The invention provides an 
elevator speed 
limiter. A 
rope wheel and a car synchronously move through a steel 
wire rope; a 
ratchet wheel limits a self rotating angle through a limiting device. When the car stops at a certain floor, a linkage device is started, so that the 
ratchet wheel is in linkage with the 
rope wheel; at the moment, once a car sliding phenomenon occurs, the limiting device firstly limits the rotating range of the 
ratchet wheel; at the moment, as the ratchet wheel is in linkage with the 
rope wheel, the rotation of the rope wheel is also limited, and the rope wheel and the car synchronously move through the steel 
wire rope arranged on the rope wheel in a tensioning manner; after the rotation of the rope wheel is limited, the steel 
wire rope of the speed 
limiter lifts and pulls a safety clamp operating 
handle, a safety clamp brakes the 
elevator car, and the motion of the car is also limited, so that the effect of controlling car sliding is realized. According to the 
elevator speed 
limiter, a phenomenon in the prior art that the car cannot stop due to the simple control of braking of a traction 
machine (as the secondary braking of the traction 
machine is not tight) can be effectively avoided.