Designed to move employees and cargo in a variety of commercial settings, Ever-Power’s rack and pinion elevator, also called rack and pinion lift, set the global standard for safe, efficient vertical access. Built with a drive assembly on the car platform, elevator power is supplied by a motor driving a pinion gear. Each pinion equipment operates on a stationary rack linked to a backed tower, and rack and pinion elevator systems can be manufactured with various cab sizes, capacities and control options. Elevators are also produced with an unbiased over-speed safety device, comprising a governor-managed brake and individual pinion (operating on a single rack).
Proven to increase productivity and safety for service owners and crew managers, Ever-Power rack and pinion systems give a competitive advantage over traditional traction-style industrial elevators. Each unit could be set up on building and structure exteriors, enabling expanded production space. Furthermore, there is absolutely no machine area required, no hoistway required, and no overhead loads required. Metal support sizes are decreased, and installation could be completed quickly and more price effectively than conventional elevators. In addition, each state-of-the-artwork elevator also permits frequent inspections and provides a safe means of evacuation during emergency situations.
When determining the specifications for your industrial elevator, please consider the following benefits and advantages a rack-and-pinion drive elevator has compared to a traction drive elevator. Geared traction elevators function through the use of gears to roll steel hoist ropes or cables over a drive shaft. This drive shaft being powered by a high-speed motor, usually mounted in another machine area, to hoist up the passenger car. Rack-and-Pinion elevators operate differently as there are no hoist ropes or cables. The drive electric motor is attached to the top of the car and the drive equipment, called a pinion, is attached to the motor. This allowed for there to be a permanently mounted equipment track, creating a no slip elevator system for use in harsh conditions, like on an outdoor construction site.
The drive assembly is installed on the automobile platform and the power originates from a motor driving a pinion gear. The gears work individually on a stationary rack that’s connected to a support tower.

Metro Elevator may sell or lease a rack and pinion elevator to your specs with an array of cab sizes, various capacities, and with different control options. Each elevator comes with an over-speed safety device, which includes a governor-operated brake and a separate pinion which are powered by the same rack. Rack and pinion elevators and hoists had been designed to meet a variety of needs. They can move personnel and / or cargo in various commercial gear rack for elevator settings and are often used on the exterior of buildings. They are a perfect alternative for temporary construction projects. Also called rack and pinion lifts, Metro’s elevators fulfill or exceed all security requirements and are an efficient approach to vertical transport. They may be installed efficiently and are made to be solid and sturdy, however they aren’t permanent structures.
A rack and pinion elevator system having at least two spaced racks and an elevator cage therebetween which bears at least one drive engine in generating engagement with each rack respectively, carries a transmission device like a shaft which is linked to the elevator cage. At least two pinions, each engaging with a respective rack, are rigidly guaranteed to the tranny means so that the pinions move along the racks together with the elevator cage to transfer generating forces via the transmission device from the less loaded to the more loaded aspect of the elevator cage thereby to substantially equalize the loads on the individual drive motors whatever the position of the guts of gravity of the load in the elevator cage.
Gear rack, when used with spur gears, converts rotary motion into linear motion. Equipment rack from Ever-Power Equipment is made to operate with our share 14 1/2° and 20° PA spur gears.