. Is also good.
This aspect of the invention relates to a single-deck elevator car frame, or a multi-deck elevator car frame such as a double-deck car frame or a triple-deck car frame, as well as additional decks of the type described in the application referenced below. It may be used in a car frame.

In accordance with yet another aspect of the present invention, in a multi-deck elevator system, one deck has one passenger cab that is removed if the shuttle system is not used for passenger service, and the other deck. The deck carries empty or loaded cargo containers upwards or carries empty cargo containers downwards.

By providing multiple windings of a suitable rope on a sheave and using a hoist having sufficient capacity to handle the unbalanced load of the elevator counterweight, the present invention provides a method of loading or This can be done by selectively moving the car frame carrying empty cargo containers.

According to the present invention, loaded cargo containers are transported upward in the building in the first half of the night (evening), and empty cargo containers are transported below the building in the second half of the night (early morning).

[0011] Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in light of the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments, which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Referring to FIG. 1, a plurality of shuttle elevators are shown in co-pending U.S. patent application (Attorney Docket No. OT) owned by the same applicant as filed Nov. 14, 1996. No. 2933) in a horizontal and vertical passenger transfer system. The lower elevator shuttle system 10 includes an upper hoistway 11, a lower hoistway 12, and an elevator cab from a car frame of any of the hoistways 11, 12 to an adjacent car frame of any of the hoistways 12, 11. The upper hoistway 11 overlaps with the lower hoistway 12 at the moving floor 13. The hoistway passes through the ground floor lobby level 17 and from the horizontal transport level 16 to the cab where the upper cab system 19 or horizontal transport path 2
0 extends upward to the floor 18 which is transferred to either one of them.

The horizontal transport level 16 includes a transport path 23 along which the cab can be moved to transfer passengers to another part of the building or another building of the complex. Passenger lobby level 17 includes elevator cab landings 24, 25 to which passenger cabs are transferred, passenger cabs and lobby level 1
7 can be accessed by passengers via hoistway doors 26, 27. The elevator 19 includes each stop elevator or an express shuttle elevator. The transport path 20 provides another row of elevators or simply carries passengers to each stop on the floor 18.

It is assumed that floors 17 and 18 are separated by more than 100 floors, for example 120 to 250 floors. A similar system, on the other hand,
Floors 17 and 18 may be separated by a smaller number of floors, such as about 50 or 80 floors, with no passenger movement lobby on any of the intervening floors. As used herein, the term "passenger movement lobby" does not include emergency exits. Emergency exits are provided along the hoistway of the shuttle elevator to allow passengers to exit in an emergency without permitting passengers to pass during normal elevator operation.

The embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 includes a cargo landing 30 having a hoistway door 31 to provide access to store operations on the floor 32. Floor 32
Does not receive service for passengers by the lower shuttle elevator 12, but instead receives passengers to the floor 32 by other stop elevators (not shown).
The landing 30 is preferably provided over two shuttle elevators to ensure that freight service is provided even when one elevator is not operating.

In FIG. 2, the upper shuttle elevator 1
1 is shown with a double deck cargo landing 36 having decks 37 and 38. Cargo containers are
Deck 3 to service store operations on corresponding floors 39, 40 via associated hoistway doors 41, 42
7 and 38. Double deck landing section 36,
Used for two-storey department stores or two-storey malls that serve multiple store operations. The shuttle system of FIGS. 1 and 2 is illustrated as using a single deck with a single deck passenger landing used with a single deck car frame (not shown).

Referring to FIG. 3, shuttle elevator system 47 employs an elevator car frame 48 having two decks 49,50. The ground level passenger lobbies complex includes lower passenger cab landings 52, 53 having hoistway doors 54, 55 leading to lower passenger lobbies 56, 57. The ground level passenger lobbies complex also includes upper passenger cab landings 60, 61 having hoistway doors 62, 63 that provide passenger access to upper passenger lobbies 64, 65.

