Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the access of a plurality of microprocessors at a data line. The microprocessors are connected by interface components or blocks, logic switching circuits and bus drivers with two lines or conductors. An access request or demand of a processor initiates a signal change at the first line. This signal change causes the transformation of data which is specific to the processor into a delay or a priority signal, upon the occurrence of which there is accomplished a signal change of the second line. As a function thereof there appears at an input of the interface component a signal change which is indicative of the availability of the data line. Upon simultaneous occurrence of access requests or demands of a number of processors the signal change of the second line is brought about by that processor whose priority signal possesses the smallest delay.

Abstract: With this group control the allocation of elevator cabins or cars to existing storey or floor calls should be timewise optimized and newly arriving storey calls should be immediately allocated. A computer device provided for each elevator computates at each landing or storey, irrespective of whether or not there is present a storey or landing call, from the distance between the storey and the cabin position indicated by a selector, the intermediate cabin stops to be expected within this distance and the momentary cabin load a sum proportional to the time losses of waiting passengers. In this way the cabin load prevailing at the computation time point is corrected such that the expected number of passengers entering and exiting the cabin, derived from the previously ascertained number of entering and exiting passengers, is taken into account for the future intermediate cabin stops.

Abstract: With this group control the allocation of elevator cabins or cars to existing storey or floor calls should be timewise optimized and newly arriving storey calls should be immediately allocated. A computer device provided for each elevator computates at each landing or storey, irrespective of whether or not there is present a storey or landing call, from the distance between the storey and the cabin position indicated by a selector, the intermediate cabin stops to be expected within this distance and the momentary cabin load a sum proportional to the time losses of waiting passengers. In this way the cabin load prevailing at the computation time point is corrected such that the expected number of passengers entering and exiting the cabin, derived from the previously ascertained number of entering and exiting passengers is taken into account for the future intermediate cabin stops. Such loss time sum, also referred to as the servicing cost, is stored in a cost storage or memory provided for each elevator.

Abstract: Rotatably mounted rolls arranged behind one another in a support or carrier element of a roll guide shoe posess different diameters. In this way it is possible to reduce to a minimum the unquiet or jerky travel of a moved, guided portion of the elevator which is caused by flattening of the rolls as a result of longer standstill times of the roll guide shoe.

Abstract: With this start-up control apparatus it is intended to reduce the starting jerk at elevators resulting from superimposing the motor cut-on moment and load moment and to improve the starting comfort of the elevator passengers. The brake magnet of the electromechanical holding brake of the elevator is connected for this purpose with a regulation device, by means of which there can be linearly decreasingly controlled the braking force during the elevator's start-up, so that there can be obtained a linearly ascending start-up moment of the drive. The linear decrease of the braking force first appears following decay of the cut-on moment peak of the drive motor. This can be obtained by optimum correlation of the start-up time point of a reference value transmitter of the regulation device and the drive motor as well as the proportional part (P-part) of the reference value transmitter, whose transfer function approximately corresponds to the time behavior of a PI-regulator.

Abstract: A drive control for transportation systems, especially elevators or the like, improves the stopping accuracy of the elevator cabin at a storey or floor of the building. A reference value transmitter operated by a digital computer produces step-like successive travel curves and displacement path-reference values operatively associated with such travel curves and feedable to a regulation circuit. Connected with the reference value transmitter is a stop initiation device, which during initiating the stop or halting of the elevator, forms from a possible target path produced by the reference value transmitter and a target path corresponding to a target storey a target error.

Abstract: A shoe or friction brake having the brake levers thereof connected both at the pivotably mounted end and also at the end driven by a brake spring mutually independently of one another at the brake housing. The pivotably mounted end is connected with the brake housing by elements which have a resilient or spring action perpendicular to the direction of action of the brake spring. These resilient elements are in the form of plate springs and/or a leaf or blade spring. The bearing means for each brake lever is arranged between the plate springs. Each brake lever has operatively associated therewith a choke or reactance coil, and the choke yoke or the like is arranged at the bearing means and the choke core at the brake housing. With the brake levers located in their braking position the latter, when subjected to load, are movable perpendicular to the direction of action of the brake springs, so that the air gaps of the choke coils can be reduced or increased in size, as the case may be.

