Abstract:
Passenger or freight cabs 9 can roll on bridge rails 24, 25; 54, 55; 64, 65, between a pair of platforms such as an elevator car frame 19, a horizontal transport bogie 41, or a stationary platform 68. The bridge rails may move from a first position to a second position where they are parallel to, coaligned with and overlapping rails on one of the platforms so as to permit transferring a cab, either by individually rotating through corresponding axes passing through each rail, or by rotating a pair of such rails together about an axis passing between them.
Abstract:
An elevator car is provided with supporters by which individual holders for holding guide shoes are supported in rolling contact relation for limited movement toward and away from the associated guide rails and also rotational movement respectively. A friction member resiliently engages the shoe holder to apply a controlled frictional force to it.
Abstract:
A cab having a wheeled carriage fixed thereto is moved between rails on an elevator car frame and similar rails on a wheeled bogey. The ends of the rails are scarfed in a complimentary fashion so as to provide a temporary half-lap joint between the rails of the bogey and the rails of the car frame. Motion is provided by linear motors having active primaries disposed on the car frame and the bogey and passive secondaries disposed on the cab carriage. Motor control is in response to position signals provided by magnetostrictive linear displacement transducers. The cab carriage includes rollers on vertical axes which contact the insides of the rails for guidance. The cab carriage wheels and rollers are disposed in pairs separated sufficiently so that at least one roller and one wheel of each pair is in contact with a full rail as the carriage crosses the rail joints between the car frame and the bogey. Wheels coated with urethane reduce wheel noise and tapers at the ends of the rails provide smooth rail to rail transitions.
Abstract:
A stopper device for positioning a push car in front of the door of an elevator. The stopper device has a horizontally pivoting arm, a vertically pivoting arm and a pair of gears interlocking them with each other. The horizontally pivoting arm is locked by a stopper to its operative position and the stopper is kept in its operative position by a pushing member.