Below the lobbies 56 and 57 are a cargo receiving area 68 and a passenger cab parking area 69. These areas may be provided on level 70 which functions as a horizontal transport level. Although one passenger cab 71 is shown in FIG. 3, two or more passenger cabs may have a double deck cab frame 48 at night when all or a portion of shuttle 47 need not transfer passengers. Such a multi-deck car frame may be removed. The cargo is unloaded from truck 72 and loaded into cargo container 73, which is then exchanged for a passenger cab on deck 49 (or deck 50) of car frame 48.
Instead of trucks, the cargo may arrive from a remote location on a horizontal transfer facility as described in the aforementioned application (Attorney Docket No. OT-2933).

The cargo container 73 is placed on the car frame 48 and transported to a floor 76 where stores are operated.
The cargo is received via the hoistway door 77 leading to the cargo landing section 78. Opposite the cargo landing 78 is provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a ballast weight landing 79 having a ballast weight 80 prepared to be matched with the car frame 48. As shown in FIG. 4, when the car frame 48 is positioned with the platform 49 aligned with the landings 78, 79, the cargo container 73 is moved to the landing 78 and simultaneously with the ballast weight. 80 is moved from the landing section 79 onto the car frame 48. The mechanism for moving the cab, cargo container and ballast weight 80 may be of any type, but as described briefly in connection with FIG.
It may be of the type described in co-pending US patent application Ser. No. 08 / 663,869, owned by the same applicant as filed on Jun. 19, 2006.

In FIG. 5, at the bottom of the container 73,
A fixed main rack 83 extending from front to back (from right to left in FIG. 5), and a sliding auxiliary rack 84 slidable outward to the right or left as shown.
And A total of four electric pinions are provided on each platform of the car frame. First, the electric auxiliary pinion 85 rotates clockwise to drive the sliding auxiliary rack 84 from the bottom of the container to the illustrated position where the electric auxiliary pinion 86 meshes with the electric auxiliary pinion 86 on the landing section 87. This position is the limit at which the rack 84 can slide.

Thereafter, the electric auxiliary pinion 86 is shown in FIG. 5 until the end 90 of the main rack 83 engages with the electric main pinion (not shown) located just behind the electric auxiliary pinion 86 in FIG. The auxiliary rack 84 is rotated clockwise by pulling the auxiliary rack 84 to the right (currently at its limit), thus pulling the entire container 73. Then, the electric main pinion completely pulls the entire container 73 onto the landing section 87 by the main rack 83, and the spring moves the sliding auxiliary rack 84 to the container 73.
Pull back below. The electric assist pinions 88, 89 assist in moving the cab to the right with respect to the landing section 90, and assist in moving the container 73 from the landing section 90 to the car frame 48.

To load the container 73 from the platform 87 into the car frame 48, the auxiliary pinion 86 operates counterclockwise to move the sliding auxiliary rack 84 to the left outward until its left end 93 engages the auxiliary pinion 85. . The auxiliary pinion 85 is moved until the left end 94 of the main rack 83 engages with an electric main pinion (not shown) located behind the electric auxiliary pinion 85.
4 and the entire container 73 are pulled to the left. Thereafter, the electric main pinion pulls the entire container 73 until the entire container 73 is completely placed on the car frame 48.

The same rack and pinion actuation loads and unloads the passenger cab into the car frame, landing and storage areas, and loads and unloads ballast weights into the standby and storage areas. For clarity, FIG.
In FIG. 5, the pinions 86 and 88 are omitted, and in FIG. 5, the wheels 96 of the cargo container 73 are omitted.

In operation of the embodiment using ballast weights 80, car frame 48 is advanced, for example, to the position shown in FIG. 3 where platform 49 is aligned with receiving area 68 and cab storage area 69. afterwards,
Passenger cabs, such as passenger cab 71, are lowered from platform 49 of car frame 48, parked as shown in FIG. 3, and containers such as container 73 are placed on platform 49. The car frame 48 is then lowered so that the platform 50 is aligned with the loading level 68 and the parking level 69, thereby replacing another passenger cab with another cargo container. Thereafter, the car frame 48 is raised toward a destination, such as a cargo landing 78. At that destination, the container is lowered from the car frame 48 onto the landing section 78, and at the same time, the ballast weight 80 is placed on the car frame 48 from the standby landing section 79.