Abstract: A switching apparatus operatively associated with each elevator of an elevator group operated by means of a collective control and individual travel control serves the purpose, for instance in hospitals, of switching one or more elevators from one control mode to the other control mode. The switching apparatus comprises four series connected switching stages formed of digital logic or switching elements. By activating one of the key switches of the first switching stage there is initiated the switching operation to the relevant other operating mode, and there are generated signals which eliminate the elevator which is to be switched over from the storey call allocation. Upon arrival of an input information or signal which signals the operating state "free" of the elevator which is to be switched over, there is accomplished allocation to the desired operating mode by freeing the correlated door control by means of output signals produced in the second switching stage.

Abstract: An apparatus for placing in order the servicing sequence of storey calls of an elevator system, comprising storage elements for storing the storey calls, storage transmitter means for controlling the storage elements, a scanner for scanning the storage elements, and a respective further storage element operatively associated with each storey being serviced. Each such further storage element has a first input connected with the related storage element serving to store a storey call and its output is connected by means of a logic circuit with a blocking device blocking infed and stored storey calls during a servicing period corresponding to at least one revolution of the scanner. A second input of each such further storage element is connected with the output of a release device freeing the blocked storey calls after completion of a servicing period in order to accomplish storey servicing during the following servicing period.

Abstract: A damping body composed of two substantially parallel, oppositely situated support surfaces for supporting a machine mounting base or foundation frame and for contact with a machine pedestal or socket arrangement. To obtain a uniform damping of sound and vibrations and to achieve a certain leveling of the machine mounting base, the damping body comprises at least two substantially wedge-shaped partial bodies which, in their unloaded state, can be shifted relative to one another along parting surfaces which are not in parallelism with the support surfaces. The damping body may be particularly advantageously employed for mounting elevator drive machines or the like.

Abstract: A molding machine for fabricating boxless molds wherein the mold boxes or flasks for the mold halves are moved, upon arms of a turnstile or rotatable cross-shaped element, cyclically to various molding stations of the molding machine. Fabrication of a casting mold at the closing or assembly station is rendered possible in that, a support plate of a conveyor device for the further transport of the casting molds is structured as part of the closing or assembly station. An ejector punch, a support means for the mold boxes or flasks and an elevationally displaceable table are arranged such that a mold lower part and a mold upper part are successively ejected into the support plate for the purpose of forming the casting mold.

Abstract: An apparatus for selecting an elevator cabin at a transportation installation, especially an elevator system, for direct travel of an elevator group, controlled by means of a group control, possesses additional storey call transmitters and storey call storages. The storey call storages are connected with a call blocking device having infed thereto a first signal train or sequence produced during scanning of the storey call storages. The call blocking device possesses further inputs, to which there is infed information blocking already allocated calls, so that at its output there appears a second signal train or sequence no longer containing the allocated calls. This output is connected with a respective input of call allocation devices operatively associated with the elevators. The call allocation devices are operatively interconnected with one another by means of a switching circuit.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating boxless casting mold parts. During a first step the sand is pre-compacted in mold boxes or flasks by means of a pressure or compaction plate of a pressure or compaction device to form a casting mold part. Press or pressure punches are displaceably mounted in the pressure plate. By means of a pressurized fluid medium, introduced into a hollow chamber or space of the pressure or compaction device, the press or pressure punches are activated and, during a second step, cause a post-compaction of the casting mold part. There is thus produced an approximately uniform compaction of the casting mold part. The lower part of the pressure or compaction device is structured as the pressure or compaction plate serving for pre-compaction.

Abstract: A plate conveyor or moving walk, especially for transporting individuals, comprising plates or pallets arranged in succession in the direction of travel of the moving walk. These plates are connected with two essentially mutually parallely extending, endless drive chains. Traveling rolls enable the plate conveyor to revolve upon guide rails in one or a number of horizontal and/or inclined planes or portions. The drive chains are arranged along sides of the plates extending parallel to the direction of travel of the plate conveyor. Each chain link is connected by at least one attachment element with one of the plates.

