CLIMBING ELEVATOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accomplish increase in the number of stopping floors and in a using time for an elevator, to shorten a transferring time, and to facilitate a changeover to main equipment. SOLUTION: This elevator is provided with a sheave unit 2 arranged at the top of an elevator lifting passage 1, a supporting member arranged in the upper part of the sheave unit 2, a lifting device which is arranged in the supporting member so as to lift the sheave unit 2, a rope feeding device 9 arranged in the sheave unit 2, a temporary machine chamber 10 arranged on the outside of the elevator lifting passage 1, a hoisting device 11 arranged in the temporary machine chamber 10, a car 15, and a counterweight 16. Then, a rope 23 whose one end is fixed to the sheave unit 2 is connected to the rope feeding device 9 via the counterweight 16, a sheave 7 in the shave unit 2, the hoisting device 11, sheaves 6, 5 in the sheave unit 2, and the car 15.