Thereafter, the car frame 48 moves to another floor and exchanges another container with another ballast weight. Then, the car frame returns to the position shown in FIG. 3, the ballast weight 80 is lowered, and another container such as the container 73 is loaded. Thereafter, the car frame is lowered to lower another ballast weight in exchange for a freight container. Thereafter, the car frame ascends in the building to the destination of the cargo and exchanges the cargo with the ballast weights disposed on the opposite side of the cargo landing portion as shown in FIG. Until all cargo is lifted in the building or until the freight container is returned
This kind of operation is continued. The return time of the freight container should be such that the freight container is moved when the system is free, or the entire freight container is picked up at the set time when the first freight container is sent to the cargo landing. It is determined by the worker at the cargo floor pressing the hall call button when the cargo container is empty, so that the cargo container is picked up as before, proceeding on time in real time. Alternatively, other suitable methods may be used.

When lowering an empty container, the last ballast weight placed on the car frame remains on. The car frame goes to one of the cargo landing sections, and the ballast weight is lowered to the ballast weight landing section such as the landing section 79, and at the same time, an empty cargo container is picked up. The car frame goes to another landing, picks up another empty freight container and lowers another ballast weight. Thereafter, the car frame returns to the receiving level 68 shown in FIG. 3, unloads empty cargo containers such as container 73, and loads previously parked ballast weights in parking area 69.

The car frame is then lowered to exchange another empty cargo container for another ballast weight. The car frame rises to the cargo landing where the empty cargo container is located, where it replaces the empty cargo container with one of the ballast weights. Thus, during the first half of the night, the shuttle elevator carries the cargo upward and the ballast weights downward. And later in the night, the shuttle elevator carries the ballast weights upward and empty cargo containers downward.

The present invention also provides for the replacement of an empty freight container with a ballast weight as soon as the empty freight container is ready to be returned to the receiving level and the return of the empty freight container to the receiving level and the loading of the loaded freight container. Performed by exchanging empty freight containers, carrying loaded freight containers, exchanging ballast weights with them, going to another empty freight container, exchanging for ballast weights, and returning to the receiving area. You may. In other words, when the container is emptied and returned to the lower floor,
The ballast weights may simply go up and down a few floors above the building rather than up and down all floors.

When the last empty freight container moved by the car frame is transported to the receiving and parking levels 68, 69, the empty freight container is exchanged for a passenger cab, such as cab 71. Thereafter, the car frame descends, exchanging another passenger cab for an empty freight container. And
The car frame is ready to raise the two floors and begins carrying passengers from the ground level passenger mobility complex.

The present invention, in another embodiment of a shuttle system having a multi-deck, is shown in FIGS.
May be performed by the method shown in FIG. FIG. 5 shows the car frame 48 moving upward during the first half of the night to carry the cargo container 73 to the cargo landing. In this embodiment, no ballast weight 80 is used and the balance of the system is:
To reduce the difference between the maximum payload (FIG. 6) and the no-load (FIG. 7), it is always partially maintained by leaving the passenger cab 71 on the car frame. Thus, the size of the hoist and the size of the rigging are even more severe than in the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, while a completely empty car is needed to pick up the next cargo container and return to it. Smaller than when using a frame.

However, the present invention simply uses the car frame to remove the passenger cab from the car frame and carry the loaded freight container above the building, and then uses the car frame for the next loaded freight container. It is also possible to carry out the process by returning the empty container to the empty state, and also by moving the empty container upward to retrieve the empty cargo container after returning the empty container downward. Of course, this requires special rigging that can accommodate the increased traction to compensate for the reduced car weight, and large machinery to compensate for the unbalanced pull of the counterweight. This aspect of the invention provides for the use of 2, 3, 4
Or it is realized with an elevator car frame with more decks. The system may always carry the cab on all decks, even if some decks are not used when moving the car frame during normal transfer.