Abstract: An apparatus for selecting a storey call at a transportation installation, especially an elevator system, which contains storey call storages and a scanning device which continuously scans the storey call storages and produces a signal sequence containing the stored storey calls, as well as possessing a selector which signals the location of the elevator cabin. Upon coincidence of the elevator cabin location and the scanner position there is produced a coincidence signal which, in conjunction with an information signal signalling the operating state of the elevator cabin, is delivered to a selector circuit. Both signals act by means of a first NOR-gate and a storage upon a second NOR-gate of the selector circuit. Storey call signals which have been selected from the signal sequence produced by the scanner device and ordered in accordance with the time sequence of their input are delivered to a further input of the second NOR-gate.

Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting control signals to a transportation installation, such as typically an elevator wherein a respective diode matrix codes the cabin and floor calls, and the outputs of which are connected by common call lines with the inputs of a call memory system. A coding device is provided for coding the elevator cabin position and comprises switches attached to the elevator cabin and actuation elements arranged in the cabin chute. An actuation element is provided for each floor change and is associated with the changing binary place of the code word associated with the floor. The switches are connected by means of a respective series connected diode of a coupling system with the outputs of the cabin diode matrix and by means of the call lines with the input of a cabin position memory.

Abstract: A burglary proof door, especially for a residence, comprising a frame formed of metal hollow sections or profiles and a door faced with coverings and assembled together from metal hollow sections or profiles. In its closed position the door is guided both at its hinge side and lock side throughout its entire height in substantially U-shaped guides provided at the frame. The door part guided at the lock side in the frame comprises two rails movable transversely with respect to the direction of opening of the door and extending over the entire door height. The hinge side outer edge of the door is bevelled or tapered throughout its entire height and the substantially U-shaped guide provided at the hinge sideframe part is accommodated to such shape.

Abstract: An apparatus for actuating the hoistway doors of an elevator, which comprises a coupling element fixedly arranged at the hoistway or elevator shaft door and a movable electromagnetically actuatable coupling element arranged at the elevator cabin door which, at the region of an elevator landing or storey can be brought into engagement with the fixed coupling element of the hoistway door. The movable coupling element arranged at the elevator cabin door comprises an entrainment member composed of discs arranged at essentially the same spacing from one another. The stationary or fixed coupling element mounted at the hoistway door comprises a comb having prongs which possess an essentially uniform spacing from one another, which spacing is dimensioned such that the discs of the entrainment member, during the coupling action, engage with play between the prongs of the comb.

Abstract: A safety circuit arrangement, especially for transportation systems such as elevators, comprising at least one switching circuit equipped with two digital logical elements, each arranged in a separate information channel and connected at its input side with anti-valent signal generating information transmitters and at its output side with a monitoring circuit monitoring the anti-valence of the output signals. A control line for switching-off the installation in the presence of equivalence. A logical element of the monitoring circuit which is connected at its output side with the control line exclusively comprises diodes and input side logical elements of such monitoring circuit and the monitored digital logical elements are connected with a testing circuit which, upon placing into operation the elevator, applies a test signal simulating a defect in succession to both monitored digital logical elements.

Abstract: An automatic adjustment apparatus for a friction brake containing at least two braking elements between which there is arranged a brake lining and which are pressed against one another in a braking position. At least one of the brake elements is adjustably arranged. There is provided a cylindrical portion having a shoulder, and disc-shaped adjustment elements are arranged upon the cylindrical portion to both sides of the shoulder. The disc-shaped adjustment elements are displaceable by means of the adjustable braking element which is movable relative to the shoulder upon wear of the brake lining. Upon such wear of the brake lining amounting to the thickness of an adjustment element or a predetermined fraction of such thickness, the adjustment element arranged directly at the shoulder upon the larger diameter part of the cylindrical portion is displaceable onto its smaller diameter part.