Spiral elevators, used the old rope drum system, an electric motor instead of turning the steam engine are still at some elevators. But electric traction elevators are oftenno longer type. The elevators, elevator cab at one end of suspension ropes, the otherend is connected to a counterweight that balances the weight of the car. Suspensionropes, each placed in the top of the elevator space into a groove of a pulley or pulleysits on the individual. Electric motor turns a pulley ropes that move the employee.Thus, in one direction toward the elevator when the counterweight moves in the opposite direction.

Today's elevators, the car very fast down the emergence and the emergence of the alignment of the upper or the lower level and pass to prevent the alignment of theupper or the lower level is equipped with many safety regulating. Even if thesemechanisms fails, the upper floor through the lift hill is impossible to reach up to touch the devices. Because the cabinet against the weight reaches the top floor, welllocated at the foot sits on tampons so you can not draw up the ropes gevşediği morefor the cabinet.

Modern elevators in some of the piston-electric type. They work just like the oldhydraulic lifts, oil alone is used instead of water to prevent corrosion and freezing.Pressed into the cylinder of an electric oil pump electric valves emptied. This is not very high lifts in buildings, factories and aircraft carriers for the removal of heavy loads, especially with the booster stations, platforms, car-wash-lubrication is used.