For example, in a car frame of a triple deck,
The present invention moves a car frame in one direction with one passenger cab, one cargo container, and one empty deck, and moves the car frame with one passenger cab and two empty decks. It may be executed by moving in another direction. Alternatively, the present invention may be practiced by moving two cargo containers and one passenger cab in one direction, and moving two empty decks and one passenger cab in the other direction. Good. Alternatively, the present invention moves the two passenger cabs and one cargo container in one direction,
It may be implemented by moving two passenger cabs and one empty deck in the other direction. And, of course, this aspect of the invention may be combined with the ballast weight aspect of the invention in any desired manner.

The car frame is parked in the hoistway and the ballast weight and / or the passenger cab and the freight container are exchanged, but preferably the car frame is November 2, 1995.
It may be securely locked to the building by a suitable car / floor lock device as described in co-pending US patent application Ser. No. 08 / 565,648, owned by the same applicant as filed on the 9th. Ballast weights and / or passenger cabs and freight containers are moved on elevator car frames or on horizontal carriers or trolleys,
Preferably, locked to a car frame, carrier or trolley,
Similarly, when it is at the landing section, it is preferable that it be locked to the landing section. Locking devices are described in co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 564,658, owned by the same applicant as filed Nov. 29, 1995.
Any suitable cab / car frame locking device may be used. Also, all of the aforementioned patent applications are incorporated by reference into the present invention.

In summary, according to the present invention, the hoistway of the passenger shuttle elevator has a cargo landing near the store operation on the high floor of the high rise building, and the passenger cab on the shuttle elevator car frame is In exchange for cargo containers, shuttle elevators are used to move cargo containers from the cargo receiving area at the bottom of the building to each cargo landing. In one embodiment, so that the cargo container is unloaded from the car frame and the ballast weight is placed on the car frame so that the elevator does not lose balance, the car frame returns to the cargo receiving area for loading another cargo container. .
Another embodiment reduces the difference between the heaviest and the lightest by carrying cargo containers on one of the two decks and an empty passenger cab on the other deck. The car frame then returns empty to the cargo receiving area for loading the next cargo container. Alternative embodiments use an arrangement to return the entire empty car frame to pick up the next cargo container, or other extensive rigging or special large hoists.

Thus, while the present invention has been shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments, the foregoing and various other changes, deletions and additions may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. What can be done is to be understood by those skilled in the art.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an elevator shuttle system known in the prior art, partially sectioned, partially cut away, simplified and standardized.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a partial cross section, partial cutout, simplification, and stylization of a shuttle system incorporating the invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing the shuttle system of the present invention in more detail, showing a partial cross section, a partial cutout, a simplification, and a standardization.

FIG. 4 is a simplified side view of a car frame for exchanging elevator cabs and ballast weights.

FIG. 5 is a simplified, partial cut-out of horizontal moving means for moving cabs, cargo containers and ballast weights between a plurality of adjacent car frames, and similarly between the landing and the adjacent car frames. It is chipping and is a side view.

FIG. 6 is a partial simplified side view of a double deck car frame having a cargo container on a lower deck.

FIG. 7 is a partial simplified side view of a double deck car frame with an empty lower deck.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Lower elevator shuttle system 11 Upper hoistway 12 Lower hoistway 13 Moving floor 16 Horizontal transport level 17 Ground floor lobby level 18 Floor 19 Upper shuttle system 20 Horizontal transport path 23 Transport path 24 ... Elevator cab flooring section 25 ... Elevator cab flooring section 26 ... Hoistway door 27 ... Hoistway door 30 ... Cargo flooring section 31 ... Hoistway door 32 ... Floor 36 ... Double deck landing section 37 ... Deck 38 ... Deck 41 ... Hoistway door 42 ... Hoistway door

Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Bruce A. Powell United States, Connecticut, Canton, Morgan Road 71 (72) Samuel C. Inventor. One United States, Simsbury, Connecticut, Car Farm Road 6 (72) Gilbert W. Inventor. Wiresick United States, Connecticut, West Simsbury, Nimrod Road 7 (72) Inventor Anthony Cooney United States, Connecticut, Unionville, Coppermine Road 211 (72) Inventor Richard Sea. McCarthy United States, Connecticut, Simsbury, Alder Road 28 (72) Inventor Joseph Bitter United States, Connecticut, Avon, Longview Road 31 (72) Inventor Frederick H. Barker United States, Connecticut, Bristol, Brewster Road 288

Claims (15)

[Claims] Claims: 1. A passenger cab that can be moved horizontally,
A method of using a shuttle elevator extending between a lower passenger lobby and an upper passenger lobby,
The lower lobby and the upper lobby are separated by a number of intermediate floors for cargo transfer without a passenger transfer lobby, the method comprising: (a) a plurality of intermediate floors adjacent to the hoistway of the shuttle elevator; Providing a cargo landing, wherein the landing comprises:
The elevator car frame can receive a horizontally movable cargo container from the elevator car frame, and the elevator car frame moves toward the landing section in the hoistway corresponding to the landing section of the hoistway. (B) at a first point along one of the hoistways, exchanging a passenger cab located on one car frame with a freight container; (c) the freight container Moving the car frame on which is loaded from the car landing section to one cargo landing section selected from the car landing section, and (d) the one selected cargo section from the car frame. Transferring the cargo container to a landing floor. 2. (e) after said step (d), leaving said cargo container on said one cargo landing section during unloading of said cargo container; Moving the car frame along the hoistway to a point adjacent to another cargo container; (g) transferring the another cargo container to the one car frame; h) moving the another cargo container on the one car frame to another of the cargo landings; and (i) moving the another cargo container from the one car frame to the another landing. Transferring the another cargo container to the other cargo container. 3. (j) leaving the cargo container on the one cargo landing portion during the unloading of the cargo container after the step (d); and (k) the hoistway. Moving the one car frame in a direction away from the one cargo landing section; and (l) after the unloading time, moving the one car frame in the hoistway. (M) moving the cargo container from the one cargo landing section to the one car frame; (n) moving the cargo container to a point adjacent to the one cargo landing section; Moving the one car frame along the hoistway to the first point; and (o) exchanging the cargo container on the one car frame with a passenger cab. The method of claim 1, wherein: And (p) providing a plurality of ballast weight landing sections adjacent to the hoistway of the shuttle elevator, wherein the ballast weight landing sections are provided for each of the cargo landing sections. Wherein each of the ballast weight landing sections is located on the opposite side of a corresponding one of the cargo landing sections via an associated hoistway, and (q) the ballast weights Providing a horizontally movable ballast weight to each of the ballast weight landing portions; and (r) the step (d) includes the step of: providing the ballast weight provided on a corresponding one of the ballast weight landing portions. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of replacing one of said cargo containers. 5. (s) leaving said cargo container on said one cargo landing section during unloading of said cargo container after said step (d); and (t) another cargo. Moving said one car frame to a point along said hoistway near a container; and (u) exchanging said one ballast weight on said one car frame for said another cargo container; (V) moving the another cargo container on the one car frame to another one of the cargo landings; and (w) a ballast weight facing the another cargo landing. 5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of exchanging another ballast weight located on the landing for the other cargo container on the one car frame. 6. (x) after said step (d), placing said cargo container on said one cargo landing section during unloading of said cargo container; and (y) said hoistway Moving said one car frame in a direction away from said one cargo landing section within; (z) after said unloading time, in said hoistway to said one cargo landing section; Moving the one car frame to an adjacent point; (aa) exchanging the ballast weight on the car frame with the one cargo container; and (bb) moving the hoistway to the first point. 5. The method of claim 4, further comprising: moving the one car frame along; and (cc) exchanging the one cargo container on the car frame with a passenger cab. the method of. 7. (dd) after the step (d), leaving the cargo container on the one cargo landing section during unloading of the cargo container; and (ee) the hoistway Moving the one car frame in a direction away from the one cargo landing section within (ff) after the unloading time, in the hoistway to the one cargo landing section. Moving the one car frame to an adjacent point; (gg) exchanging the ballast weight on the car frame with the one cargo container; and (hh) traveling to the hoistway to the first point. 