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| 20080277206 | Elevator Load Bearing Member Having a Conversion Coating on Tension Member - A load bearing member ( | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090166131 | Elevating Workshop Pit Platform - A pit platform ( | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090218174 | Pop-up lift pedestal for a television - The lift pedestal is used to raise and lower a television or video monitor between a retracted storage position and an extended viewing position. The lift pedestal can be used as a stand alone support device or incorporated into cabinetry or a furniture enclosure. The lift pedestal includes a stationary back plate and an extensible support plate to which the television or video monitor is mounted. A pair of cabinetry drawer slides allow vertical translational movement of the support plate relative to the back plate between the retracted storage position and the extended viewing position. The drawer slides are mounted between angled sides of the back plate and support plate. The lift pedestal is actuated by a gas prop mounted to a third drawer slide. A cable and pulley operate in conjunction with the gas prop to increase the effective travel of the gas prop piston. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100000823 | ASSEMBLY FOR ROPING AN ELEVATOR - An assembly for controlling a vertically extending member includes a device ( | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100018809 | Elevator arrangement, method and safety structure - An elevator arrangement, comprising at least one elevator shaft, a working platform, elevator car or equivalent arranged to move in the elevator shaft, a power source for moving the said working platform or equivalent e.g. by means of ropes, chains, belts or equivalent, characterized in that the vertical range of movement of the said working platform or equivalent in the elevator shaft has been temporarily delimited in such manner that its movement can only take place in a section of the elevator shaft, by means of a structure ( | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100038182 | ELEVATOR APPARATUS WITH NO MACHINE ROOM - The invention relates to an elevator apparatus with no machine room, including a drive unit ( | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100084223 | ELEVATOR LOAD BEARING ASSEMBLY HAVING AN INITIAL FACTOR OF SAFETY BASED UPON A DESIRED LIFE OF SERVICE - A load bearing assembly ( | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100096220 | STACKABLE FRAME DUMBWAITER - A dumbwaiter used in building structures that have a structural vertical shaft where lower and upper with one or more middle frame assemblies are mounted against an interior wall defining a continuous track inside said through opening. A motor with controls is housed within the lower frame assembly and includes a driving sprocket. The upper frame assembly includes a driven sprocket and a chain trained over them is moved. A trolley or carrier slidably runs over track and rails continuously disposed within the frame assemblies and engage to the chain for vertical movement between two extreme positions. The motor is controlled with remotely positioned inputs either through wire or wirelessly. Safety sensors interrupt the output signal to the motor if certain events occur. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100133046 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM, SUSPENSION ELEMENT FOR AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A SUSPENSION ELEMENT - An elevator system with a car or platform to transport passengers and/or goods as well as with a counterweight, which are arranged as traversable or movable along a travel path, and which are coupled and/or with a drive by a suspension element interrelating their motion. The suspension element is guided and/or driven by a traction sheave and/or a drive shaft and/or a deflecting pulley. The suspension element is sheathed and/or belt-type, with a first layer made of a first plasticizable and/or elastomeric material, containing a first exterior surface, and with at least one tension member—rope-type, tissue-type, or comprising a multitude of partial elements—that is embedded in the first layer of the suspension element. A manufacturing procedure for one of the suspension elements is provided. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100140022 | ELEVATOR BELT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH AN ELEVATOR BELT, AND ELEVATOR SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A BELT - An elevator belt comprising a belt body made of a first material, a reinforcement arrangement having at least one reinforcement provided on the belt body, and a tube arrangement made of a second material having at least one tube, the at least one reinforcement of the reinforcement arrangement being provided in a tube of the tube arrangement. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100236869 | ELEVATOR LOAD BEARING MEMBER - A load bearing member ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100276231 | LIFTING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a lifting apparatus of a type which can be used to allow movement of goods to and from and between first and second goods storage areas. The apparatus is located in a space between openings into both of said storage areas and includes a platform which can be raised in the vertical plane so as to allow differences in height between floors of the respective goods storage areas to be taken into account such that for example goods can be moved onto the platform of the lifting apparatus from a first floor height on a first goods storage area to a floor of a second goods storage area at a different height. The lifting apparatus can be used to move goods to and from a floor of a goods storage area which is at the similar height to a support surface on which the other of the goods storage areas is located, with the other of the goods storage areas typically being a vehicle trailer. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110088981 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A SUPPORT BELT FOR AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - A process for producing a support belt for an elevator system includes steps of: placing at least one cable-shaped tension support in position; embedding the tension support in a first belt layer made from a first plasticizable material to produce a partial belt having a first outer surface and a surface which forms a connecting plane, wherein parts of the tension support project out of the connecting plane and at least parts of the projecting portion of the tension support are covered by the first plasticizable material; and integrally forming a second belt layer made from a second plasticizable material on the connecting surface of the partial belt and the projecting portions of the tension support so as to produce a support belt having the first outer surface on the side of the first belt layer and a second outer surface on the side of the second belt layer. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110100759 | CORD AND POLYMER JACKET ASSEMBLY HAVING A FLAME RETARDANT IN THE POLYMER JACKET MATERIAL - An exemplary assembly includes at least one elongated tension member. A jacket covers at least some of the tension member. The jacket comprises a polymer material. The assembly includes a flame retardant selected from a group consisting of a halogen-free melamine based intumescent or a filled polymer having a nanoscale filler chemically bonded to a matrix phase. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110220438 | LOAD SUPPORTING BELT - A supporting belt for a transport device, such as an elevator system, includes at least one stranded wire made of an electrically conducting material for absorbing the forces absorbed by the supporting belt and an electrically insulating jacket that encloses the wire. In order to determine the state of the wire, the wire can be contacted by a contact element securely and reliably and in an exact manner. To achieve this, the jacket is at least partially removed in the area of an opening of the supporting belt and the wire is at least partially exposed in the area of the opening. The wire thus does not include a jacket substantially perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis formed by a center point of a cross-section of the wire. The wire can be contacted by a contact element without the jacket being pierced. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110240408 | METHOD OF MAKING AN ELEVATOR BELT - An exemplary method of making a load bearing elevator traction belt includes applying individual coatings of a jacket material to each of a plurality of tension members such that each tension member is individually coated separately from the other tension members. A portion of the individual coatings are joined together to secure the tension members into a desired alignment and to form a single jacket that establishes a geometry of the belt. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110247902 | SUPPORT ELEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELEVATORS - A support element system, particularly for elevators, has at least one support element having two load-bearing tensile carriers which are arranged horizontally adjacent to one another and which are enclosed in a common elastomeric casing separating the two tensile carriers. The tensile carriers respectively have an opposite direction of wrap. The system has a drive pulley for transmission of a drive force to the at least one support element, wherein the drive pulley has a contoured traction surface with two support surfaces, which are provided for transmission of the drive force and which co-operate with the support element. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110266096 | ELEVATOR FOR WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS - The present disclosure relates to a detachable elevator cabin adapted to be used in a wind energy system, the detachable elevator cabin being adapted to interact with an installed system of an elevator system of a wind energy system and being adapted to be lifted within the tower of the wind energy system, with the installed system being permanently installed in the wind energy system. Further, a wind energy system is provided that includes an installed part of an elevator system, the installed part being permanently installed at the wind energy system and being adapted to temporarily interact with a detachable elevator cabin in order to lifted the detachable elevator cabin. Further, a system of a detachable part and an installed part of a wind energy system and a method of reaching the nacelle during for maintenance is provided. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120090924 | CONTACTING DEVICE - A contacting device for electrically contacting tensile carriers of a suspension in an elevator system includes a housing having a recess in which an exposed segment of the suspension can be received so that the housing at least partially encloses the exposed segment of the suspension. Raised areas and recesses are alternatingly disposed on an inner side of the housing, wherein a raised area and a recess face each other in a state of use. At least one contact element is disposed in a recess of the housing, wherein the at least one raised area can be pressed against a tensile carrier of the suspension, such that the tensile carrier is brought into electrical contact with the contact element. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120138391 | ELEVATOR INSTALLATION WITH A SOUND PICK-UP - An elevator installation includes a cage, a counterweight which balances the cage and a supporting and/or drive means at which the cage and the counterweight are suspended. The elevator installation has a sound pick-up designed for detecting solid-borne sound generated at the counterweight. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120325590 | ELEVATOR - Elevator, which comprises at least an elevator car and means for moving the elevator car, preferably along guide rails, and an overspeed governor arrangement, which comprises an overspeed governor rope, which moves according to the movement of the elevator car, and which overspeed governor rope is connected to a brake arrangement that is in connection with the elevator car such that with the overspeed governor rope force can be transmitted to the brake arrangement for shifting the brake comprised in the brake arrangement into a braking position. The rope comprises a power transmission part or a plurality of power transmission parts, for transmitting force in the longitudinal direction of the rope, which power transmission part is essentially fully of non-metallic material. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130048431 | ELEVATOR WITH COMPENSATING DEVICE - A compensating means is guided between an elevator cage and a counterweight on the counterweight side by a guide device and monitored by a monitoring device. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130048432 | ELEVATOR - Elevator, which includes at least an elevator car and a device for moving the elevator car, preferably along guide rails, and a counterweight, and one or more ropes, which rope connects the elevator car and the counterweight and is separate from the supporting function and passes around a diverting pulley mounted on the bottom end of the elevator hoistway. The rope comprises a power transmission part or a plurality of power transmission parts, for transmitting power in the longitudinal direction of the rope, which power transmission part is essentially fully of non-metallic material. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130062146 | Elevator System Belt Having Connecting Devices Attached Thereto - An assembly comprising (a) a belt, which includes a plurality of wire cords extending lengthwise of the belt with spaces therebetween, and includes a coating of the cords extending into the spaces between the cords, said belt being configured for use in an elevator system as a suspension belt for a car and a counterweight, or being configured for use in an elevator system as a drive belt for a car or for a counterweight, or being configured for use in an elevator system as a combined suspension and drive belt for a car and a counterweight; (b) a first connecting device including a first number of cord contacting elements providing electrical connections contacting element-to-cord; and (c) a second connecting device, including a second number of cord contacting elements providing electrical connections contacting element-to-cord, and including at least two conductive elements, each being electrically connected to a respective one of the cord contacting elements, the conductive elements being provided for making electrical connections to a belt monitoring unit which monitors the proper condition of the cords on the basis of electrical signals passed through the cords; (d) wherein at least one of the first and second connecting devices includes at least one bridge type cord contacting element, which extends into the gap between two cords and provides electrical connection to both cords, thereby electrically connecting the two cords. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130118838 | METHOD AND ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT - A method of manufacturing an elevator includes installing a movable supporting platform and an elevator car in the elevator hoistway; taking the elevator car into use to serve passengers and/or to transport goods; removing the elevator car from use; changing the service range of the elevator car to reach higher up in the elevator hoistway by lifting the supporting platform higher up in the elevator hoistway; and taking the elevator car back into use. The elevator is reeved to include construction-time hoisting roping, which includes one or more ropes, the longitudinal power transmission capacity of which is based at least essentially on non-metallic fibers in the longitudinal direction of the rope. In the method, guide rails to be fixed with guide rail brackets can additionally be installed by the aid of an installation device. An elevator arrangement can be used to perform the method. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130220738 | EXTENDED ROLLER GUIDES - The invention relates to an elevator having a car and guide rails along which the car is guided along a hoistway between landings of the elevator, the car comprising: a frame, upper and lower guide elements, which are mounted to said frame at a vertical distance from each other, and exactly one elevator cabin with a cabin floor, in which elevator the cabin is—in travel direction of the car—movably connected to the frame between an uppermost and a lowermost position. By this means a high travel comfort can be obtained with economic space usage at the top and bottom of the hoistway. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130248295 | ELEVATOR - Elevator in which hoisting roping pass under first and second diverting pulleys; and which suspension means crosses the line between the guide rails; and which first and second diverting pulley are mounted on the suspension means such that they are disposed on a first side and a second side, said sides being opposite, of the line between the guide rails. The frame of the elevator car is mounted on a suspension means for being supported by the first suspension point and the second suspension point comprised in the suspension means, which first suspension point and second suspension point are at a horizontal distance from each other and on opposite sides to each other of a line between the first and second diverting pulley; and that said first and second suspension point are on a line between the guide rails or on a line parallel with it. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130248296 | ELEVATOR INSTALLATION WITH CAR AND COUNTERWEIGHT - An elevator installation includes a car, a counterweight and safeties which are fitted to the car and the counterweight. The car contains an electrically controlled device for actuating and optionally resetting the safety and the counterweight also contains an electrically controlled device with a safety, or the safety of the counterweight is actuated by a slack-line release. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130270042 | DETERMINING STATES OF ELEVATOR COMPONENTS - A state of at least one support component in an elevator installation can be determined by; determining a characteristic value of the support component, wherein the support component supports a cage and is guided over at least one roller; determining a characteristic value of a reference element, wherein the reference element does not support a cage, wherein the support component and the reference element each comprise at least one tensile carrier and a casing, wherein the at least one tensile carrier is respectively arranged substantially in the casing; determining the state of the support component with consideration of the determined characteristic value of the support component and the determined characteristic value of the reference element. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130270043 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM BELT - A belt for suspending and/or driving an elevator car includes a plurality of wires arranged into one or more cords and a jacket substantially retaining the one or more cords. Each cord includes a plurality of wires arranged around at least one non load-bearing core. An elevator system includes an elevator car and one or more sheaves. One or more belts are operably connected to the car and interactive with the one or more sheaves for suspending and/or driving the elevator car. Each belt of the one or more belts includes a plurality of wires arranged into one or more cords and a jacket substantially retaining the one or more cords. Each cord includes a plurality of wires arranged around at least one non load-bearing core. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130277152 | FRICTIONAL DAMPER FOR REDUCING ELEVATOR CAR MOVEMENT - An exemplary device for use in an elevator system includes at least one friction member that is selectively moveable into a damping position in which the friction member is useful to damp movement of an elevator car associated with the device. A solenoid actuator has an armature that is situated for vertical movement. The armature moves upward when the solenoid is energized to move the friction member into the damping position. The armature mass urges the armature in a downward vertical direction causing the friction member to move out of the damping position when the solenoid is not energized. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140008153 | ELEVATOR LOAD BEARING MEMBER - A load bearing member for supporting an elevator car has a plurality of tension members that bear the weight of the elevator car. The plurality of tension members extends along a length. An outer cover at least partially covers the plurality of tension members and has a first surface and a second surface. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140182975 | ROPE TERMINAL ASSEMBLY AND AN ELEVATOR - A rope terminal assembly of an elevator fixing an elevator rope to a fixing base such as an elevator unit, the elevator being suitable for transporting passengers and/or goods, includes an elevator rope, whose width is larger than its thickness in a rope transverse direction, with at least one end having an end face, a rope end block attached to the rope end, one or more wedge elements, a wedge housing, where the terminal assembly includes a rope gap through which the elevator rope passes and the wedge element is arranged to wedge between the rope and the wedge housing thus locking the elevator rope in the gap, and the rope end block is attached on the end face side of the elevator rope with respect to the wedge element, and an elevator. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140231179 | ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD - An elevator arrangement, includes an elevator hoistway, an elevator car, which is arranged to travel in the elevator hoistway, a counterweight, a movable supporting platform above the elevator car, suspension roping, which is connected to the elevator car and to the counterweight, and supports them while suspended from the supporting platform, and a hoisting machine, which includes a device configured to move the roping. The elevator arrangement also includes a hoisting machine and traction roping that are separate from the supporting platform, which hoisting machine is in power transmission connection via the traction roping with the elevator car and with the counterweight. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140246274 | ECCENTRICALLY SUSPENDED ELEVATOR CAR - An elevator installation has at least one elevator car and at least one counterweight which are displaced in opposing directions along at least one guide track in an elevator shaft by a supporting and driving apparatus that is guided by a drive pulley of a drive. The supporting and driving apparatus is fastened directly to the elevator car eccentrically with respect to a center of gravity of the elevator car so that a tilting or load moment results thereby, wherein the tilting or load moment is compensated by a compensation device. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140299419 | ELEVATOR - The invention refers to an elevator comprising an elevator car and a suspension arrangement for suspending and/or moving an elevator car, which suspension arrangement comprises at least one suspension member, whereby at least one suspension member component is provided which component is to be applied to the suspension member for affecting the physical properties of the suspension member during the operation of the elevator. According to the invention the suspension member component applied to the suspension member comprises an component identifier which is an addition to the suspension member component which component identifier is configured to be identified visibly or via additional tools. The invention allows the unambiguous identification of the suspension member component and also the distribution of the component on the suspension member surface. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140318902 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A ROPE, A ROPE AND AN ELEVATOR - A method for manufacturing a rope includes providing at least one pre-manufactured elongated load bearing member for the rope and at least one pre-manufactured elongated surface part for the rope, guiding together said at least one pre-manufactured elongated load bearing member and said at least one pre-manufactured elongated surface part such that their sides lean against each other, and fixing said at least one pre-manufactured elongated load bearing member and said at least one pre-manufactured elongated surface part to each other. A rope obtained with the method, and an elevator including the rope obtained with the method are also disclosed. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140367205 | METHOD AND ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT - A method in the manufacture of an elevator, in which is formed an elevator arrangement, which includes an elevator hoistway, at least one elevator unit to be moved in the elevator hoistway, said unit(s) including at least an elevator car, a movable supporting structure in the elevator hoistway above the elevator car, roping suspended from the supporting structure for supporting the aforementioned at least one elevator unit to be moved, in which method the following steps are performed: a) the elevator car is used to transport passengers and/or freight, after which b) the supporting structure is lifted in the elevator hoistway, after which c) the elevator car is used to transport passengers and/or freight. In the method, between steps a) and c), additionally a step x) is performed, in which the section of the roping is lifted, separately from the lifting of the supporting structure, higher up in the elevator hoistway. An elevator arrangement includes a movable diverting pulley separate from the supporting structure, supported by which diverting pulley the section of roping is arranged to be suspended. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150101888 | ROPE FOR A HOISTING DEVICE AND ELEVATOR - A rope for a hoisting device, which rope is belt-shaped and includes several load bearing members spaced apart in the width direction of the belt-shaped rope and embedded in a common coating, each of the load bearing members including several load bearing strings twisted together. The load bearing strings are made of composite material including reinforcing fibers embedded in polymer matrix. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160083223 | LIFT SYSTEM - The invention concerns a lift system with at least one lift car able to ride in a lift shaft, while a travelling cable is provided, having a first end at the lift car side and a second end at the shaft side, wherein the weight force of the travelling cable is at least partially channelled into a traction means or balancing means engaging with the lift car | 03-24-2016 |
| 20190144241 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM BELT | 05-16-2019 |
