Designed to move personnel and cargo in a variety of industrial settings, Ever-Power’s rack and pinion elevator, also called rack and pinion lift, set the global standard for secure, efficient vertical access. Equipped with a drive assembly on the car system, elevator power is supplied by a motor driving a pinion equipment. Each pinion equipment operates on a stationary rack connected to a backed tower, and rack and pinion elevator systems can be manufactured with different cab sizes, capacities and control choices. Elevators are also manufactured with an independent over-speed safety device, consisting of a governor-operated brake and separate pinion (operating on the same rack).
Which can increase productivity and safety for service owners and crew 
managers, Ever-Power rack and pinion systems give a competitive benefit over traditional traction-style commercial elevators. Each unit could be installed on building and gear rack for elevator framework exteriors, enabling expanded production space. Furthermore, there is no machine area required, no hoistway needed, no overhead loads necessary. Metal support sizes are decreased, and installation could be finished quickly and more cost effectively than standard elevators. In addition, each state-of-the-art elevator also permits frequent inspections and provides a safe means of evacuation during emergency situations.
When determining the specs for your industrial elevator, please consider the following benefits and advantages that a rack-and-pinion drive elevator offers in comparison to a traction drive elevator. Geared traction elevators function by using gears to roll metal hoist ropes or cables over a drive shaft. This drive shaft becoming powered by a high-speed engine, usually mounted in another machine room, to hoist up the passenger car. Rack-and-Pinion elevators operate differently as there are no hoist ropes or cables. The drive engine is mounted on the best of the car and the drive equipment, called a pinion, is usually attached to the electric motor. This allowed for there to become a permanently mounted equipment monitor, creating a no slip elevator system for use in harsh environments, like on an outdoor construction site.
The drive assembly is installed directly on the automobile platform and the power comes from a motor traveling a pinion gear. The gears function separately on a stationary rack that is linked to a support tower.
Metro Elevator can sell or lease a rack and pinion elevator to your specifications with a wide variety of cab sizes, various capacities, and with different control choices. Each elevator comes with an over-speed safety device, which includes a governor-managed brake and a separate pinion which are powered by the same rack. Rack and pinion elevators and hoists were designed to meet a number of needs. They can move personnel and / or cargo in various commercial settings and are frequently used on the surface of buildings. They are a perfect solution for temporary construction projects. Also known as rack and pinion lifts, Metro’s elevators meet or exceed all basic safety requirements and so are an efficient approach to vertical transport. They could be installed quickly and easily and are made to be strong and sturdy, yet they are not permanent structures.
A rack and pinion elevator system having at least two spaced racks and an elevator cage therebetween which carries at least one drive motor in traveling engagement with each rack respectively, includes a transmission device such as a shaft which is connected to the elevator cage. At least two pinions, each engaging with a respective rack, are rigidly secured to the transmission means so that the pinions move along the racks alongside the elevator cage to transfer driving forces via the transmission device from the much less loaded to the more loaded aspect of the elevator cage thereby to considerably equalize the loads on the individual drive motors regardless of the position of the guts of gravity of the load in the elevator cage.
Gear rack, when used in combination with spur gears, converts rotary movement into linear motion. Gear rack from Ever-Power Gear is designed to operate with our stock 14 1/2° and 20° PA spur gears.