5. The method of claim 4, further comprising: moving the one car frame along; and (ii) exchanging the one freight container on the car frame with another freight container. the method of. 8. A shuttle elevator having a multi-deck car frame for simultaneously carrying a plurality of horizontally movable passenger cabs and extending between a lower passenger moving lobby and an upper passenger moving lobby. In the method, the lower lobby and the upper lobby are separated by a number of intermediate floors for cargo transfer without a passenger transfer lobby, the method comprising: (a) adjoining a hoistway of the shuttle elevator; Providing a plurality of cargo landings, wherein the landings are capable of receiving a horizontally movable cargo container from an elevator car frame, and wherein the elevator car frame comprises one of the hoistways. (B) moving along the corresponding hoistway of the hoistway in the corresponding hoistway;
Moving one of said car frames together with said plurality of passenger cabs to a point, (c) at said first point, one cargo container and one on said one car frame. Exchanging a passenger cab, and (d) moving the one cargo frame carrying the cargo container and the remaining plurality of passenger cabs to a selected one of the cargo landings. And (e) transferring the cargo container from the one car frame to the one cargo landing. 9. (f) after said step (d), leaving said cargo container on said one cargo landing section during unloading of said cargo container; and (g) said remaining cargo container. Moving the car frame with the cab and sending it to a point along the hoistway near another cargo container; and (h) then transferring the another cargo container to the one car frame. (I) moving the another cargo container on the one car frame and the remaining cab to another one of the cargo landing parts; and (j) the one car. Transferring said another cargo container from a frame to said another landing. 10. (k) after the step (d), leaving the freight container on the one cargo landing portion during unloading of the freight container; (l) the hoistway Moving the one car frame together with the remaining cabs in a direction away from the one cargo landing within; and (m) after the unloading time, the one car frame in the hoistway. Moving the one car frame with the remaining cab to a point adjacent to the cargo landing; and (n) transferring the cargo container from the one cargo landing to the one car frame. (O) moving the one car frame along the hoistway to the first point; and (p) connecting the cargo container and the passenger cab on the one car frame. And further comprising the step of replacing The method of claim 8 that. 11. (q) after the step (d), leaving the cargo container on the one cargo landing section during unloading of the cargo container; and (r) the hoistway Moving the one car frame together with the remaining cabs in a direction away from the one cargo landing within; and (s) after the unloading time, the one car frame in the hoistway. Moving the one car frame with the remaining cab to a point adjacent to a cargo landing, and (t) transferring the cargo container from the one cargo landing to the one car frame. (U) moving the one car frame along the hoistway to the first point; and (v) connecting the cargo container and another cargo container on the one car frame. And a replacement step. The method of claim 8,. 12. An elevator system for a building, comprising: an elevator shaft in the building; a lower passenger movement lobby adjacent to the hoistway; an upper passenger movement lobby adjacent to the hoistway; The upper lobby is separated by a number of intermediate floors that do not have a passenger moving lobby, and a cargo receiving and landing unit adjacent to the hoistway at a lower end of the building; and any cargo on the intermediate floor. A delivery landing section and the hoistway interconnect all the lobbies and landing sections, and a car frame movable vertically in the hoistway between all the lobbies and the landing section. A horizontally movable passenger cab, a horizontally movable freight container, and exchanging the freight container at the freight receiving and landing section with the passenger cab on the car frame, And a horizontal moving means for moving the cargo container from the car frame to the cargo delivery landing section. 13. The system of claim 12, wherein the car frame is a single deck car frame. 14. The system of claim 12, wherein said car frame is a multi-deck car frame. 15. A ballast weight landing section provided directly on a side opposite to the cargo receiving landing section via the hoistway, and a ballast disposed on the ballast weight landing section when not in use. A weight, and the horizontal moving means exchanges the cargo container in the cargo receiving landing section with the passenger cab on the car frame, and further comprises the cargo delivery landing section. 13. The system of claim 12, further comprising means for exchanging ballast weights for said cargo container.