"Normally, the height between each floor is no more than three meters, while the height of a normal adult is close to two meters.

In order to ensure that most people can use this 'new' elevator, the height of the gondola should be at least 2.5 meters.

That is, the spacing of each basket on the wheels is less than fifty centimeters.

Since the hanging basket must be in an upright state at all times, the top must be movable.

However, there is only such a small safety interval between each gondola, and if the gondola is empty, it is easy to be affected by strong winds, causing it to swing in the air, and there may be a situation where two gondolas collide with each other at high altitude.

Therefore, this seemingly reasonable design actually has certain safety risks, at least when the wind is strong, it cannot be used. ”

"There's also the problem that this design of a gondola every other floor actually increases the cost of the entire equipment as well."

"In addition, everyone may only think about the situation of going upstairs, what should they do when they go downstairs?"

"That's right, if people who enter the gondola from different floors have to go up and down, how should this wheel turn?"

"In fact, no matter which direction the wheels turn, there will always be one side up and one side down, but in this way, the only way to meet the needs of going up and down at the same time is to extend the aisle of each floor to the other side of the wheel."

"That's the reason, but in doing so, the previous design to reduce the cost of the aisle would not be useful.

Each floor required the construction of a passage more than 20 meters long, which increased the cost at least three times. ”

"It would be nice if the distance between the two buildings was just over 20 meters, so that only one wheel needed to be built to meet the needs of the residents of both buildings at the same time.

The cost of the two buildings can be split by half. ”

"That's a good idea, and in fact, we don't need to put this wheel facing the stairwell of the two buildings.

This can be solved by simply deflecting the wheels at an angle, connecting the different stair units, or using separate aisles to connect the respective entry and exit points.

In addition, flexible aisles can connect stairwells in four or six units at the same time, further reducing the cost of such elevators to one-quarter or one-sixth of the original cost per resident. ”

However, this design still does not solve the problem that any basket on the runner docks, and all the baskets have to stop at the same time.

There are not many residents in a unit building, and this is not so obvious.

But if this elevator needs to meet the needs of four or six units of residents up and down at the same time, this conflict is very obvious.

It is even possible that residents living on the seventh floor have to dock six times before they can get down to the surface.

If we can find a way to resolve the conflict between these different hanging baskets, the operation efficiency will be much higher. ”

"Yes, if so many hanging baskets are driven by the same wheel, it means that even if only one person goes up and down, the wheels have to run with a high load, and the work efficiency is indeed a bit low."

"Since too many hanging baskets will affect work efficiency, we can reduce the number of hanging baskets by half, so that the impact on everyone's travel should not be large."

"If the baskets are reduced by half, then the distance between them is greater, so for the sake of safety and comfort, it is completely possible to change the gondola with a door."

"Actually, we don't have to have the gondolas that don't have people spinning at the same time.

We can make a movable hook at the connection point between each gondola and the wheel, and the S-shaped hook can be rotated in both directions to hook or release the load-bearing rod on the wheel.

At the gondola stops in each aisle, a section of slide rails is designed, and there is also an S-shaped hook on top of the slide rails.

If the gondola needs to stop, when approaching the stop, the S-hook on the slide rail will be the first to extend and hook the stress bar on the gondola.

Then the hook above the gondola is reversed and the load-bearing rod on the wheel is loosened.

The S-shaped hook on the slide rail pulls the gondola into the docking room through the slide rail, so that the docking of any gondola can be realized without affecting the normal operation of other gondolas on the wheels. ”

"It's a brilliant idea, those gondolas that don't have people and don't need to run are usually in the docking room, and then hooked to wheels when someone is using them.

The used gondola will automatically dock in a docking room that can be accessed by people, waiting for those who need it to use it again. ”

Wu Guangliang saw this, his heart lit up, such an elevator operation mode is still quite peculiar, if these gondolas are installed in some sensors, you can control the gondola through the computer when can participate in the operation process of the elevator.

It is even possible to automatically select a vacant dock to dock in these gondolas, ensuring that almost every floor can be used by people at any time.

However, Wu Guangliang instantly thought of another question, so he replied through the Internet: "Other floors are fine, but if there is already a gondola in the docking room at the bottom level, how should other people's gondolas be parked?"

Do you have to wait until that gondola leaves the dock to vacate the space, and then the other gondolas can stop in turn? ”

"This?"

"Haha! If there are people coming down from every floor at some point, there is no place in the parking room on the ground floor, so will the whole wheel have to stop?

Otherwise, they will only keep turning around on it, turning around to change a gondola, and those on the sixth or seventh floor may be dizzy! ”

"I don't think that's a problem, we can design the ground floor docking room as a slide room that can dock multiple gondolas as a buffer, and after getting the manned gondola off first, we can send these empty gondolas back to the parking rooms on different floors when we are free."

"I think it's better to make an arc between the slide rails at the bottom of the bottom, and the gondola comes down from this side, and then reaches the other side of the wheel through the slide rail, and uses the time difference between the wheels to rotate and hang it on the other side, so as to improve the efficiency of the gondola."

"This method is good, but this curved slide will take up a lot of space, and the operation efficiency is still a bit low."

"Then you can tell me another way?"

"I think it's a bit stressful to use one wheel to solve the upper and lower needs of four or six unit residents.

If we make two wheels with opposite rotations side by side, this problem will be much easier. ”

"With two side-by-side wheels? It only needs to increase the distance between the aisles, which is not much more expensive, but the capacity is equivalent to doubling.

But that still doesn't solve the problem of waiting, right? ”